Burglar alarm systems. False alarm means an alarm signal to which the city police respond with any emergency service personnel or equipment when a situation requiring a response by the police does not in fact exist, and which signal is caused by the inadvertence, negligence, or intentional act or omission of an alarm company or alarm user, or a malfunction of the alarm. Alarms caused by an Act of God, including earthquakes, floods, windstorms, thunder or lightning. Alarms caused by an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence or which the police department determines to be the result of an intrusion attempt or alarm tampering. Alarms caused by the testing, repair, or malfunction of electrical utility equipment or lines.
Location means the property from which any alarm signal originates.
Owner, user, or operator of a burglar alarm system means the person in control of premises wherein an alarm system is maintained. It shall be unlawful to install or operate a burglar alarm system without first giving written notice to the chief of police of the name and telephone number of whomever assumes the responsibility for cutting off the alarm system when advised to do so by the police department. It shall likewise be unlawful for the owner or operator of an alarm system not to keep such information current and correct relative to the telephone number and name of whomever has assumed such responsibility for cutting off the alarm system. Emergency cash fund for chief of police. Receipts for such expenditures from such emergency cash fund shall be attached to the warrant voucher replenishing or reimbursing such emergency cash fund.