§ 34-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:

ALARM BUSINESS

Any business operated by a person, partnership, corporation or other business entity, for profit, which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing or responding to a fire or burglar alarm system or which causes any of these activities to take place. This definition does not include those retail establishments which only sell alarm devices or alarm systems over the counter.

ALARM DEVICE

Any type of alarm-activating equipment which provides warning of burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or other potential for harm to life or property.

ALARM SYSTEM

The installation in a building or structure of one or more alarm devices for the express purpose of giving visual, audible and/or electronic warning of an emergency such as burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or other potential for harm to life or property.

ALARM USER

Any person, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or facility wherein an alarm device or alarm system is operated.

FALSE ALARM

An alarm signal eliciting a response by police, fire fighters, other emergency personnel or other public officials when a situation requiring a response by police, fire fighters, other emergency personnel or other public officials does not in fact exist. A false alarm shall not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature, such as, but not limited to, lightning, tornadoes, hurricanes or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm business or alarm user.

INDEPENDENT SMOKE/FIRE DETECTOR

A device giving an audible alarm indicating smoke and/or fire within a structure and not connected to an alarm system or to any external warning device.