There is designated in the Town of Lloyd a public official to be known
as the "Fire Inspector," who shall be appointed by the Town Board.
Fees shall be as prescribed by the current fee schedule as adopted by
the Town Board.
All buildings constructed after the effective date of this chapter shall
have installed electric-wired smoke detectors on all occupied levels prior
to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy. In buildings existing as of
the effective date of this chapter, battery-operated smoke detectors shall
be installed on all occupied levels.
The Fire Inspector shall keep official records of all permits, inspection
reports, recommendations, complaints and violation orders.
It is the purpose of this article to protect and promote the health,
safety and general welfare of the residents of the Town of Lloyd by reducing
the number of avoidable alarms to emergency agencies. Avoidable alarms contribute
to ineffective utilization of public safety manpower and equipment. In addition,
avoidable alarms require emergency responses which may contribute to a high
accident rate and delayed responses to genuine emergencies. This article seeks
to ensure that police and fire communications and ambulance facilities will
be available to dispatch police, fire and ambulance personnel for actual emergencies
and to alleviate the nuisance of audible alarms in the Town. Another purpose
of this article is to provide the Town and emergency agencies with the names
of responsible people to contact in the case of activation of an alarm.
ALARM SYSTEM — A device or an assembly of equipment
which emits an audible response which is intended to alert persons outside
a premises to the existence of a hazard or emergency or which is intended
to alert emergency agencies by automatically dialing or signaling an emergency
agency or which is connected to a private answering point for the purpose
of reporting such alarms to emergency agencies or which is directly connected
to the County Fire Control Center or other emergency agency.
ALARM USER
Any person who owns, leases or uses an alarm system within the Town
of Lloyd except for a person whose alarm system is on a motor vehicle or is
a proprietary system. If, however, an alarm system is at a premises (other
than a proprietary system) in the Town of Lloyd, the person using such system
is an "alarm user."
AVOIDABLE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure, malfunction,
improper installation or the negligence of the owner, user, custodian or lessee
of an alarm system, or his/her employees or agents, or through any other cause
which, through direct connection to an emergency agency or through notification
of an emergency agency by a private answering point or automatic dialing device
or through notification to an emergency agency by any second party or means,
indicates that an emergency situation exists requiring response within the
Town when, in fact, an emergency situation does not exist. An "avoidable alarm"
also includes the knowing or intentional activation of an alarm to an emergency
agency when the activator knows that an emergency situation does not exist.
"Avoidable alarm" does not include alarms activated by violent conditions
of nature, such as hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or any other similar
cause beyond the control of the user of the alarm system. Activation of an
alarm system under any circumstances where the activator reasonably believes
that an emergency situation exists is not an "avoidable alarm." Notwithstanding
any language to the contrary, the defective installation of an alarm system,
the failure to repair or cause to be repaired an alarm system or the use of
defective equipment in connection with an alarm system shall not constitute
an extraordinary circumstance beyond the reasonable control of the alarm user.
EMERGENCY AGENCY
Any Police Department, Fire Department or other law enforcement agency
or ambulance company, private or public, or other agency summoned to respond
to an emergency situation and any public safety answering point serving the
Town of Lloyd.
LOCAL ALARM SYSTEM
A signaling system which, when activated, causes an audible signaling
device to be activated outside the premises on which the system is installed.
NOTICE ADDRESS
The address which an alarm user designates on the application for
a permit as the address to which notices are to be sent.
PERSON
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, company
or organization of any kind.
PRIVATE ANSWERING POINT
A business which offers the service of receiving emergency signals,
monitoring said signals and relaying them to an emergency agency.
PROPRIETARY SYSTEM
An alarm, sounding and/or recording within the premises protected
by the alarm, which is not intended to alert persons outside of the premises
on which the alarm system is located of a possible hazard and not intended
to alert an emergency agency, the control center being under the supervision
of the proprietor of the protected premises. If a "proprietary system" includes
a signal line connected directly or by means of an automatic device to an
emergency agency or to a private answering point or to a local alarm system,
it thereby becomes an "alarm system" as defined in this chapter.
The provisions and requirements of this article shall apply to all persons
who are alarm users on the effective date of this article and to all persons
who subsequently become alarm users.
If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or word of this
article is for any reason held to be invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction,
such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
article.