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ALARMS RESPONDED TO BY EMERGENCY RESPONSE AGENCIES <br /> <br />SECTION1. PURPOSE <br /> <br /> (A) The purpose of this ordinance is to encourage Alarm Users and Alarm Businesses to <br />maintain the operational reliability and properly use Alarm Systems and to reduce or eliminate False <br />Alarm Dispatch Requests. <br /> <br /> (B) This ordinance governs users of systems intended to summon law enforcement, fire <br />department or emergency medical services response, requires permits, establishes fees, provides for <br />penalties for violations, establishes a system of administration, and sets conditions for suspension or loss <br />of permits. <br /> <br />SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS <br /> <br />In this ordinance: <br /> <br /> (A) Alarm Administrator means a Person or Persons designated by the county manager to <br />administer, control and review alarm applications, permits and Alarm Dispatch Requests. <br /> <br /> (B) Alarm Business means the business, by an individual, partnership, corporation or other <br />entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, installing or <br />Monitoring an Alarm System in an Alarm Site. <br /> <br /> (C) Alarm Dispatch Request means a notification to the law enforcement, fire or <br />emergency medical dispatch center by the Alarm Business that an alarm, either manual or automatic has <br />been activated at a particular Alarm Site. <br /> <br />(D) Alarm Review Authority shall mean the Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners. <br /> <br /> (E) Alarm Site means a single premises or location served by an Alarm System or 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 /> <br /> (F) Alarm System means a device or sedes of devices, including, but not limited to, <br />systems intemonnected with hard wires or with radio frequency signals, which are designed to discourage <br />or detect crime, detect smoke or fire, or summons emergency medical assistance by emitting or <br />transmitting a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition. Alarm <br />System does not include: <br /> <br /> (1) an alarm installed on a vehicle unless the vehicle is permanently located at a <br />site; or <br /> (2) an alarm designed to alert only the inhabitants of a premises that does not have <br />a sounding device which can be heard on the extedor of the Alarm Site. <br /> <br /> (G) Alarm User means any Person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity who (which) <br />uses an Alarm System at its Alarm Site. <br /> <br />(H) Chief means the duly appointed Chief of a police or fire department. <br /> <br /> <br />