For the purpose of this Chapter the following terms phrases, words, and their derivations shall have the meanings hereafter respectively ascribed:
"Alarm agent" shall mean any person employed or hired by an alarm business and whose duties include altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, or servicing an alarm system or responding to same.
"Alarm business" shall mean any activity carried on by any person operating for any consideration which includes in the sale and installation, maintenance, alteration or servicing of alarm systems or which responds to such alarm systems.
"Alarm system" shall mean any assembly of equipment and devices arranged to signal the presence of any condition upon premises within the City of San Leandro to which an emergency response by public safety personnel would commonly occur. The term "alarm system" shall include any equipment which is designed to detect an emergency or which is designed to be activated by a person to report to an emergency.
"Alarm user" shall mean any person who owns, operates or manages or is entitled to possession or any premises in the City of San Leandro on which an alarm system has been installed and operates.
"Audible alarm" shall mean any alarm system, which, when activated, is capable of being heard within the premises and the immediate area thereof.
"Automatic dialing system" shall mean any alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message indicating the existence of a condition upon premises within the City to which an emergency response by public safety personnel would commonly occur.
"Central station" shall mean an office to which monitored alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, and where personnel may be maintained continuously to respond to and investigate signals, and which signaling devices are listed by Underwriters' Laboratory.
"False alarm" shall mean any improper or accidental activation of an alarm system, including, but not limited to, activation due to negligent acts or omissions or to equipment malfunction.
"Monitored alarm system" shall mean an alarm signaling system which, when activated by an alarm device, transmits a signal to a central station where appropriate action is taken to investigate and respond to the signal.