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 Floral Park
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 7. Alarm Systems

  § 7-2. Definitions.  

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  • In this chapter the following terms and phrases shall have the following meanings:
    ALARM ADMINISTRATOR
    A person or persons designated by the Commissioner of Police to administer the provisions of this chapter.
    ALARM AGREEMENT
    The legal contract or agreement by and between the alarm installation company and/or monitoring company and the alarm user.
    ALARM DISPATCH REQUEST
    The legal contract or agreement by and between the alarm installation company and/or monitoring company and the alarm user.
    ALARM INSTALLATION COMPANY
    A person in the business of selling, providing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing an alarm system in an alarm site. This definition shall also include individuals or firms that install and service the alarm systems that will be used in their private or proprietary facilities. This does not include persons doing installation or repair work where such work is performed without compensation of any kind (i.e., "do-it-yourselfers").
    ALARM PERMIT
    Authorization granted by the Alarm Administrator to an alarm user to operate an alarm system.
    ALARM RESPONSE MANAGER (ARM)
    A person designated by an alarm installation company or monitoring company to handle alarm issues for the company and act as the primary point of contact for the jurisdiction's Alarm Administrator.
    ALARM SITE
    A location served by one or more alarm systems. In a multiunit building or complex, each unit shall be considered a separate alarm site if served by a separate alarm system. In a single unit building that houses two or more separate businesses with separate alarm systems, each business will be considered a separate alarm site.
    ALARM SYSTEM
    A device or series of devices which emit or transmit an audible or remote visual or electronic alarm signal which is intended to summon police response. The term includes hardwired systems and systems interconnected with a radio frequency method, such as cellular or private radio signals, and includes local alarm systems, but does not include an alarm installed in a motor vehicle, on one's person or a system which will not emit a signal either audible or visible from the outside of the building, residence or beyond, but is designed solely to alert the occupants of a building or residence.
    ALARM USER
    Any person who has contracted for monitoring, repair, installation or maintenance service for an alarm system from an alarm installation company or monitoring company, or who owns or operates an alarm system which is not monitored, maintained or repaired under agreement.
    ALARM USER LIST
    A list provided by the alarm user's alarm installation company or, if no alarm agreement exists between the alarm user and an alarm installation company, by the alarm user's monitoring company.
    ARMING STATION
    A device that controls an alarm system.
    AUTOMATIC VOICE DIALER OR DIGITAL ALARM
    Any electronic, mechanical, or other device which, when activated, is capable of being programmed to send a prerecorded voice or alarm message to a law enforcement agency requesting a police dispatch to an alarm site.
    BURGLAR ALARM
    An alarm intended to identify the presence of an intruder in either a business or residence.
    BURGLAR ALARM CRIME IN PROGRESS
    A burglar alarm dispatch request reported by a monitoring company that indicates a crime is in progress based upon an audio, video or "other electronic means" verification device installed at the alarm site.
    CANCELLATION
    The termination of a Police response to an alarm site after dispatch request is made, but before an officer has arrived at the alarm site.
    CONVERSION OF ALARM USER
    The transaction or process by which one alarm installation company or monitoring company begins the servicing or monitoring of a previously unmonitored alarm system or an alarm system that was previously serviced or monitored by another alarm company.
    CUSTOMER FALSE ALARM PREVENTION CHECKLIST
    A check-off list provided by the Alarm Administrator to the alarm installer to provide the alarm user to complete prior to the activation of an alarm system.
    DURESS ALARM
    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 an officer's response.
    ENHANCED CALL VERIFICATION (ECV)
    An attempt by the monitoring company, or its representative, to contact the alarm site and/or alarm user and/or the alarm user's designated representatives 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 a police dispatch, in an attempt to avoid an unnecessary alarm dispatch request. For the purpose of this chapter, telephone verification shall require, at 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 an officer dispatch. The name and numbers of those contacted, or attempted to be contacted, must be provided when requested.
    FALSE ALARM
    An alarm dispatch request to the Police Department which results in the responding officer finding no evidence of a criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after completing an investigation of the alarm site.
    HOLDUP ALARM
    A silent alarm signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a robbery in progress or immediately after it has occurred.
    LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITY
    The Commissioner of Police or other authorized representative of a law enforcement agency.
    LOCAL ALARM SYSTEM
    An unmonitored alarm system that annunciates an alarm only at the alarm site.
    MONITORING
    The process by which a monitoring company receives signals from an alarm system and relays an alarm dispatch request to the Police Department.
    MONITORING COMPANY
    A person in the business of providing monitoring.
    ONE PLUS DURESS ALARM
    The manual activation of a silent alarm signal by entering a code that adds one to the last digit of the normal arm/disarm code (e.g., normal code: 1234; one plus duress code: 1235).
    OTHER ELECTRONIC MEANS
    The real-time audio/video surveillance of an alarm site by the monitoring company by means of devices that permit the direct, live listening in or viewing of an alarm site or portions thereof.
    PANIC ALARM
    An alarm system signal generated by the manual activation of a device intended to signal a life threatening or emergency situation requiring an officer's response.
    PERSON
    An individual, corporation, partnership, association, organization of similar entity.
    POLICE OR POLICE DEPARTMENT
    The Village of Floral Park Police Department.
    PRIMARY TRUNK LINE
    A telephone line serving the Village of Floral Park Police Department building that is solely designated to receive emergency calls.
    PROTECTIVE OR REACTIVE ALARM SYSTEM
    An alarm system that produces a temporary disability or sensory deprivation through the use of chemical, electrical, sonic or other means, including use of devices that obscure or disable a person's vision.
    RESPONSIBLE PARTY
    A person capable of appearing at the alarm site upon request who has access to the alarm site, the code to the alarm system and the authority to approve repairs to the alarm system.
    ROBBERY ALARM
    An alarm signal generated by the manual or automatic activation of a device, or any system, device or mechanism on or near the premises intended to signal that a robbery or other crime is in progress, and that a person is in need of immediate police assistance in order to avoid bodily harm, injury or death. The term has the same general meaning as "holdup alarm" or "duress alarm."
    SIA CONTROL PANEL STANDARD CP-01
    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."
    SUSPENSION OF RESPONSE
    The termination of police response to alarms at a specified alarm site as a result of false alarms or other violation of the alarm systems chapter.
    TAKEOVER
    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.
    TELEPHONE VERIFICATION
    See "verify."
    UNREGISTERED ALARM SITE
    A site that has not complied with the registration requirements as defined in the alarm systems chapter.
    VERIFY
    An attempt by the monitoring company to determine the validity of an alarm signal prior to initiating an alarm dispatch request.
    ZONES
    Division of devices into which an alarm system is divided to indicate the general location from which an alarm system signal is transmitted.