This article is intended to regulate the activities and responsibilities of persons who purchase, rent or use and persons who own or conduct the business of selling, leasing, renting, installing, maintaining or monitoring alarm systems, devices or services. It is further intended to encourage the improvement in reliability of these systems, devices and services and to insure that Police and Fire Department personnel will not be unduly diverted from responding to actual criminal, fire, and emergency medical activity as a result of responding to false alarms. This article specifically encompasses audible and inaudible (silent) "burglar alarms," "robbery alarms," "holdup alarms," "panic alarms," and "fire alarms". The provisions of this Article shall not apply to audible alarms affixed to motor vehicles, smoke detectors or fire alarms in single-family residences that are not connected to an alarm monitoring company or, except as provided in Section 10-86.01(C), alarm systems that are operated by the County, State, or Federal government and installed on premises which such entity occupies or uses for governmental purposes. (Ord. No. G-1940, § 3; Ord. No. G-2240, § 1; Ord. No. G-2476, § 1; Ord. No. G-3344, § 1; Ord. No. G-4003, § 1, 1997; Ord. No. G-5393, § 1, 2009)