§ 5.57.020. Definitions.

In this chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings:

A.

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

B.

"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.

C.

"Alarm dispatch request" means a notification to a law enforcement agency that an alarm, either manual or automatic, has been activated at a particular alarm site.

D.

"Alarm registration" means authorization granted by the alarm administrator to an alarm user to operate an alarm system.

E.

"Alarm site" means a single fixed premises or location served by an alarm system or systems. Each unit, if served by a separate alarm system in a multi-unit building or complex, shall be considered a separate alarm site.

F.

"Alarm system" means a device or series of devices, including, but not limited to, hardwired systems and systems interconnected with a radio frequency method such as cellular or private radio signals, which emit or transmit a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition which is intended to summon law enforcement response, including local alarm systems. Alarm system does not include an alarm installed in a vehicle or on someone's person unless the vehicle or the personal alarm is permanently located at a site.

G.

"Alarm user" means any person operating a commercial entity, who (which) has contracted for monitoring, repair, installation or maintenance service from an alarm installation company or monitoring company for an alarm system, or who (which) owns or operates an alarm system which is not monitored, maintained or repaired under contract.

H.

"Arming station" means a device that allows control of an alarm system.

I.

"Cancellation" means the process where response is terminated when a monitoring company (designated by the alarm user) for the alarm site notifies the responding law enforcement agency that there is not an existing situation at the alarm site requiring law enforcement agency response after an alarm dispatch request.

J.

"Conversion" means the transaction or process by which an alarm installation company or monitoring company begins the servicing and/or monitoring of a previously unmonitored alarm system or an alarm system previously serviced and/or monitored by another alarm company.

K.

"Duress alarm" means a silent alarm system signal generated by the entry of a designated code into an arming station in order to signal that the alarm user is being forced to turn off the system and requires law enforcement response.

L.

"False alarm" means an alarm dispatch request to a law enforcement agency, when the responding law enforcement officer finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after having completed a timely investigation of the alarm site.

M.

"Holdup alarm" means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a robbery in progress.

N.

"Law enforcement authority" means the chief of the Revere police department and/or his/her designee.

O.

"Monitoring" means the process by which a monitoring company receives signals from an alarm system and relays an alarm dispatch request to the municipality for the purpose of summoning law enforcement to the alarm site.

P.

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

Q.

"Panic alarm" 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 response.

R.

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

S.

"Responder" means an individual capable of reaching the alarm site within a short period of time who has access to the alarm site, the code to the alarm system and the authority to approve repairs to the alarm system.

T.

"Takeover" 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.

U.

"Verify" means an attempt by the monitoring 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, to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting law enforcement dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request.

V.

"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.

(C.O.04-171 § 1 (part))