This chapter shall be titled "the North Versailles Township
Alarm System Ordinance."
The following definitions are applicable under this chapter:
ALARM SYSTEM or ALARM SERVICE
Any means used by any subscriber or provider, as those terms
are used in this chapter, for the purpose of notifying or otherwise
utilizing the services or efforts of the North Versailles Township
officials, directly or indirectly, regarding a burglary, attempted
burglary, breaking, breaking and entering, trespassing or any other
act which may or may not be deemed to be a criminal act; or any other
device which is, however, designed to cause some police or official
action or investigation by North Versailles Township officials. It
shall also include any burglar alarm or warning device whatsoever
which results in the summoning of North Versailles Township Police
or Fire Department.
FALSE ALARM
An alert by any alarm system which is or which is intended
to be transferred or transmitted to the North Versailles Township
Police or Fire Department or other Township official, which discloses
following investigation that there was no burglary, attempted burglary,
break-in, breaking and/or entering, or any other act which would ordinarily
have caused the initiation of police investigation, police action
or other official Township action.
PREMISES
Any improvements on real estate which utilize an alarm system.
PROVIDER
Any person or entity in the business of providing alarm systems
or alarm system protection to any premises within the Township of
North Versailles.
SUBSCRIBER
Any owner, user, occupier, or lessor of any type of premises
which are equipped with an alarm system, whether installed maintained
and serviced by a provider, any other entity or the subscriber.
Every provider of alarm system to premises within the Township
of North Versailles must register with the Township Secretary within
90 days of the effective date of this chapter. If any provider intends
to provide alarm systems or service hereinafter, said provider must
register with the Township of North Versailles prior to entering into
any contracts or in fact providing such service.
A. The application of every provider shall bear the following data:
the name of the entity, the date of incorporation, the principal office,
the name of its liability insurance carrier with policy number and
coverage, names and addresses of all officers, name and address of
the person in charge of services to be rendered in North Versailles
Township, a telephone number or numbers where the North Versailles
Township Police or officials may have access to a responsible person
24 hours per day, every day of the year.
B. The provider must supply a written explanation of how the provider's
alarm system works.
C. The provider must provide a list enumerating the name and address
of every entity and premises to which the provider provides alarm
services in the Township of North Versailles. This list must be updated
to include additions and deletions every three months; that is, on
the first day of January, April, July and October of each year.
D. The Secretary shall keep a record of all such applications, shall
supply a duplicate copy to the Chief of Police, and may request other
reasonable data as the Secretary sees fit. It shall be the duty of
the Chief of Police to record each and every false alarm as defined
herein and to report the same to the Secretary by the first day of
the following month.
[Amended 11-16-1987 by Ord. No. 857; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 867]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600 and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 30 days.