Within this chapter, the following terms, phrases and words and their
derivations have the means given herein.
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business in which the owners or employees engage in the
activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing,
replacing, selling, or servicing alarm systems.
ALARM SYSTEM
An assembly of equipment and devices or single device such
as a solid state unit which relays and signals the presence of a hazard
requiring urgent attention and to which the Police or Fire Department
is expected to respond. Excluded from this definition and from the
coverage of this chapter are alarm systems used to alert or signal
persons within the premises in which the alarm system is located of
an attempted, unauthorized intrusion or holdup attempt or fire.
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 dispatch center of the Police or
Fire Department.
CENTRAL STATION
An office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling
devices are connected where operators supervise the circuits.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure,
malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the owner
or lessee of an alarm system or of their employees or agents or other
undetermined cause. False alarm does not include alarms caused by
tornadoes or other violent climatic conditions.
SUBSCRIBER
A person who buys or leases or otherwise obtains an alarm
system and thereafter contracts with or hires an alarm business to
monitor and/or service the alarm system.