This Part 1 shall be known and may be cited
as the "Alarm Devices and Systems Law of the Village of Bronxville,
New York."
The purpose of this Part 1 is to regulate the
use of emergency alarm devices and systems designed to require Police
Department response, investigation and safeguarding of property at
the location of an event reported by such signal. That design will
serve to protect and promote the health, safety and welfare of the
residents of the Village of Bronxville through safer and more efficient
use of alarm devices and systems. It will further serve to reduce
the number of false alarms and to encourage the use and proper maintenance
of reliable emergency signal systems and devices.
For the purpose of this Part 1, the following
definitions shall apply:
A signal transmitted to police headquarters which is intended
to notify the Police Department of a burglary, robbery or other emergency
at a premises within the Village of Bronxville to which which the
Police Department is expected to respond.
[1]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 license requirements
of this Part 1.
Any device which, when activated, transmits a signal to police
headquarters or 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 located on a common site.
A board consisting of three members appointed by the Mayor
subject to approval by the Board of Trustees including the Mayor.
It is recommended that one of the members be a staff member proposed
by the Village Administrator, the Chief of Police or other member
of the Police Department, and a member of the Regional Alarm Association
residing in Westchester County.
[2]A facility owned by the Village of Bronxville and located
at police headquarters, which is monitored by village employees who
receive, record and verify alarm signals transmitted from alarm devices
or from central alarm stations.
Any facility operated by a private firm that receives and
verifies alarm signals and relays information about such verified
signals to the central alarm monitoring facility.
A telephone device or telephone attachment that automatically
or electronically selects a telephone line connected to the central
alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm station to report
a burglary, robbery or other emergency requiring Police Department
response.
Any alarm device which transmits a signal over a leased telephone
line to the central alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm
station.
Any activation of an alarm device, whether intentional or
automatic, that does not emit a valid emergency signal.
The Mayor or a village officer designated by him or her,
which designation shall be filed with the Village Clerk.
Any alarm device not connected to the central alarm monitoring
facility or to a central alarm station which, when activated, causes
an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated at the premises
on or within which the device is installed.
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.
Verification of a false alarm by the Police Department by
phone call only, which results in no officers being dispatched to
the scene of the false alarm.
[3]Any natural person or any other entity capable of being sued.
The Bronxville Police Department.
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 verification, 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, built-in delay.
