[HISTORY: Adopted by the Township Council
of the Township of River Vale 8-27-1992 by Ord. No. 0-13-92 (Ch. 5 of the 1967
Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide standards
and regulations for various types of burglar, fire, smoke and other
emergency alarm devices within the Township.
This chapter shall apply to any person who operates,
maintains or owns any burglar, fire, smoke or other emergency alarm
device designed to summon the Police Department, Fire Department or
other municipal agencies to any location in response to the alarm.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
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 an emergency agency or
which is connected to a business which offers the service of receiving
emergency signals, monitoring said signals and relaying them to an
emergency agency.
An alarm which is activated in the event of a medical emergency.
Any alarm activated by or resulting from inadvertence, negligence
or an unintentional act of someone other than an intruder and shall
include, as well, alarms caused by malfunction of the alarm device.
Any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association,
company or organization of any kind.
A.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to
emergency medical alarms.
B.
Permits shall be required for alarm systems located
in buildings of federal, state or local governmental agencies or authorities
or in public elementary schools, but said alarm systems shall be exempt
from the permit fee, but said alarms shall be subject to the fines
and penalties herein provided for false alarms.
No person shall own, use, lease, operate or
maintain an alarm system within the Township unless such person shall
have first obtained from the Police Department an alarm user permit
for such alarm as herein provided.
In order to obtain an alarm user permit, any
person who operates an alarm system shall submit an application for
such permit in the form designated by the River Vale Chief of Police,
which application shall contain the following:
A.
The name, home address and telephone number of the
person applying for the permit.
B.
The address of the premises upon which the alarm system
is or will be located.
C.
The type of alarm system for which the permit is sought.
D.
The name, address and telephone number of one or more
persons who can be reached at any time and who are authorized by the
owner of the premises in which the system is installed to open the
premises.
E.
Any other information relating to the alarm system
or the user as the Chief of Police may require.
Upon receipt of a properly executed permit application,
the Chief of Police shall issue an alarm user permit to the applicant.
Alarm user permits shall not be transferable, shall be kept on the
premises where the alarm system is located and shall be made available
for inspection by the Police Department.
[Amended 4-22-1993 by Ord. No. 0-5-93; 8-26-2004 by Ord. No.
0-9-04]
A.
Every application for an alarm user permit shall be
accompanied by a fee of $50 or $15 for applicants over the age of
65.
B.
There shall be required an annual renewal of the alarm
user permit, at a fee of $15 per annum; said renewal procedure to
be administered by the Chief of Police.
[Amended 2-8-2021 by Ord.
No. 373-2021]
A.
In the case of a false alarm, the Police Department
shall cause an investigation to be made and shall keep a record of
said alarms on file.
B.
For such false alarms, the following penalties are
prescribed:
(1)
For the first and second false alarms in any given
calendar year, there shall be a written warning issued.
(2)
For the third false alarm in the same calendar year,
a fine of $25 shall be paid to the Township of River Vale.
(3)
For the fourth false alarm in the same calendar year,
a fine of $50 shall be paid to the Township of River Vale.
(4)
For the fifth false alarm and each false alarm thereafter
in the same calendar year, a fine of $150 shall be paid to the Township
of River Vale.
A.
The Township of River Vale shall be under no duty
or obligation to maintain the police panel alarm system equipment
or any equipment or device connected thereto by a permit holder under
this chapter.
B.
The Police Department of the Township of River Vale
shall be under no obligation whatsoever for the installation, connection,
adequacy, operation or maintenance of the alarm, equipment, device
or systems so installed or connected.
C.
The Township of River Vale shall not be liable for
any failure of such alarm system or equipment.
