It is the intent and purpose of this chapter
to provide minimum standards and regulations applicable to users and
installers of burglar, fire, holdup and automatic telephone dialer
alarms within the Town of Woodbridge and to provide penalties for
noncompliance.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM SYSTEM
An assembly of equipment and devices (or a single device,
such as a solid state unit, which may operate from a one-hundred-ten-volt
AC line) arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent
attention and to which Police or Fire Department personnel are expected
to respond. This includes all burglar alarms, fire alarms, holdup
alarms and automatic telephone dialer alarms, except smoke detectors
which do not signal outside an alarmed premises or alarm systems on
motor vehicles.
ALARM USER
Any person, firm or corporation on whose premises any alarm
system is maintained within the Town.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALING DEVICE
An alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone
lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded message indicating
the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm system is
designed to detect.
FALSE ALARM
The accidental or intentional activation of an alarm system
through mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, or
the negligence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his
employees or agents, resulting in response by fire and/or police personnel.
Alarms caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, other normally
infrequent violent conditions or acts of God shall not be considered
false alarms.