5-10-2: DEFINITIONS:
For the purposes of this chapter, the following terms, phrases and words, and derivations thereof, shall have the meanings given herein. The word "shall" is mandatory and not merely directory.
ALARM INSTALLATION COMPANY: A person in the business of selling, providing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing an alarm system in a business or residence.
ALARM MONITORING BUSINESS: Any person, firm or corporation who is engaged in the monitoring of security alarm systems and the summoning of police response to activations thereof. This includes both businesses that are engaged in alarm monitoring for profit and businesses that have specialized units or subsidiaries that monitor only their own alarm systems.
ALARM OFFICER: The Chief of the Boise City Police Department or his designee.
ALARM SYSTEM: Any mechanical, electrical or other device which is designed or used for the detection of a trespass, burglary or robbery within a building, structure or facility, or for alerting others to a hazard or to the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure or facility, or which emits a sound or transmits a signal or message when activated and which is designed to elicit a response from the Police Department. Alarm systems include, but are not limited to, direct dial telephone devices, audible alarms and proprietor alarms. Devices which are not designed or used to register alarms but are audible, visible or perceptible outside the protected building, structure or facility are not included with this definition. An alarm system includes all the necessary equipment designed and installed for the detection of a trespass, burglary, robbery or other hazard in a single building, structure or facility, or for alerting others to the commission of an unlawful act within a building, structure or facility.
ALARM USER: Any person who purchases, leases, contracts for or otherwise obtains a security alarm system or contracts for the servicing or maintenance of a security alarm system.
AUDIBLE ALARM: A device designed for the detection of unauthorized entry or presence on certain premises which generates an audible sound or signal on such premises when it is activated.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE: An alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message or coded signal indicating the existence of an emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect.
EMERGENCY: Any condition for which the alarm was designed and installed, and which results in a response of police personnel.
ENHANCED CALL VERIFICATION: An independent method whereby the alarm monitoring company attempts to determine that a signal from an automatic alarm system reflects a need for immediate police assistance or investigation. This verification process will be conducted by the alarm system monitoring personnel and shall consist of making two (2) phone calls to the responsible party or parties and shall not take more than five (5) minutes from the time the alarm signal has been accepted by the alarm system monitoring company. At least one of the two (2) phone calls must be made to a party off the premises upon which the alarm system is installed.
FALSE ALARM: An alarm signal, message, transmittal or communication which is activated from an alarm system and which is responded to by personnel of the Police Department for which no emergency situation exists or existed as determined by the responding police personnel. False alarms shall not include alarms caused by natural occurrences, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other extraordinary circumstances determined by the alarm officer to be clearly beyond the control of the alarm user.
HOLDUP ALARM (Also DURESS ALARM, ROBBERY ALARM OR PANIC 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 one or more persons are in need of immediate police assistance in order to avoid injury, serious bodily harm or death at the hands of the perpetrator of the robbery or other crime.
ONE PLUS DURESS ALARM: A security alarm system which permits the manual activation of an alarm signal by entering on a keypad a code that either adds the value of 1 to the last digit of a normal arm/disarm code (e.g., the normal arm/disarm code "1234" if entered as "1235" automatically activates the duress alarm feature) or that involves entering any incorrect final digit to a normal arm/disarm code.
PENALTY STATUS: That status achieved by more than one false alarm within the calendar year beginning January 1 and ending December 31.
PERSON: Any individual, partnership, association, corporation or organization of any kind, or any governmental entity or political subdivision thereof.
SIA CONTROL PANEL STANDARD CP-01: The American National Standard Institute (ANSI) 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". (1952 Code § 6-15-02)
