For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows:
A communication by any source, means or entity to the Green Tree Police Department, the Green Tree Volunteer Fire Company or the Green Tree emergency medical service, or to any dispatching service providing communication services to the Borough of Green Tree, indicating, alerting or attempting to advise of a crime, fire or other emergency situation warranting, requesting or directing that immediate action be taken by the Green Tree Police Department, the Green Tree Volunteer Fire Company and/or any medical rescue team or emergency services provided by the Borough of Green Tree, hereinafter collectively referred to as "providers of emergency services."
An electrical or electronic device designed to:
Transmit automatically an alarm, by wire, telephone, radio or other means, directly to a person or other entity who or which is instructed or requested to notify the Green Tree Police Department, the Green Tree Volunteer Fire Company, the Green Tree emergency medical service or any dispatch center providing such communication to the Borough of Green Tree or any medical rescue or paramedic teams of the Borough of Green Tree; or
Sound a general alarm to alert passersby or neighbors of an emergency situation, the purpose and intent of which is to bring the need for emergency services to the general populace and/or to notify any providers of emergency services in the Borough of Green Tree.
An electrical or electronic device which automatically transmits a digital message to the digital receiver of an entity whose purpose it is to receive an alarm and to transmit the same or to otherwise notify the providers of emergency services of the Borough of Green Tree of an emergency situation.
Any agency, entity or other authority designated by the Borough of Green Tree to receive and provide emergency communication services for the Borough of Green Tree.
The response of any or all providers of emergency services resulting from the activation of an alarm and/or alarm device when a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action has not, in fact, occurred. "False alarm" shall include all alarm signal activation incidents in which investigation by the appropriate emergency provider department reveals no evidence of the existence of an emergency condition or situation. However, those alarm signals that an investigation reveals to have been triggered by physical damage to the protected premises as a result of a hurricane, tornado, earthquake or other natural phenomena are excluded from the definition of "false alarm." The definition of "false alarm" shall, however, include any alarm generated, caused or otherwise contributed to by a malfunction of the alarm device.
An alarm device designed to transmit an alarm to a person or other entity whose purpose and intent is to notify any provider of emergency services in the Borough of Green Tree or any dispatch center providing communication services to the Borough of Green Tree, or otherwise to sound a general alarm to alert passersby or neighbors, as set forth in Subsection B in the definition of "alarm device" hereof.
An alarm resulting from the intentional activation of an alarm device by an individual or other entity under circumstances where the individual or other entity had or has no reasonable basis to believe that a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action by the providers of emergency services in the Borough of Green Tree has occurred or is in the process of occurring.
A device designed to transmit automatically a recorded message over telephone lines to an emergency dispatch center or by indirect alarm device to an emergency dispatch center.