[Amended 7-9-2018 by L.L.
No. 2-2018]
The purpose of this chapter is to establish standards and control
of the various types of intrusion, holdup, fire and other emergency
signals from fire alarm or police alarm devices that require Police
or Fire Department response, investigation and safeguarding of property
at the location of an event reported by a signal which is transmitted
by telephone or radio or which is otherwise relayed to the police
by an alarm device requiring investigation. This chapter establishes
procedures for regulation and licensing of property owners who maintain
such alarm devices and systems at their premises in order to provide
control of the proliferation, use and activation of the same. All
emergency medical monitoring and alarm systems shall be exempt from
this chapter.
[Amended 7-9-2018 by L.L.
No. 2-2018]
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
ALARM
Any alarm device designed to be actuated by a criminal act
or other emergency, including fire, at a specific location or by a
victim of a holdup, robbery, fire or other emergency or criminal act
at a specific location which produces an audible or visual signal
designed to notify any person within audible or visible alarm range
of the signal.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any alarm, fire alarm or police alarm device or aggregation
of alarm, fire alarm or police alarm devices installed on or within
a single building or on or within more than one building or area adjacently
located on a common site at a specific location.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any facility operated by a private firm that owns or leases
a system of alarm, fire alarm or police alarm devices, which facility
is manned by operators who receive, record or validate alarm signals
and relay information about such validated signals to the police when
appropriate.
DIAL ALARM
Any alarm, fire alarm or police alarm device which is a telephone
device or telephone attachment that automatically or electronically
selects a telephone line connected to a central alarm station or police
headquarters and reproduces a prerecorded message to report a criminal
act or other emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any alarm, fire alarm or police alarm device connected directly,
by leased telephone wires, from a specified location to police headquarters.
FALSE ALARM
Any signal actuated by an alarm to which the Police or Fire
Department responds, which is not the result of a holdup, robbery
or other crime or emergency.
FIRE ALARM OR POLICE ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when actuated by a criminal act, fire or
other emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response, transmits
a prerecorded message or other signal by telephone, radio or other
means to a central alarm station or directly to the Police Department
or Fire Department.
INTRUSION
Any entry into an area or building equipped with one or more
alarm, fire alarm or police alarm devices or any person or object
whose entry actuates an alarm, fire alarm or police alarm device.
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The Village Board of Trustees of the Village of Pleasantville
or its designee.
MALFUNCTION
The written certification of an alarm service company authorized
to do business in the State of New York that an alarm or police alarm
device which activated a false alarm was due to a fault in the alarm
or police alarm device system, but without any fault or negligence
on the part of the homeowner.
POLICE OR FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONSE
Any action taken by the Police Department or Fire Department
to investigate, respond to or dispatch emergency services to the location
indicated by an alarm or fire alarm or police alarm device.
VILLAGE
The Village of Pleasantville.
[Amended 4-28-1997 by L.L. No. 4-1997]
Unless otherwise provided by the Penal Law,
any person, firm or corporation who does not pay any charge or fee
established in this chapter or who violates any provision in this
chapter shall be subject to a fine of not more than $500 or imprisonment
for not more than 15 days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense
shall be deemed committed upon each day during which a violation occurs,
is committed or continues.