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The following words shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:

ALARM ADMINISTRATOR: The Summit County communications center.

ALARM BUSINESS: The business, by an individual, partnership, corporation or other entity, of monitoring, or subcontracting the monitoring of an alarm system at an alarm site.

ALARM DISPATCH REQUEST: A notification to the alarm administrator by the alarm business that an alarm, either manual or automatic, has been activated at a particular alarm site and that the alarm business requests the Town of Breckenridge police department, or applicable fire protection district, to respond to the alarm site. There is no duty to dispatch under any circumstances, including to answer an alarm signal, and all dispatch decisions are made subject to competing priorities and available law enforcement or fire protection services.

ALARM SITE: A single premises or location located within the corporate limits of the Town of Breckenridge that is served by an alarm system or systems. Each tenancy, if served by a separate alarm system in a multi-tenant building or complex, shall be considered a separate alarm site.

ALARM SYSTEM: Any device designed for the detection of fire or unauthorized entry on or into any building, place or premises, or for alerting others of the commission of an unlawful act, or any combination thereof, which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visual signal or transmits a signal or message to which public safety officers are requested to respond or which would imply to a reasonable person that public safety officers are needed at the alarm source to investigate a fire, criminal activity or emergency.

ANNUAL SERVICE CONTRACT: An agreement entered between the alarm administrator and an alarm business for the purpose of providing the terms and conditions related to emergency service response to alarm dispatch requests generated by the alarm business through the alarm administrator, which response is in any event at the discretion of the applicable law enforcement or fire protection agency.

FALSE ALARM: The activation of an alarm system resulting in a response by the Breckenridge police department or applicable fire protection district to the alarm site when the responding public safety personnel find no evidence of a fire, criminal offense or attempted criminal offense after having completed a timely investigation of the alarm site. An alarm dispatch request, which is canceled by the alarm business or the alarm site owner or occupant prior to the time the responding public safety personnel reaches the alarm site may be considered a false alarm.

MONITOR: The process by which an alarm business receives signals from alarm systems and relays an alarm dispatch request to the Summit County communications center for the purpose of summoning public safety service provider response to the alarm site. (Ord. 12, Series 2005)