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Act of God. An unusual, extraordinary, sudden and unexpected manifestation of the forces of nature, which cannot be prevented by reasonable human care, skill or foresight.

Alarm or Alarm System. Any electrical instrument(s) or other device(s) which as one of its purposes is used to protect buildings, premises or persons from criminal acts or unauthorized entry through the emission or transmission of a sound or signal.

Alarm Business. Any person, firm, partnership, corporation or other entity who (which) owns or conducts the business of any one or more of the following: selling, leasing, renting, maintaining or monitoring alarm systems, devices or services.

Common Cause. A common technical difficulty or malfunction which causes an alarm system to generate a series of false alarms. Said series of false alarms shall be counted as one false alarm only if the false alarms have all occurred within a seventy-two (72) hour period, and the responsible alarm business has documented, to the Police Chief, or his designee, the action taken to rectify the cause and a thirty (30) day grace period expires with the alarm system generating no additional false alarms from the documented cause.

False Alarms. Any activation of an alarm not caused by or a result of a criminal act or unauthorized entry, except for activation for testing purposes when the Police Department has been given advance notice of such testing, or activation caused by the Police Department.

Proprietor Alarms. Any alarm or alarm system which is not leased or rented from, or owned or maintained under contract by an alarm business. ((O)98-07, 03/18/1998)