The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum
standards and regulations for the use of privately installed burglary,
robbery and fire alarm systems, to require registrations, to establish
fines and to create an administrative apparatus.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business operated by a person for a profit, which engages
in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing,
replacing, selling, servicing, monitoring or responding to a fire,
burglar or holdup alarm system or which causes any of these activities
to take place. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this chapter,
the term "alarm business" shall not include a developer or homeowner
who sells an alarm system as part of a sale or transfer of a residential
dwelling unit.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm-activating equipment which provides warning
of burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or like peril.
ALARM SYSTEM
A.
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 presence of a hazard requiring urgent
attention and to which police and/or firefighters are expected to
respond. In this chapter, the term "alarm system" shall include but
not be limited to:
(4)
MANUAL HOLDUP ALARM SYSTEMAn alarm system in which the signal transmission is initiated by the direct action of the person attacked or by an observer of an attack.
(5)
FIRE ALARM SYSTEMSAlarm systems which monitor temperature, humidity or any other condition of fire-hazard nature and not directly related to the detection of any unauthorized intrusion into a premises or an attempted robbery at a premises.
B.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in
this chapter, the term "alarm system" shall not include self-contained
battery- or electrically-powered smoke-detector units which give out
an audible signal.
ALARM USER
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind in possession or control of any
building, structure or facility wherein an alarm device or system
is maintained.
FALSE ALARM
An alarm signal eliciting a response by police and/or firefighters
when a situation requiring a response by police and/or firefighters
does not in fact exist.