<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 26-82. - Definitions.</div>
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               In this article:
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm administrator</span> means a person or persons designated by the county manager to administer, control
               and review alarm applications, permits and alarm dispatch requests.
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm business</span> means the business, by an individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of
               selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving,
               installing or monitoring an alarm system in an alarm site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm dispatch request</span> means a notification to the law enforcement, fire or emergency medical dispatch center
               by the alarm business that an alarm, either manual or automatic has been activated
               at a particular alarm site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm review authority</span> shall mean the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners.
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm site</span> means a single premises or location served by an alarm system or systems. Each tenancy,
               if served by a separate alarm system in a multi-tenant building or complex shall be
               considered a separate alarm site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Alarm system</span> means a device or series of devices, including, but not limited to, systems interconnected
               with hard wires or with radio frequency signals, which are designed to discourage
               or detect crime, detect smoke or fire, or summons emergency medical assistance by
               emitting or transmitting a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating
               an alarm condition. Alarm system does not include:
               
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                  (1)
                  
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                  An alarm installed on a vehicle unless the vehicle is permanently located at a site;
                  or
                  
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                  (2)
                  
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                  An alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that does not have a
                  sounding device which can be heard on the exterior of the alarm site.
                  
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               <span class="ital">Alarm user</span> means any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity who (which) uses
               an alarm system at its alarm site.
               
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               <span class="ital">Chief</span> means the duly appointed chief of a police or fire department.
               
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               <span class="ital">Conversion</span> means the transaction or process by which one alarm business begins monitoring of
               an alarm system previously monitored by another alarm business.
               
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               <span class="ital">False alarm dispatch</span> means an alarm dispatch request to the dispatch center, when the appropriate responding
               official (law enforcement officer, emergency medical personnel or fire department
               personnel) finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense,
               fire emergency or medical emergency after having completed a timely investigation
               of the alarm site. An alarm dispatch request which is canceled by the alarm business
               or the alarm user prior to the time the responding agency representatives reach the
               alarm site shall not be considered a false alarm dispatch.
               
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               <span class="ital">Holdup alarm</span> means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended
               to signal a robbery in progress.
               
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               <span class="ital">Keypad</span> means a device that allows control of an alarm system by the manual entering of a
               coded sequence of numbers or letters.
               
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               <span class="ital">Monitoring</span> means the process by which an alarm business receives signals from alarm systems
               and relays an alarm dispatch request to the appropriate dispatch center for the purpose
               of summoning a law enforcement, fire or emergency medical response to the alarm site.
               
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               <span class="ital">One plus duress alarm</span> means the manual activation of a silent alarm signal by entering at a keypad a code
               that adds one to the last digit of the normal arm/disarm code (normal code = 1234
               one plus duress code = 1235).
               
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               <span class="ital">Other responsible department head</span> means the department head of a civilian operated emergency dispatch center.
               
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               <span class="ital">Person</span> means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization or similar
               entity.
               
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               <span class="ital">Takeover</span> means the transaction or process by which an alarm user takes over control of an
               existing alarm system which was previously controlled by another alarm user.
               
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               <span class="ital">Twelve-month period</span> shall be based on calendar months, which period shall run from the occurrence of
               the first false alarm.
               
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               <span class="ital">Verify</span> means an attempt, by the alarm business, or its representative, to contact the alarm
               site by telephonic or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a
               person is made, before requesting a dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary
               alarm dispatch request.
               
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               (Ord. No. 1998-16, Â§ 2, 12-21-98)
               
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