Title 5 - Business Licenses and Regulations

5.06 Alarm Systems

 

5.06.010 Definitions.

  1. A.
    Alarm Coordinator's office means those persons designated by the Chief of Police to administer and enforce the provisions of this ordinance.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. B.

    Alarm system means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, arranged to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry or other activity requiring urgent attention and to which police would be expected to respond.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. C.

    Alarm user means any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, business, company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure, premise or facility on which an operating alarm system is located.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. D.

    Answering service means a telephone answering business providing among its services the service of receiving on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from alarm systems, and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice to the communication center of the Overland Park, Kansas, Police Department.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. E.
    Automatic dial protection device means an electrically operated instrument composed of sensory apparatus and related hardware which automatically sends over telephone lines a prerecorded voice alarm upon receipt of a stimulus from the sensory apparatus that has detected a force or condition characteristic of an unauthorized intrusion or an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. F.

    Burglary alarm system means an automated alarm system signaling an entry or attempted entry into an area protected by the system.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. G.
    Central station protective system means a system or group of systems operated by a person, firm or corporation in which the operations of electrical protection circuits and devices are transmitted to, recorded in, maintained and supervised from a central station having operators in attendance at all times.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. H.
    Chargeable false alarm means a false alarm which is counted against the permittee for the purpose of determining when and the amount of any alarm fee to be assessed pursuant to O.P.M.C. Section 5.06.050.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. I.
    City means the City of Overland Park, Kansas.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. J.
    False alarm means an alarm signal, eliciting an urgent response by police when a situation requiring an urgent response does not, in fact, exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature. A false alarm may be the result of, but not limited to, mechanical or electronic failure, malfunction, improper installation, improper adjustment, accidental tripping, misoperation, misuse, defect or negligence of a person. The burden of proving that such alarm was not a false alarm shall be on the alarm user.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. K.
    Local alarm system means an alarm system which when activated causes an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated and is intended to be seen and/or heard by others outside of the protected premises.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. L.
    Nonchargeable false alarm means a false alarm that, due to type, cause or circumstance, will not be counted against the permittee for the purpose of determining when and the amount of any false alarm fee to be assessed pursuant to O.P.M.C. Section 5.06.050.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. M.
    Non-response means police officers will not be dispatched to investigate a report of a burglary alarm system alarm signal.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. N.
    Notice means, unless otherwise specified herein, written notice, given by personal service upon the addressee, or given by United States mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the persons to be notified at his or her last known address. Service of such notice shall be effective upon completion of personal service, or upon placing of the same in the custody of the United States Postal Service.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. O.
    Panic Alarm means an alarm device or system designated to be victim activated to alert others to the existence of an emergency.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. P.

    Permit year means a twelve-month period beginning on January 1 of each year and ending on December 31 of the same year.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. Q.
    Police Chief means the Chief of Police of the City of Overland Park, Kansas, or his or her designee.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. R.
    Primary trunkline means a telephone line leading into the communications center of the Overland Park, Kansas, Police Department that is for the purpose of handling emergency calls on a person-to-person basis and which line is identified by a specific listing among the emergency numbers in the telephone directory issued by the telephone company serving the City.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. S.
    Proprietary system means an alarm system sounding and/or recording alarm and supervisory signals to a control center located within the protected premises, the control center being under the supervision of the proprietor of the premises. If a proprietary system includes a signal line connected directly or by means of an automatic dialing device to a police communications system, a central station protective system or answering service, it thereby becomes an "alarm system" as defined in this Section.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. T.
    Robbery alarm system means an alarm system designed to be person-activated signaling a robbery or attempted robbery.

Effective on: 1/1/1901

  1. U.
    Secondary trunkline means a telephone line leading into the central switchboard in the Overland Park City Hall that is identified by a specific listing in the telephone directory for handling administrative and other calls on a person-to-person basis.

(History: Ord. APD-3040 §1, 2014; APD-1982 §1, 96; APD-1957 §1, 95; APD-1809 §1, 93; APD-1336 §1, 85; APD-1140 §1, 81; APD-713)

Effective on: 1/1/1901