The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this chapter:
ALARM EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER
Any person, firm or corporation who sells or leases and/or installs
automatic protection devices or audible alarm systems.
ALARM SYSTEM
An audible alarm, automatic protection device or other similar device
designed to provide notice of burglary, fire, robbery, medical emergency or
other similar emergency to which police, fire fighters or rescue company personnel
respond.
ALARM SYSTEM USER
Any individual, unincorporated association, corporation, trust or
other legally recognized entity in control of any premises having an audible
alarm system or automatic protection device which notifies the Police Department
either directly or indirectly and requires the response of the Police Department,
the Fire Department or rescue companies.
ANSWERING SERVICE
A service whereby trained employees, in attendance at all times,
receive prerecorded messages or signals from automatic protection devices
reporting an emergency at a stated location and have the duty to relay immediately
by live voice any such emergency to the Police Department, the Fire Department
or a rescue company.
AUDIBLE ALARM
Any device, bell, horn or siren which is attached to the interior
or exterior of a building and emits a warning signal audible outside the building
and is designed to attract attention when activated by a criminal act or other
emergency requiring police, fire fighters or a rescue company to respond.
AUTOMATIC PROTECTION DEVICE
An electrically operated instrument, composed of sensory apparatus
and related hardware, which automatically transmits a prerecorded voice alarm
over regular telephone line by direct or indirect connections to the Police
Department, Fire Department, central station protective system or answering
service upon receipt of a stimulus from a sensory apparatus that has detected
a physical force or condition inherently characteristic of a fire, intrusion
or other hazard.
CENTRAL STATION PROTECTIVE SYSTEM
A protective system or group of such systems operated privately for
customers by a person, which maintains supervisors and accepts recorded messages
or signals from automatic protection devices at a central station having trained
operators and guards in attendance at all times that have the duty to take
appropriate action upon the receipt of a message or signal, including the
relaying of messages by a designated or direct trunk line to the communications
center of the Police Department.
FALSE ALARM
Any signal activated by an automatic protection device, any audible
alarm or any other kind of direct or indirect signal given the police or fire
communications center to which police or fire fighters or rescue companies
respond, which signal or alarm is not the result of a burglary, fire, robbery
or similar emergency or which is not the result of a power surge or failure,
lightning strike or other uncontrollable event.
FIRE DEPARTMENT
Any fire department or fire company which responds to alarms within
the Township of West Hempfield.
PERSON
Any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other legally
recognized entity and the officers of such corporations or the members of
such partnership.
RESCUE COMPANY
Any organization which provides emergency medical services which
respond to alarms within the Township of West Hempfield.
SECRETARY
The Secretary of the Township of West Hempfield.
TOWNSHIP
The Township of West Hempfield, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
TREASURER
The Treasurer of the Township of West Hempfield.