§ 108-2. Definitions.

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

ALARM BUSINESS

Any business operated by a person, partnership, corporation, etc., 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. Excluded from this definition, however, are retail establishments that sell alarm systems over the counter.

ALARM DEVICE

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

ALARM SYSTEM

One or more alarm devices installed in a building or structure employed to call attention to, or provide warning of, intrusion by any person or fire, whether the same provides a visual, audio or electronic response, alarm or warning of an emergency such as burglary, intrusion, fire, flood or like peril. The term "alarm system" shall not include:

A. 

Concealed battery or electrically powered concealed battery or electrically powered smoke detector or carbon monoxide detector units located within single-family residences and which give out an audible signal.

B. 

Automobile alarm systems.

C. 

An alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that does not have a sounding device, which can be heard on the exterior of the alarm site.

CENTRAL ALARM STATION

An alarm station that transmits the alarm to an alarm-processing center, which then calls to dispatch the Police and/or the Fire Department.

DIAL ALARM

An alarm device using telephone or other lines that transmits an alarm signal of intrusion to the Fanwood Police Department or any other third party.

FALSE ALARM

Any alarm or signal activated or transmitted eliciting a response by police or firefighters or other public officials by inadvertent, negligent, unintentional or intentional act or omission of a person (caused or transmitted other than by an intruder), and shall also include alarms caused by malfunctioning of the alarm device or other related equipment (but excluding 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).