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2. To provide an emergency contact database of each alarm user. 3. To protect the health, safety, and welfare of the general public. Section 1-4. Definitions. (A) Alarm Administrator means the Director of the Code Enforcement and Licensing Department or his/her designee who shall administer, control and review alarm registrations and false alarm notifications. (B) Alarm company means any person engaged in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, installing or monitoring any alarm system or causing any alarm system to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed in, or on, any building, structure or facility. (C) Alarm Notification means a notification intended to summon the police, which is designed either to be initiated purposefully by a person or by an alarm system that responds to a stimulus characteristic of unauthorized intrusion. (D) Alarm Site means a single premise or location served by an alarm system or systems. (E) Alarm System means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, including both local alarms and alarms sent to a central monitoring station, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which the Police Department may reasonably be expected to respond, but does not include fire alarms or alarms installed in motor vehicles. (F) Alarm user means any person or other entity that owns, possesses, controls, occupies, or manages any premises as defined below; and/or the registered owner designated in the application process. (G) Alarm Owner means the person designated in the application process as required who is responsible for responding to alarms and giving access to the site, and who is responsible for proper maintenance and operation of the alarm and payment of penalties and fees relating to the operation of the alarm system. (H) False Alarm Notification means a signal from an alarm system that elicits a response by the Police when no emergency or actual, or threatened criminal activity requiring immediate response exists. This definition includes signals activated by negligence, accident, mechanical failure, and electrical failure; signals activated intentionally in nonemergency situations; and signals for which the actual cause of activation is unknown. It is a rebuttable presumption that an alarm is false if personnel responding from the Police Department do not discover any evidence of unauthorized entry, criminal activity, or other emergency after 02001- Alarm System Registration page 2 of 13