[Adopted 2-25-1985 by Ord. No. 1304]
There shall be hereby established the sole and
exclusive system for the direct receipt by the Police Department of
the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights of any and all signals from automatic
fire and burglar alarm systems installed upon any premises within
the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights and of any and all automatic fire
alarm systems installed upon any premises within the Borough of Teterboro,
including both such signals transmitted directly by the alarm system
as well as such signals directed from the system to a central office
and then to the Police Department, including but not limited to signals
transmitted by automatic dialers.
There shall be installed, operated and maintained,
at such place, of such type and in such manner as the Chief of Police
shall direct, within the Police Department a special separate telephone
having a number different from those numbers used by that Department
for other purposes, which shall be operated and maintained solely
for the direct receipt of the aforesaid automatic alarm signals, and
forthwith, no such direct automatic alarm signals shall be received
by said Department by any other means except for those alarms for
which there is presently in force a valid permit under Ordinance No.
963[1] and then for only as long as such current valid permit
shall exist.
[1]
Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 963, adopted
3-11-1969, was the prior Alarm Systems Ordinance which has been superseded
by the provisions of this article.
The owner and operator of any direct automatic
fire and/or burglar alarm referred to herein and permitted hereunder
shall operate and maintain such alarm system so that it shall automatically
communicate its alarm signal to the Police Department only upon the
special, separate telephone line established hereby and upon no other
telephone lines or consoles within said Department. Such maintenance
and operation shall be subject to the reasonable conditions imposed
thereon by the Chief of Police.
[Amended 5-27-1986 by Ord. No. 1357]
A.
No person, firm or corporation shall install, operate
or maintain any fire or burglar alarm system which automatically issues
a direct signal or alarm to the Police Department of the Borough of
Hasbrouck Heights unless and until a permit has been issued therefor.
B.
The Borough Clerk is hereby authorized to issue such
permits upon the approval by the Chief of Police of the application
therefor. Such application shall include:
(1)
The location of the device.
(2)
The name, address and telephone number of the owner
of the premises.
(3)
The name, address and telephone number of the tenant
or principal occupant of the premises.
(4)
The name, address and telephone number of the installer
of the device.
(5)
The name, address and telephone number of the person
or company responsible for the maintenance of the device.
(6)
The name, address and telephone number of the person
who may be contacted when an alarm is received.
(7)
The type of device.
(8)
The provisions to be made for the testing of such
device.
C.
Such application shall be approved by the Chief of
Police upon his satisfaction that the application is truthful and
complete, that the equipment is of such type and caliber as to not
unreasonably issue false alarms and that the operator shall undertake
such reasonable testing and maintenance to avoid the issuance of false
alarms.
D.
An initial permit fee as set forth in Chapter 133, Fees, for each one- or two-family owner-occupied dwelling or any other premises shall be collected upon the making of application for said permit, and all such permits shall expire on the 31st day of December of each year; thereafter, the annual fee shall be as set forth in Chapter 133, Fees. Any person, firm or corporation holding a currently valid permit under Ordinance No. 963[1] may apply for a permit under the provisions of this article
without the payment of said fee upon application, as provided herein,
and compliance with the terms hereof. As to any one- or two-family
owner-occupied dwelling which presently includes an alarm system governed
by the terms of this chapter but which has never been registered and
for which a permit has never been issued in accordance herewith, the
initial permit fee shall be waived if application is made before July
1, 1995. In the event that the permit lapses or is revoked, a new
application shall be required, and an initial permit fee shall be
collected.
[Amended 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538; 1-24-1995 by Ord. No.
1696]
[1]
Editor's Note: Ordinance No. 963, adopted
3-11-1969, was the prior Alarm Systems Ordinance which has been superseded
by the provisions of this article.
All systems permitted hereunder shall be installed
and maintained according to the reasonable requirements of the Chief
of Police and at least as follows:
A.
All dial alarms shall be coded as well to notify a
relative, neighbor or other third party who shall be named in the
registration required by this article.
B.
All dial alarms shall be capable of being disconnected
by the owner to permit a call to the police switchboard in the event
that a false alarm occurs.
C.
The contents of any recorded message from a dial alarm
must be intelligible and in a format approved by the Chief of Police.
No such message shall be transmitted more than three times as a result
of a single stimulus of mechanism. Messages shall not exceed 15 seconds,
and the time gap between delivery shall be approximately 10 seconds.
D.
The sensory mechanism of dial alarms shall be adjusted
so as to suppress false indications and not be actuated by impulses
due to pressure changes in water pipes, short flashes of light, wind,
noises, rattling, or vibration of doors or windows or other forces
unrelated to general alarms.
E.
All components of dial alarms shall be maintained
by the owner in good repair. When evidence exists that there has been
failure to comply with the operational requirements of this article,
the Chief of Police is then authorized to demand that such device
be disconnected until such time as compliance with such requirements
is reestablished.
Upon failure by any permittee hereunder to comply
with the terms and conditions provided herein or with the reasonable
requirements imposed by the Chief of Police as provided herein, the
Mayor and Council of the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights, upon notice
to the permittee and upon public hearing, may revoke the permit issued
hereunder.
[Amended 5-29-1990 by Ord. No. 1538; 2-10-2009 by Ord. No. 2201]
In addition to the revocation of any permit issued hereunder, upon failure to comply with the provisions of this article or with any of the reasonable requirements and regulations imposed by the Chief of Police pursuant hereto, any person, firm or corporation found guilty of such violation shall be subject to such penalties as are provided in Chapter 204 of this Code.
Nothing contained herein shall be construed
to exempt any permittee from compliance with or liability under any
other ordinance with respect to the installation, operation or maintenance
of any alarm system to which this article applies.
