For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms, phrases, words and their derivations shall have the meaning given in this section. When not inconsistent with the context, words used in the present tense include the future, words used in the plural number include the singular number and words in the singular number include the plural number. The word "shall" is always mandatory and not merely directory.

"Alarm business" means the business by any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity of selling, leasing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed any alarm system in or on any building, structure or facility.

"Alarm system" means an assembly of equipment or devices (or a single device such as a solid state unit which plugs directly into a one hundred ten (110) volt AC line) arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police officers are expected to respond. In this chapter, the term "alarm system" shall include the terms "holdup alarm systems," "burglar alarm systems" and "fire alarm systems," as those terms are hereinafter defined. A "proprietary alarm system," as hereinafter defined, is not included in this chapter unless it also summons the police officers or employs an audible signal or a flashing light or beacon designed to signal persons outside the premises.

"Alarm user" means any person on whose premises an alarm system is maintained or the person responsible for those premises or business, within the city.

"Audible alarm" means a device designed for the detection of unauthorized entry on premises which generates an audible sound and/or a flashing light on the premises when it is actuated and which is not connected to any other agency.

"Automatic dialing device" means an alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connecting or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message or coded signal indicating the existence of an emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect.

"Burglar alarm system" means an alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into the area protected by the system.

"City" means the city of El Dorado, Kansas.

"Communication center" means the division of the police department of the city or any authorized agent thereof.

"Direct connect" means an alarm system which has the capability of transmitting system signals to and receiving them at an agency maintained by the city; for example, an emergency communications system.

"Direct line" means a telephone line leading directly from a central station to the emergency communications center that is for use only to report emergency signals on a person-to-person basis.

"False alarm" means the activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or the negligence of a person. An alarm signal transmitted in the absence of an alarm condition except when initiated by an act of God.

"Fire alarm system" means an alarm system signaling a fire in progress or about to become combustible.

"Holdup alarm system" means an alarm system in which the signal transmission is initiated by the action of the victim, by an observer of the crime, or by the perpetrator of the crime.

"Interconnect" means to connect an alarm system to a voicegrade telephone line, either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a standard telephone, for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit an emergency message upon the activation of the alarm system.

"Person" means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.

"Police department" means the publicly supported police department of the city, or any authorized agent thereof.

"Primary trunkline" means a telephone line leading directly into the communications center that is for the purpose of handling emergency calls on a person-to-person basis, and which is identified in the telephone directly issued by the telephone company and covering all emergency services within the communications center jurisdiction.

"Proprietary system" means an alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory signals at a control center located within the protected premises. If a proprietary system includes a signal line connected directly or by means of an automatic dialing device to the communications center, a central station, modified central station or answering service, it thereby becomes an "alarm system" as defined in this section. (Prior code § 13-701 (part))