The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any person who operates, maintains or owns any alarm system situated in the Township having an audible signaling device or requiring a response by the Police Department, Fire Department or other Township agency. The terms of this chapter shall in no way prohibit alarm companies from providing service by private source to other offices within or without the Township, so long as such activity is not connected to the Township alarm console, except that any person having a premises protected by an alarm system shall nevertheless be responsible for the registration thereof in accordance with §
120-4.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM CONSOLE
The console or control panel of devices giving a visual or
audio response, or both, and located within the confines of the Township
police headquarters.
AUDIBLE SIGNALING DEVICE
Any device, such as a bell, siren, whistle, horn, gong or
klaxon, employed to call attention to and which may be heard beyond
the limits of the property concerned.
CONSOLE ALARM
Any type of alarm device actuating equipment in the alarm
console providing warning of intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or other
peril.
DESIGNATED REPRESENTATIVE
Limited to a member of the Police Department. The "designated
representative" may also function as the alarm system inspector.
DIAL ALARM
That type of automatic telephone dialing device using the
telephone system to transmit an alarm of intrusion, fire, smoke, flood
or other peril to the Police Department.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm activated by inadvertence, negligence or the unintentional
act of someone other than an intruder, including alarms caused by
the malfunctioning of the alarm device or other relevant equipment.
This shall not include alarms created by the malfunctioning of the
alarm console.
LICENSEE
The person obtaining the license to maintain the alarm console,
as hereinafter set forth.
LOCAL ALARM
Any alarm device which when actuated produces an audible
signal to give a warning of intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or other
peril.
PERMITTEE
Any person owning or operating an alarm system within the
scope of this chapter who has been issued a permit to operate such
system.
PERSON
Any individual, natural person, partnership, joint venture, society, association, club, trustee, trust, corporation or unincorporated group; or any officer, agent, employee, servant, factor or any kind of personal representatives of any thereof in any capacity, acting either for himself or herself or for any other person, under either personal appointment or pursuant to law, but shall not include the Township of Hazlet, any department, officer, board or commission listed in §
5-9 and the Township of Hazlet Board of Education.
[Added 5-3-1983 by Ord. No. 578-83]
The Chief of Police shall have the right to
disconnect any malfunctioning equipment from the alarm console until
such time as the malfunction has been corrected.
All audible signaling devices shall be equipped
with a timing device to limit the sounding of the signaling device
to 15 minutes or less.
The Chief of Police may, from time to time,
promulgate written rules and regulations, subject to the approval
of the Township Committee, supplementing this chapter, in order to
provide for recordkeeping and efficient operation and management of
the system.
Any unauthorized equipment may be disconnected
by the Chief of Police or his or her designated representative for
noncompliance with this chapter.