“Alarm Administrator” means a person or persons designated by the governing authority to administer, control and review false alarm reduction efforts and administer the provisions of this chapter.

“Alarm company” means an alarm installation company or monitoring company.

“Alarm dispatch request” means a notification to a law enforcement agency that an alarm, either manual or automatic, has been activated at a particular alarm site.

“Alarm installation company” means a person in the business of selling, providing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing an alarm system in an alarm site.

“Alarm registration” means an authorization granted by the Alarm Administrator to an alarm user to operate an alarm system or to an alarm company to install or monitor an alarm system.

“Alarm site” means a single fixed premises or location served by an alarm system or systems. Each unit, if served by a separate alarm system in a multi-unit building or complex, must be considered a separate alarm site.

“Alarm system” means a device or series of devices, which may be monitored or unmonitored, including, but not limited to, hardwired systems and systems interconnected with a radio frequency method such as cellular or private radio signals, which emit or transmit a remote or local audible or electronic signal indicating an alarm condition and intended to summon law enforcement response. “Alarm system” does not include an alarm installed in a vehicle or on someone’s person unless the vehicle or the personal alarm is permanently located at a site. “Alarm system” does not include any device or series of devices that provides only video verification.

“Alarm user” means any person which has contracted for monitoring, repair, installation or maintenance service from an alarm installation company or monitoring company for an alarm system, or which owns or operates an alarm system which is not monitored, maintained or repaired under contract.

“Alarm user awareness class” means a class conducted for the purpose of educating alarm users about the responsible use, operation, and maintenance of alarm systems and the problems created by false alarms.

“Arming station” means a device that allows control of an alarm system.

“Automatic voice dialer” means any electrical, electronic, mechanical, or other device capable of being programmed to send a prerecorded voice message, when activated, over a telephone line, radio or other communication system, to a law enforcement, public safety or emergency services agency requesting dispatch.

“Cancellation” means the process where response is terminated when a monitoring company (designated by the alarm user) for the alarm site notifies the responding law enforcement agency that there is not an existing situation at the alarm site requiring law enforcement agency response after an alarm dispatch request.

“Conversion” means the transaction or process by which one alarm installation company or monitoring company begins the servicing and/or monitoring of a previously unmonitored alarm system or an alarm system previously serviced and/or monitored by another alarm company.

“Duress alarm” means a silent alarm system signal generated by the entry of a designated code into an arming station in order to signal that the alarm user is being forced to turn off the system and requires law enforcement response.

“False alarm” means an alarm dispatch request to a law enforcement agency, when the responding law enforcement officer finds no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after having completed a timely investigation of the alarm site.

“Holdup alarm” means a silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a robbery in progress.

“Law enforcement authority” means the Chief of Police or other authorized representative of the Olathe Police Department.

“Monitoring” means the process by which a monitoring company receives signals from an alarm system and relays an alarm dispatch request to the municipality for the purpose of summoning law enforcement to the alarm site.

“Monitoring company” means a person in the business of providing monitoring services.

“One plus duress alarm” means the manual activation of a silent alarm signal by entering at an arming station a code that adds one (1) to the last digit of the normal arm/disarm code (e.g., normal code = 1234, one plus duress code = 1235).

“Panic alarm” means an audible alarm system signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a life threatening or emergency situation requiring law enforcement response.

“Person” means an individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization or similar entity.

“Responder” means an individual capable of reaching the alarm site within twenty (20) minutes and having access to the alarm site, the code to the alarm system and the authority to approve repairs to the alarm system.

“SIA Control Panel Standard CP-01” means the ANSI – American National Standard Institute approved Security Industry Association – SIA CP-01 Control Panel Standard, as may be updated from time to time, that details recommended design features for security system control panels and their associated arming and disarming devices to reduce the incidence of false alarms. Control panels built and tested to this standard by Underwriters Laboratory (UL), or other nationally recognized testing organizations, will be marked to state: “Design evaluated in accordance with SIA CP-01 Control Panel Standard Features for False Alarm Reduction.”

“Takeover” means the transaction or process by which an alarm user takes over control of an existing alarm system, which was previously controlled by another alarm user.

“Unmonitored” means there is not a monitoring company receiving signals from an alarm system.

“Verify” means an attempt by the monitoring company, or its representative, to contact the alarm site and/or alarm user by telephone and/or other electronic means, whether or not actual contact with a person is made, to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting law enforcement dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request. For the purpose of this chapter, telephone verification requires, as a minimum, that a second call be made to a different number if the first attempt fails to reach an alarm user who can properly identify themselves to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting law enforcement dispatch.

“Video verification” means an electronic picture, pictures or images of an area of the alarm site which permits the alarm user or monitoring company to view the alarm site to verify an alarm condition exists.

“Zones” mean division or devices into which an alarm system is divided to indicate the general location from which an alarm system signal is transmitted. (Ord. 18-02 § 2, 2018.)