<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 46-52. - 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 system</span> means any mechanism, equipment or device which is designed to operate automatically
               to transmit to the sheriff's department or other receiving station a signal, message
               or warning and to which the sheriff's department is expected to respond.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm system business</span> means any person, firm, association, or corporation which installs, services, monitors,
               or responds to electrical, electronic or mechanical alarm signal devices, burglar
               alarms, television cameras or still cameras used to detect burglary, breaking or entering,
               intrusion, shoplifting, pilferage, or theft for a fee or other valuable consideration.
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               <span class="ital">Alarm user</span> means any person, firm, association, or corporation of any kind in control of any
               building, structure, or facility wherein an alarm system is installed, operated and
               maintained.
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               <span class="ital">Automatic dialing device</span> means equipment which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to
               select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice message or code signal
               an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response.
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               <span class="ital">False alarm</span> means activation of an alarm system eliciting a response by the sheriff's department
               when a situation requiring such a response does not in fact exist. This includes accidental,
               avoidable and unnecessary alarm activation due to user error, equipment malfunction,
               improper or unsuited equipment, but does not include alarms activated by unusually
               severe weather conditions or other extraordinary circumstances beyond the control
               of the user or alarm system business.
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               (Ord. of 1-4-1988, Â§ II)
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