[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees
of the Village of Centre Island 5-5-1980 by L.L. No. 2-1980;
amended in its entirety 6-16-1994 by L.L. No. 1-1994. Subsequent amendments
noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations
and standards applicable to the operation and maintenance of alarm
devices and alarm users as defined in this chapter.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
definitions shall apply:
Any device which is intended to be activated by a criminal
act or by fire, smoke or other emergency requiring Centre Island Police
or the Bayville Fire Department or other Fire Department response,
transmits a signal to the Nassau County police or fire headquarters
or to a private central alarm station and/or produces an audible or
visible signal to which the Centre Island Police or Fire Department
is expected to respond. Excluded from this definition and from the
coverage of this chapter are alarm devices which are designated to
alert or signal persons within the premises in which the alarm device
is installed of an attempted unauthorized intrusion, holdup, fire
or other emergency and is not intended to alert persons outside the
premises.
Any police or fire alarm device or aggregation of police
or fire alarm devices installed on or within a single building or
within more than one building or area adjacently located on a common
site, at a specific location.
A committee consisting of one or more of the following: Mayor,
Fire Commissioner and Police Commissioner. The function of the "Alarm
Review Board" shall be to review and make recommendations with respect
to all disputes arising out of violations of this chapter, false alarm
penalties and alarm device malfunctions.
Any person on whose premises an alarm is owned, operated,
used or maintained.
A telephone device or telephone attachment that automatically
or electronically selects a telephone line connected to Nassau County
police or fire headquarters and reproduces a prerecorded message to
report a criminal act or emergency requiring the Centre Island Police
or the Bayville Fire Department or any fire department response.
Any alarm device which transmits a signal over a leased telephone
line or airways to a private central alarm station.
Any alarm resulting from the activation of an alarm device,
to which the Centre Island Police or the Bayville Fire Department
or any fire department responds, which is not the result of a robbery,
burglary or other crime, violation, fire or emergency.
Any alarm device not connected to the private central alarm
station which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visible signaling
device to be activated on the exterior of the premises within which
the device is located.
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in the
alarm device which results in a false alarm but which is not caused
by any fault or negligence on the part of the alarm device owner or
operator.
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal
is initiated by the direct action of the alarm user.
A.
Any owner or lessee of property having an alarm device
or system of devices on his or its premises or any user of services
of such equipment shall violate this chapter and be subject to fines
as hereafter defined for each false alarm to which the Centre Island
Police or the Bayville Fire Department or any fire department responds
in each calendar year, as follows:
[Amended 12-14-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
B.
Written notice of the violation, together with the
list of penalties to the owner, lessee or user of the premises upon
which said alarm system is located, shall be provided.
C.
Any alarm owner, lessee or user charged with a false
violation may appeal such violation, in writing, to the Alarm Review
Board within 10 days after receipt of the notice and may appear before
the Alarm Review Board at a reasonable time and place to be determined
by the Board.
D.
The above penalties may be paid to the Village Court
without an appearance if the maximum fine which may be imposed is
paid.
E.
Increases
and decreases in fees and charges may hereby be modified by or changed
by the Board of Trustees by simple resolution and shall not require
a local law change.
[Added 12-14-2011 by L.L. No. 3-2011]
The Centre Island Police Department, the Bayville
Fire Department and the Village of Centre Island shall be under no
obligation whatsoever concerning the adequacy, the operation or the
maintenance of any alarm device, and the Village of Centre Island
and its authorized agents hereby assume no liability whatsoever for
any failure of such alarm device or devices or for the failure to
respond to any such alarms or for any act of omission or commission
as a result of any such alarm, device or system.
No person shall use or cause or permit to be
used any alarm device that automatically selects a telephone trunk
line of the Nassau County Police or Fire Department and then reproduces
any prerecorded voice messages to report any robbery, burglary, fire
or other emergency, except in conjunction with the regulations and
directions of the Police Chief of the Village of Centre Island and/or
the requirements of the Nassau County Police Department and/or the
Bayville Fire Department.
None of the provisions of this chapter shall
apply to an alarm device or devices installed in a motor vehicle or
trailer nor to employees of a public utility company engaged in the
business of providing communications, services or facilities.
Alarm systems which are interconnected or otherwise
transmit signals directly to the Nassau County Police Department Communications
Bureau shall be subject to the laws, rules and regulations and penalties
adopted by Nassau County relating to such system.
