As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business operated by a person, partnership, corporation, etc.,
for profit, which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing,
maintaining, repairing, replacing, servicing or responding to fire or burglar
alarm systems, or which causes any of these activities to take place. Excluded
from this definition, however, are retail establishments which only sell alarm
systems over the counter.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm-activating equipment which provides warning of
burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or like peril causing potential for harm
to life or property.
ALARM SYSTEM
The installation in one or more buildings of one or more alarm devices
for the express purpose of giving visual, audible and/or electronic warning,
as connection to a monitoring facility, of an emergency such as burglary,
intrusion, fire, flood or like peril.
ALARM USER
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company
or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility
wherein an alarm device is operated.
FALSE ALARM
An alarm signal eliciting a response by police or fire fighters or
other public officials when a situation requiring a response by police or
fire fighters or other public officials does not in fact exist (but excluding
an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature, such as, but not limited
to, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes or other extraordinary circumstances
not reasonably subject to control by the alarm business or alarm user).
INDEPENDENT SMOKE/FIRE DETECTOR
A device giving an audible alarm indicating smoke and/or fire within
a structure and not connected to an alarm system or to any external warning
device.
All information submitted in compliance with this chapter shall be held
in the strictest confidence and shall be deemed a record exempt from public
disclosure pursuant to state statute. Any violation of confidentially shall
be deemed a violation of this section.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any alarm system installed on property occupied by any Township office or to an independent smoke/fire detector as defined in §
62-1 nor to any medical alert system.