(b) “False Alarm” is any signal created by an alarm system (including but not limited to alarm signals initiated by human error (which signal directly or indirectly notifies Safety Department personnel of the occurrence of a burglary, robbery, other criminal offense, fire emergency or medical emergency when no such emergency exists and when police, fire, or emergency medical personnel are not needed to respond to a burglary, robbery, other criminal offense, fire emergency or medical emergency.

(c) “Subscriber” is any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or entity who or which purchases, leases, contracts for, or obtains an alarm system.

(d) “Vendor” is any person, firm, corporation, partnership, or entity associated with an alarm business or company, either indirectly or directly, whose duties include but are not limited to any of the following: selling, replacing, moving, repairing, maintaining, or installing an alarm system on or in any structure, building, or facility.

(a) Duties of Subscriber. It shall be the responsibility of each subscriber to see that the standards of installation and maintenance set forth in this Chapter are adhered to.

(b) Duties of Vendor. It shall be the responsibility of any vendor causing installation of or maintaining an alarm system to cause such installation or maintenance to conform to the requirements of the Fire Code and the Electric Code applicable in this City of Oakwood.

(c) Duty of Both Subscriber and of Vendor. Each alarm system shall be utilized only for the purposes of summoning the Public Safety Department for emergency and/or life hazard situations. Without the prior express consent of the Public Safety Department, systems shall not be tested so as to transmit a signal to the Public Safety Department when an emergency or life hazard situation does not exist. It shall be the responsibility of each subscriber and also each vendor not to make such tests.

(a) Notification. Each subscriber must provide to the City of Oakwood on a form provided by the Department of Public Safety the name, address, and telephone number of the subscriber and of the vendor, if any, with whom the subscriber has contracted for maintenance of the alarm system. Each subscriber shall also provide the City with the names, addresses, and phone numbers of those persons (not less than one) who can be contacted 24 hours a day and seven days a week to turn off or deactivate an alarm system. It shall be the obligation of the subscriber to keep this information current and correct through supplementary notifications filed from time to time on the same form.

(b) Designated Telephone Lines. No person shall use or cause to be used an alarm system or device of any kind that automatically dials or calls any telephone line of the offices of the City of Oakwood or any department or division thereof except such telephone line or lines as may be designated by the Public Safety Department of the City for the specific purpose of receiving signals from alarm systems.