The purpose of this chapter is to alleviate conditions which
lead to an unnecessary drain on the manpower, time, space, facilities,
and finances of the Town of Belvidere to the Police and Fire Departments
and deterioration of the quality of services to persons subscribing
to alarms services. All alarms sent to the Town must be by dial alarm.
An annunciator control panel shall not be provided by the Town.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any person, other
than the Town, who operates, maintains or owns any alarm device designed
to summon police, fire department or other municipal agency to any
location in response to any type of alarm signal. Excluded from the
provisions of this chapter are interior sound, battery-operated smoke
alarms. The terms of this chapter shall in no way prohibit alarm companies
from providing services by private source to other offices within
or without the Town so long as such activity is not connected to the
alarm panel or telephone at the Police headquarters.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm, actuating equipment, which provides warning
of intrusion, fire, smoke, burglary, flood or like peril.
ALARM SYSTEM
The installment in one or more buildings of one or more alarm
devices for the express purpose of giving visual or audible warning,
or both, of an emergency such as burglary, intrusion, fire, smoke,
flood or like perils.
ANNUNCIATOR CONTROL PANEL
That component installed in the console in Police headquarters
containing alarm indications and designations.
DIAL ALARM
An alarm device that employs an automatic dialing system
with an automatic cutoff, precoded to connect with a telephone in
Police headquarters rather than to the control panel.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system by causes other than those
to which the alarm system was designed or intended to respond.
LOCAL ALARM
Any mechanism that constitutes, in whole or in part, an alarm
system that may or may not be designed to activate the annunciator
control panel in Police headquarters or at a private company at a
location other than the property of the Town of Belvidere. Local alarms
also include any alarm device or alarm system that provides warning
signals only at the property location.