Title 5 BUSINESS REGULATIONS AND LICENSES*
Chapter 5.36 PRIVATE EMERGENCY ALARM SYSTEMS
5.36.020 Definitions.
(a) “Alarm agent” means any person who is employed by an alarm
business either directly or indirectly, whose duties include selling,
maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or
installing on or in any building, structure, facility or grounds any alarm
system.
(b) “Alarm business” means any individual, partnership,
corporation or other entity who in addition to selling alarm systems, also
leases, maintains, services, repairs, alters, replaces, moves or installs any
alarm system or causes to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired,
altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building,
structure, facility or grounds.
(c) “Alarm system” means any
device used for the detection of an unauthorized entry or attempted entry into a
building, structure, facility or grounds, or for alerting others of the
commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, facility or grounds,
which when activated causes notification to be made directly or indirectly to
the Speedway police department.
For the purposes of this chapter, an alarm
system shall not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a motor
vehicle;
(2) An alarm designed so that the Speedway police department is not
notified until after the occupant, an agent of the owner or lessee, or an agent
of an alarm system business has checked the alarm site and determined that the
alarm was the result of criminal activity of the kind for which the alarm system
was designed to give notice;
(3) An alarm which signals or alerts only the
occupants of the premises protected by the alarm system;
(4) An alarm
installed upon premises occupied by the United States, the state, or any
political subdivision thereof;
(d) “Automatic telephone dialing
device” means any device connected to an alarm system which automatically
sends a prerecorded message or coded signal to a law enforcement agency
indicating the activation of the alarm system.
(e) “False alarm”
means an alarm eliciting a police response when the situation does not require
police services. For the purposes of this chapter, this does not include alarms
triggered by severe atmospheric conditions or other circumstances not reasonably
under the control of the alarm user, installer or
maintainer.
(f) “Permit holder” means the individual,
corporation, partnership or other legal entity to whom an alarm system permit is
issued. (Ord. 777 § 2, 1990).
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