The purpose of this chapter is to establish standards and controls of
the various types of fire, intrusion, holdup and other emergency signals from
fire and police alarm services that require Fire Department police responses,
investigation or safeguarding of property at the location of an event reported
by a signal which is transmitted by telephone or radio to the Police or Fire
Department from a central station as hereinafter defined.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any fire or police alarm device or aggregation of fire or police
alarm devices installed on or within a single building or on or within more
than one (1) 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 fire or police alarm devices, which facility is manned by operators who
receive, record or validate signals to the Police or Fire Department when
appropriate.
DIAL ALARM
Any fire 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 the Police or
Fire Department.
DIRECT ALARM
Any fire or police alarm device connected directly by leased telephone
wires from the specified location to police headquarters or the Fire Department.
EMERGENCY ALARM
Any fire or police alarm device designed to be activated by a fire,
criminal act or other emergency at a specific location or by a victim of a
holdup, robbery or other emergency or criminal act at a specific location.
FALSE EMERGENCY ALARM
Any signal activated by an emergency alarm to which the Fire or Police
Department responds which is not the result of a fire, holdup, robbery or
other crime or emergency.
FIRE DEPARTMENTS
The Fire Department of the Village of Greenport and buildings occupied
by the Greenport Fire Department and their respective protection areas.
FIRE OR POLICE ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated by a fire, criminal act 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 or Fire Department or produces an audible
or visible signal designed to notify persons within audible or visible alarm
range of the signal.
INTRUSION
Any entry into an area or building equipped with one (1) or more
fire and police alarm devices by any person or object whose entry actuates
a fire or police alarm device.
POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Police headquarters and other enclosures housing privately or publicly
owned equipment serving the police.
Any property owner or lessee of property in the Village of Greenport
having on his or its premises a fire or police alarm device or system of fire
or police alarm devices shall apply to the licensing authority for a permit
to own or otherwise have such device on his or its premises. The application
shall contain provisions relating to the device or system of devices installed
or to be installed on the premises. No such device may be installed on the
premises of the owner or lessee and no presently existing fire or police alarm
device complying with the provisions of this chapter shall be modified after
the effective date of this chapter prior to the licensing authority's having
issued a permit to such owner or lessee. Such permit shall be valid for a
period of one (1) year from issuance and must be renewed upon expiration.
It shall be a violation of this chapter to intentionally cause a false
emergency alarm, and any person who does intentionally cause a false emergency
alarm shall be subject to the penalty provisions hereof.
If any part or parts of this chapter are for any reason held to be invalid,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
chapter. The Village Board hereby declares that it would have passed the local
law enacting this chapter and each section, subsection, sentence, clause and
phrase thereof irrespective of the fact that any one (1) or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases might be declared invalid.
Any person, firm or corporation who or which does not pay any charge
or fee established in this chapter or who or which violates any provision
of this chapter shall be subject to a fine not in excess of two hundred fifty
dollars ($250.) for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed
upon each day during which a violation occurs or is committed, and such violation
may constitute disorderly conduct, in which every such person shall be a disorderly
person.