§ 5.3.6.010. Definitions.

Unless otherwise specified, the following words and phrases when used in this article shall have the following meanings:

A.

"Alarm agent" means any person who is directly or indirectly employed by an alarm business, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing on or in any building, structure or facility, any alarm system.

B.

"Alarm business" means any individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved, or installed any alarm system in, or on, any building, structure, or facility.

C.

"Alarm system" means any mechanical or electrical device which is designed, or used for, the detection of an unauthorized entry into a building, structure, or facility; or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure, or facility, or both; and which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when actuated. Devices that are not designed or used to register alarms that are audible, visible or perceptible outside of the protected building, structure, or facility are not included within this definition, nor are auxiliary devices installed by a telephone or telecommunication company to protect company systems which might be damaged or disrupted by the use of an alarm system. Alarm systems include, but are not limited to:

1.

direct dial telephone devices; and

2.

audible alarms and proprietor alarms.

D.

"Audible alarm" means a device designed for the detection of unauthorized entry on premises which generates an audible sound on the premises when it is actuated.

E.

"False alarm" means an alarm signal actuated by inadvertence, negligence, or unintentional act necessitating response by the Great Falls Police Department, including alarms caused by the malfunction of the alarm system, except the following:

1.

alarms caused by repair of telephone or communication equipment or lines;

2.

alarms caused by earthquakes, flood, windstorm, thunder, and lightning;

3.

alarms caused by an attempted illegal entry or analogous causes of which there is visible evidence; and

4.

alarms caused by power outages.

F.

"Proprietor alarm" means an alarm which is not serviced by an alarm business.

G.

"Subscriber" means any person who purchases, leases, contracts for, or otherwise obtains an alarm system or for the servicing maintenance of an alarm system from an alarm business.

(Ord. 3168, 2017).