The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations
and standards applicable to alarm devices and alarm users and to provide
a schedule of charges applicable for false alarms transmitted through
such devices.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated by an unauthorized entry,
fire, smoke or other emergency requiring Police Department or Fire
Department response, transmits a recorded message or signal to police
headquarters or to a private control alarm station and/or produces
any audible or visual signal to which the Police Department or Fire
Department is expected to respond. Excluded from this definition and
from the provisions of this chapter are devices designed to alert
the occupants of a building of an emergency condition therein and
which do not produce any audible or visual signal which is perceptible
outside of such building. Also excluded from the definition and the
provisions of this chapter are "alarm devices" installed in or on
any motor vehicle.
ALARM REVIEW BOARD
A committee consisting of the following: the Village Administrator
or his/her designee; the Police Chief or his/her designee; the Fire
Chief or his/her designee; and the Village Clerk or his/her designee.
ALARM USER
Any person or entity on whose premises an alarm device is
installed in the Village of Tarrytown.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any private or commercial entity which receives signals from
alarm devices within the Village of Tarrytown and relays information
pertaining to such alarm devices to police headquarters.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm activation to which Police or Fire Department personnel
respond which is not the result of an unauthorized entry, fire, smoke
or other emergency.
LOCAL ALARM
Any alarm device which is not connected to a private central
alarm station but which, when activated, causes an audible or visual
signal perceptible to persons on the outside of the premises within
which said alarm device is installed.
MALFUNCTION
A deficiency or other failure of an alarm device which results
in a false alarm but which is not attributable to any fault or negligence
on the part of the alarm device user.