The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations and standards
applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses, alarm agents and alarm
users as defined in this chapter.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
A signal transmitted to police headquarters which is intended
to notify the Police Department of a burglary or robbery at a premises
within the City of Glens Falls to which the Police Department is expected
to respond.
Any individual who is employed by any person registered hereunder
as conducting the business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing,
leasing or selling alarm devices whose duties include any of the following:
selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing,
moving or installing in or on any building, place or premises any
alarm device as defined in this chapter, within the City of Glens
Falls.
Any person engaged in the business of owning, operating,
maintaining, installing, leasing, or selling an alarm device or devices
or system of alarm devices, which business is, as owner, operator,
provider of maintenance service, installer, lessor or seller of said
device, devices or system of devices, subject to the registration
requirements of this chapter.
Any device which, when activated, transmits a signal to a
central alarm station and/or produces an audible or visible signal
to which the Police Department is expected to respond.
Any alarm device or aggregation of alarm devices installed
on or within a single building or on or within more than one building
or area adjacently located on a common site, at a specific location.
Any person on whose premises an alarm device is owned, operated,
used or maintained.
Any facility operated by a private firm that receives and
verifies alarm signals and relays information about such verified
signals to the Police Department. The police will not verify alarm
signals transmitted from central alarm stations, nor does it imply
that the police are required to record and verify alarm signals received
from anyone.
A telephone device, telephone attachment, radio transmitter
or any other device not further defined in this section that automatically
or electronically selects a transmission path directly to the central
alarm station to report a burglary or robbery requiring Police Department
response.
Any alarm resulting from the activation of an alarm device
to which the Police Department responds and which is not the result
of a robbery or burglary.
Any alarm device not connected to a central alarm station
which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visible signaling
device to be activated at the premises on or within which the device
is installed. Any such alarm device must be installed so that it will
automatically turn itself off after 10 minutes.
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in an alarm
device which results in a false alarm.
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal
is initiated by the direct action of the alarm user.
Any natural person or any other entity.
The City of Glens Falls.
Acknowledgment that an alarm has been received at police
headquarters by an act of answering a telephone call, noting information
received and starting any process of response, such as notifying vehicles
of receipt of an alarm or any other act commencing the process of
acting as a Police Department on account of such notification.
Qualification of the legitimacy of an alarm signal by various
means which may under normal conditions include, but shall not be
limited to, customer call-in, central station call-out, automatic
abort or built in delay.
