<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 28-67. - Definitions.</div>
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               [The following words, terms, and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:]
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               <span class="ital">Alarm administrator</span> means a person or persons designated by the governing authority to administer, control,
               and review false alarm reduction efforts.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm company</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 notification to a law enforcement agency, EMS agency and/or fire department
               that an alarm, either manual or automatic has been activated at a particular alarm
               site.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm registration</span> means the notification by an alarm company or an alarm user to the alarm administrator
               that an alarm system has been installed and is in use.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm site</span> means a single fixed premise 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 a radio frequency method such as a cellular or private radio signal, which emit
               or transmit a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm
               condition and intended to summon law enforcement, EMS and/or fire service of the county,
               including local alarm system. Alarm system does not include an alarm installed on
               a vehicle or person unless the vehicle or personal alarm is permanently located at
               a site.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm user</span> means any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity who (which) uses
               or is in control of any alarm system at its alarm site.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm user awareness class</span> means a class conducted by the county for the purpose of educating alarm users about
               the problems created by false alarms and responsible use and operation of alarm systems.
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               <span class="ital">Automatic voice dialer</span> means any electrical, electronic, mechanical or other device capable of being programmed
               to send a prerecorded voice message, when activated, over a telephone line, radio
               or other communication system, to a law enforcement agency, EMS agency or fire department.
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               <span class="ital">Cancellation</span> or <span class="ital">responding agency alarm dispatch cancellation</span> is the process by which an alarm company providing the monitoring verifies with the
               alarm user or responsible party that a false dispatch has occurred and that there
               is not an existing situation at the alarm site requiring law enforcement or fire department
               response.
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               <span class="ital">Duress alarm</span> means a silent alarm system signal generated by the manual activation of a device
               intended to signal a life threatening situation or a crime in progress requiring law
               enforcement, EMS and/or fire department response.
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               <span class="ital">EMS</span> means emergency medical services.
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               <span class="ital">False alarm</span> means an alarm dispatch request to a law enforcement agency, EMS and/or fire department,
               when the responding unit finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal
               offense or fire after having completed a timely investigation of the alarm site.
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               <span class="ital">Hold-up alarm</span> means 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">License</span> means a license issued to an alarm company to sell, install, monitor, repair, or
               replace alarm systems by an authority having jurisdiction.
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               <span class="ital">Local alarm system</span> means any alarm system that annunciates an alarm only by an internal or external
               audio device.
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               <span class="ital">Monitoring</span> means the process by which an alarm company receives signals from an alarm system
               and relays an alarm dispatch request to the county for the purpose of summoning law
               enforcement, EMS and/or fire department response to the alarm site.
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               <span class="ital">Panic</span> means an audible alarm system signal generated by the manual activation of a device
               intended to signal a life threatening or emergency situation requiring law enforcement,
               EMS and/or fire department response.
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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 and/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">Verify</span> means an attempt, by the alarm company, 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 law enforcement, EMS and/or fire dispatch, in an
               attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch.
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               <span class="ital">Zones</span> are subdivisions into which an alarm system is divided to indicate the general location
               from which an alarm system signal is transmitted.
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               (Ord. of 6-5-00, Â§ 2)
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