Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 436M-4

  • Alarm business: means any individual, corporation, or other business entity that engages in selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system in or on any building, place, or premises, except motor vehicles. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 436M-1
  • False alarm: means any alarm activation that is communicated to the police but that is not in response to an actual or threatened criminal act. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 436M-1

Alarm businesses that maintain, service, or monitor alarm systems shall, upon request by the police, share with them the data about false alarms and alarm systems in operation needed to determine the monthly false alarm rate for each alarm business. Data obtained from each alarm business shall be used by the police only for statistical purposes and shall not be released to others. Alarm businesses and the police shall cooperate to reduce to a minimum the number of false alarms reported to the police.