For
the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and
their derivations shall have the meanings given herein.
ALARM AGENT
Any person employed by an alarm business whose duties include
the altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing,
selling, servicing, responding to or causing others to respond to
an alarm device.
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business operated by an individual, partnership, corporation
or other entity which engages in the activity of selling, leasing,
maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or
installing any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.
ALARM SYSTEM
An assembly of equipment and devices or a single device,
such as a solid-state unit which plugs directly into a one-hundred-ten-volt
AC line, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or
other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police, fire
or ambulance personnel are expected to respond. In this chapter, the
term "alarm system" shall include the terms "automatic holdup alarm
systems," "burglar alarm systems," "holdup alarm systems," "fire alarm
systems" and "manual holdup alarm systems," as those terms are hereinafter
defined.
ALARM USER
Any person on whose premises an alarm system in maintained
within the Township of Lower Moreland, except for alarm systems on
motor vehicles or proprietary systems. If, however, an alarm system
on a motor vehicle is connected with an alarm system at a premises,
other than a proprietary system, the person using such system is an
"alarm user." Also excluded from this definition and from the coverage
of this chapter are persons who use alarm systems to alert or signal
a person within the premises in which the alarm system is located
of an attempted unauthorized intrusion or holdup attempt. If such
a system, however, employs an audible signal emitting sounds or a
flashing light or beacon designed to signal persons outside the premises,
such system shall be within the definition of "alarm system" and shall
be subject to this chapter.
ANNUNCIATOR
The instrumentation of an alarm console at the receiving
terminal of a signal line which, through both visual and audible signals,
shows when an alarm device at a particular location has been activated,
or it may also indicate line trouble.
ANSWERING SERVICE
A telephone answering service providing, among its services,
the service of receiving, on a continuous basis through trained employees,
emergency signals from alarm systems and thereafter immediately relaying
the message by live voice to the communication center of the Police
Department or Fire Department.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE
An alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone
lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message
or coded signal indicating the existence of the emergency situation
that the alarm system is designed to detect.
CENTRAL STATION
A location which accepts recorded messages from automatic
protected devices at a central station owned and operated privately
for customers by a person, firm or corporation which maintains supervisors
and trained operators and guards in attendance at all times that have
the duty to take appropriate action upon receipt of a signal or message,
including the relaying of messages by designated or direct trunk line
to the communications center of the Police or Fire Department.
FIRE ALARM
An alarm system which signals a fire, smoke or overheating
condition in the area protected by the system.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
The publicly supported Fire Department of Lower Moreland
Township.
FIRE MARSHAL
The duly authorized Fire Marshal of Lower Moreland Township
or his designated representative.
INTERCONNECT
To connect an alarm system to a voice-grade telephone line,
either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a standard
telephone, for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit
an emergency message upon the activation of the alarm system.
INTERMEDIARY
A central station protective system or an answering device
as herein defined.
LOCAL ALARM SYSTEM
A signaling system which, when activated, causes an audible
and/or visual signaling device to be activated in or on the premises
within which the system is installed.
PERMIT YEAR
From January 1 to December 31 of any calendar year.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
POLICE CHIEF
The Chief of the Police Department of Lower Moreland Township
or his designated representative.
PRIMARY TRUNK LINE
A telephone line leading directly into the control center
of the Police Department that is for the purpose of handling emergency
calls on a person-to-person basis.
PROPRIETARY SYSTEM
An alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory
signals at a control center located within the protected premises,
the control center being under the supervision of the proprietor of
the protected premises.
SIGNAL LINE
The transmission line through which the signal passes from
one of the elements of the signal transmission to another.
SPECIAL TRUNK LINE
A telephone line leading into the communication center of
the Police Department and having the primary purpose of handling emergency
signals or messages originating either directly or through a central
location from automatic dialing devices.
SUBSCRIBER
A person who buys and/or leases or otherwise obtains an alarm
signaling system and thereafter contracts with or hires an alarm business
to monitor and/or service the alarm device.
TELEPHONE COMPANY
A utility or company that furnishes telephone services to
the Township of Lower Moreland.