The purpose of this article is to provide regulations
and standards applicable to the installation of fire-alarm systems
that require Fire Department response, so as to ensure competent standards
of workmanship and thereby lessen the possibility of false alarms
resulting from malfunctions of unrecognized installations.
For the purpose of this article, the following
terms, phrases and words shall have the meaning given therein:
ALARM AGENT
Any person who is employed by any commercial entity that
is licensed hereunder as an alarm business whose activities include
selling, leasing, installing, repairing, servicing or maintaining
in or on any building, place or premises any fire alarm device within
the Village of Patchogue.
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business, firm, corporation or other commercial entity
which is in the business of selling, leasing, installing, repairing,
servicing or maintaining a fire alarm device or devices and perform
such services within the Village of Patchogue.
ALARM USER
Any person or entity in or on whose premises a fire alarm
device is installed in the Village of Patchogue.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any private or commercial entity which receives signals from
fire alarm devices within the Village of Patchogue and relays information
pertaining to such fire alarm devices to the appropriate Fire Department
headquarters.
DIALER ALARM
A telephone-interfaced device that automatically connects
to local Fire Department headquarters and transmits a recorded message
to report an emergency condition requiring Fire Department response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any fire alarm device which transmits a signal or impulse
through any means received by Fire Departments.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm activation to which Fire Department personnel respond,
which is not the result of fire, smoke or other emergency.
FIRE ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated by fire, smoke or other
emergency requiring local Fire Department response, transmits a signal
to local Fire Department headquarters or to a private central alarm
station and/or produces any audible or visible signal to which the
local Fire Department is expected to respond. Excluded from this definition
and from the provisions of this article are devices designed to alert
the occupants of a building of any emergency condition therein and
which do not produce any audible or visible signal which is perceptible
outside of such building.
LOCAL ALARM
Any fire alarm device which is not connected directly to
local Fire Department headquarters but which, when activated, causes
an audible or visible signal perceptible to persons on the outside
of the premises within which said fire alarm device is installed.
LOCAL FIRE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS
Fire Department headquarters and other enclosures housing
privately or publicly owned equipment serving the Fire Department
throughout the Village.
Unlawful to operate, maintain, install, lease
or sell a fire alarm device without a permit. It shall be unlawful
for any person, business, firm, corporation or other commercial entity
to operate, maintain, install, lease or sell a fire alarm device or
devices or a system of fire alarm devices as defined by the terms
of this article without first obtaining a permit as hereinafter provided.
Fees for permits required by this article, as
listed below, shall be as set from time to time by resolution of the
Board of Trustees:
B. For an owner or lessee permit.
Prior to actual use of a fire alarm device or
system, a certificate of compliance must be issued by the Fire Inspector
certifying that the following conditions have been met:
A. The owner or lessee is to furnish appropriate proof
that the fire alarm device and/or system, including wiring and all
component parts, is installed according to all applicable codes and
regulations.
B. A thorough and complete test of all facets of the
fire alarm device and/or system upon notice to the appropriate local
Fire Department headquarters, is to be made in the presence of the
Fire Inspector.
All fire alarm devices and/or systems, installed
and operating within the Village, are to be tested at least once every
six months pursuant to recognized testing procedures. Said testing
is to be undertaken only after adequate notice has been received by
the local Fire Department headquarters.