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• <br />(D) Alarm Review Board shall consist of five members as follows: the Alarm <br />Administrator, a Sheriffs Office representative designated by the Sheriff, a local alarm business <br />representative appointed by the local alarm association, and two (2) members of the public at <br />large, appointed by the Sheriff. <br />(E) Alarm Site means a single premises or location served by an alarm systems. <br />Each tenancy, if served by a separate alarm system in a multi tenant building or complex shall be <br />considered a separate alarm site. <br />(F) Alarm System means a device or series of devices, including, but not limited to, <br />systems interconnected with radio frequency signals, which are designed to discourage crime, by <br />emitting or transmitting a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm <br />condition. Alarm system does not include: <br />an alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that <br />does not have a sounding device which can be heard on the exterior of <br />the alarm site. <br />fire and emergency medical (Life Line) systems. <br />(G) Alarm User means any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity who <br />(which) uses an alarm system at it's alann site. <br />(1H) Sheriff means the Sheriff of the county or an authorized representative. <br />(1) Conversion means the transaction or process by which one alarm business begins <br />monitoring of an alarm system previously monitored by another alarm business. <br />(J) Duress Alarm means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a <br />device intended to signal a crisis situation requiring law enforcement response. <br />(K) False Alarm Dispatch means an alarm dispatch request to a law enforcement <br />agency, when the responding officer fmds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted <br />criminal activity after having completed a timely investigation of the alarm site. An alarm <br />dispatch request which is canceled by the alarm business or the alarm user prior to the time the <br />responding officer reaches the alarm site shall not be considered a false alarm dispatch. <br />(L) False Alarm User Awareness Class means a class operated by the Sheriffs Office <br />for the purpose of educating alarm users about the problems created by false alarm dispatches <br />and in the responsible use of their alarm system. <br />(M) Holdup Alarm means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a <br />device intended to signal a robbery in progress. <br />(N) Keypad means a device that allows control of an alarm system by the manual <br />entering of a coded sequence of numbers or letters. <br />(0) Monitoring means the process by which an alarm business receives signals from <br />alarm systems and relays an alarm dispatch request to the city for the purpose of summoning <br />police response to the alarm site. <br />(P) One Plus Duress Alarm means the manual activation of a silent alarm signal by <br />entering at a keypad a code that adds one to the last digit of the normal arm/disann code (normal <br />code = 1234 one plus duress code = 1235). <br />(Q) Person means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization or <br />-similar entity. <br />(R) Takeover means the transaction or process by which an alarm user takes over <br />control of an existing alarm system which was previously controlled by another alarm user. <br />(S) Verify means an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request. The <br />alarm business, or it's representative, must attempt to contact the alarm site by telephonic or other <br />electronic means (whether or not actual contact with a person is made), in an attempt to avoid an <br />unnecessary alarm dispatch request. <br />MARCH 23, 1999 <br />27 <br />• <br />BOOK 103 FADE 0 DI <br />