[Amended 4-11-2000 by Ord. No. 1893]
In the event that any burglar alarm issues a
false signal, whether such signal is from a device issuing an audible
or visible signal and attached to the outside of a building or structure
within the Borough of Hasbrouck Heights or from a device which directly
or indirectly signals the Police Department of the Borough of Hasbrouck
Heights, the permittee or registrant of such burglar alarm shall be
subject to the following:
A. Upon the second false alarm in any year, a warning
from the Chief of Police of the possible future imposition of the
terms of this article.
B. Upon the third through sixth false alarms in any year, the imposition of additional permit or registration fees as set forth in Chapter
133, Fees.
C. Upon the seventh false alarm in any year, the Chief
of Police shall cause an investigation to be made of the reasons for
the continued issuance of the false alarms and shall report the same
to the Mayor and Council. The Mayor and Council shall then, upon public
hearing with notice to the permittee or registrant of the particular
device, determine whether the permittee or registrant has made a reasonable
effort to prevent future issuances of false alarms, and if it fails
to find that such reasonable efforts have been made, it shall revoke
the permit or registration of said device. The continued use of said
device thereafter shall be in violation of the ordinances which require
the issuance of a permit for or the registration of such devices,
and the person, firm or corporation continuing to use such device
shall be subject to prosecution or such other penalties as provided
in those ordinances.
In the event that any permittee or registrant
fails to pay the additional permit or registration fee assessed herein
within 20 days of the delivery of the written notice of the Police
Department of such assessment, the Chief of Police may revoke the
permit or registration of such alarm device, and the person, firm
or corporation continuing to use such device shall be subject to prosecution
or such other penalty as provided in the ordinance under which the
permit or registration was issued.
For the purposes of this article, the following
terms shall have the meanings indicated:
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm or signal, whether audible, visible or broadcast
telephonically, activated by inadvertence, negligence, the intentional
or unintentional act of a person other than an intruder and mechanical
failure resulting from the improper installation or maintenance of
the system.
It shall be presumed that a burglar alarm issued
is a false alarm when no evidence is found of any attempted improper
entry of the premises and also when it can be reasonably adduced that
the alarm could have only resulted from either the improper or negligent
installation, maintenance or operation of the system.