“Alarm business” means any business by any individual, partnership, corporation, company or other entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, monitoring, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved, monitored, or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure, or facility.

“Alarm coordinator” means an individual designated by the City to manage and enforce the provisions of this chapter.

“Alarm system” means any device or series of devices including, but not limited to, hardwired systems and 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 arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police are expected to respond.

“Alarm user” means any person who owns, leases, operates, or maintains an alarm system in or on any building, structure, or facility.

“Automatic dialing device” means a device connected to a communication line and programmed to select a predetermined phone number and transmits by voice message or code signal to a dispatch service or agency indicating an urgent need for police.

“Deactivate or deactivation” means removal from any power source.

“False alarm” means an alarm signal that elicits an urgent response for police, when circumstances reasonably justifying such a response do not exist at the time the alarm signal was transmitted. This includes the activation of an alarm system through mechanical or electronic failure, malfunction, improper installation or the negligence of the alarm user or alarm user’s employee or agent. The term does not include an alarm signal transmitted because of violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm user.

“Notice” means written notice served through the last-known electronic mailing address, or served through first-class mail of the last known mailing address of the recipient.

Person. See BC 1.01.020 (“Person”).

“Unsecured” means a door that is unlocked or an open door or window.

“Vehicle alarm system” means a silent or audible alarm system that is a part of a vehicle. [BC 7.15.015, added by Ordinance No. 3647, 11/28/88; amended by Ordinances No. 4085, 2/7/00, Ordinance No. 4690, 7/19/16]