§ 12-179. Definitions.

Alarm administrator means a person or persons designated by the chief of police to administer, control and review false alarm reduction efforts and administers the provisions of this chapter.

Alarm installation company means a person in the business of selling, providing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing an alarm system in an alarm site. This definition shall also include individuals or firms that install and service the alarm systems that will be used in their private or proprietary facilities. This does not include persons doing installation or repair work where such work is performed without compensation of any kind (i.e., "do-it-yourselfers").

Alarm notification request means a communication intended to summon emergency personnel, which is designed either to be initiated purposely or by the person or by an alarm system that responds to a stimulus characteristic of unauthorized intrusion.

Alarm permit holder means a person who has received an alarm system permit, as required by this article.

Alarm site means a premises or location served by an alarm system or systems. An alarm site includes single units of a multiunit building.

Alarm system means a device or system that emits, transmits, or relays a signal intended to summon, or that would reasonably be expected to summon, emergency personnel of the city, including but not limited to, local alarms. Alarm system does not include:

(1)

An alarm installed on a motor vehicle;

(2)

Any device or system designed solely to detect or give notice of fire, smoke, or water flow;

(3)

An alarm system designed solely to alert the alarm system user by any means other than emitting an audible or visual signal outside the building or residence.

(4)

An alarm system that is a personal emergency response system designed only to permit the person to signal the occurrence of a medical or personal emergency and not part of a combination of alarm systems that includes a burglar alarm or fire alarm.

Alarm system user means a person who owns or controls the premises upon which an alarm system is located.

ANSI/SIA Control Panel Standard CP-01 means the ANSI-American National Standard Institute approved Security Industry Association-SIA CP-01 Control Panel Standard, as may be updated from time to time, that details recommended design features for security system control panels and their associated arming and disarming devices to reduce the incidence of false alarms. Control panels built and tested to this standard by Underwriters Laboratory (UL), or other nationally recognized testing organization, will be marked to state: "Design evaluated in accordance with SIA CP-01 Control Panel Standard Features for False Alarm Reduction".

Chief means the Chief of Police of the City of Hurst or the chief's representative.

Emergency personnel means Police Personnel or Fire Personnel of the City of Hurst.

False alarm means the activation of an alarm system that results in a notification of and a response by city emergency personnel within thirty (30) minutes of alarm notification and a determination by such personnel from an inspection of the interior or exterior of the premises that the alarm was false.

False alarm notification means the activation of an alarm system that results in notification to city emergency personnel, and response by emergency personnel at a time when the responding personnel find no evidence of unauthorized intrusion, robbery, attempted robbery, or any other violation that the alarm system was intended to report.

Local alarm means an alarm system that emits a signal at an alarm site that is audible or visible from the exterior of a structure.

Monitoring means the process by which a monitoring company receives signals from an alarm system and relays an alarm dispatch request to the Hurst Police Communications Center for the purpose of summoning the Hurst Police Department to the alarm site.

Monitoring company means a person in the business of providing monitoring services.

One plus duress alarm means the manual activation of a silent alarm signal by entering at an arming station, a code that adds one (1) to the last digit of the normal arm/disarm code.

Person means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization, or similar entity.

Protective/reactive alarm system means an alarm system that is rigged to produce a temporary disability or sensory deprivation through use of chemical, electrical or sonic defense, or by any other means, including use of vision obscuring/disabling devices.

Robbery alarm (also panic, duress or hold-up alarm ) means an alarm signal generated by the manual or automatic activation of a device, or any system, device or mechanism on or near the premises intended to signal that a robbery or other crime is in progress, and that one (1) or more persons are in need of immediate police assistance in order to avoid injury, serious bodily harm or death at the hands of the perpetrator of the robbery or other crime.

Special trunk line means a telephone line leading into the communications center of the police or fire department that is for the primary purpose of receiving alarm notifications.

Takeover means the transaction or process by which an alarm permit holder takes over control of an existing alarm system, which was previously controlled by another alarm permit holder.

Verify means an attempt by the monitoring company, or its representative, to contact the alarm site and/or alarm permit holder by telephone and/or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a person is made, to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting a police dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request. For the purpose of this article, telephone verification shall require as a minimum that a second call be made to a different number, if the first attempt fails to reach an alarm permit holder who can properly identify themselves to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting an officer dispatch. Names and numbers or those contacted or attempted to contact, must be provided when requested.

Zones means division of devices into which an alarm system is divided to indicate the general location from which an alarm system signal is transmitted.

(Ord. No. 2367, § 2, 9-12-17)