The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations
and standards applicable to alarm devices and alarm users and to provide
a schedule of charges applicable for false alarms transmitted through
such devices. All emergency medical monitoring and medical alarm systems
shall be exempt from this chapter. Also excluded from the provisions
of this chapter are alarm devices installed in or on any motor vehicle.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM AGENT
Any individual who is employed by any person licensed by
New York State to conduct the business of owning, operating, maintaining,
installing, leasing or selling alarm devices, whose duties include
any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing,
altering, replacing, moving or installing in or on any building, place
or premises any alarm device or system, as defined in this chapter,
within the Village of Ossining.
ALARM BUSINESS
Any person engaged in the business of owning, operating,
maintaining, installing, leasing or selling an alarm device or devices
or system of alarm devices, which business is, as owner, operator,
provider of maintenance service, installer, lessor or seller of said
device, devices or system of devices, subject to the license requirements
of New York State.
ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated by an unauthorized entry,
fire, smoke or other emergency requiring Police Department or Fire
Department response, transmits a recorded message or signal to police
headquarters or to a private control alarm station and/or produces
any audible or visual signal to which the Police Department or Fire
Department is expected to respond. Excluded from this definition and
from the provisions of this chapter are devices designed to alert
the occupants of a building of an emergency condition therein and
which do not produce any audible or visual signal which is perceptible
outside of such building.
ALARM REVIEW BOARD
The Village Manager, Village Clerk and Police Chief, or their
designee, shall comprise the Alarm Review Board, which will review
any complaints or problems arising out of the enforcement of any provision
of this chapter.
ALARM USER
Any person or entity on whose premises an alarm device is
installed in the Village of Ossining.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm activation to which Police or Fire Department personnel
respond which is not the result of natural disaster, act of God, fire,
smoke, unauthorized entry or other emergency.
Alarm devices shall be equipped with an automatic
cutoff device which limits the audible time of the exterior alarm
to 15 minutes.
The Village assumes no responsibility for alarm
devices. Notwithstanding the payment of any fee and/or the issuance
of any permit as herein required, the Police Department, Fire Department
and the Village of Ossining shall be under no obligation whatsoever
concerning the adequacy, operation or maintenance of the alarm device
so installed. The Village of Ossining and its authorized agents hereby
assume no liability whatsoever for any failure of any such alarm device
or for failure to respond to any such alarms or for any act of omission
or commission as a result of any such alarm device.
Unpaid false alarm fees, permit fees or other charges shall become a lien upon the property from which the alarm originated in a call to police headquarters, resulting in such fee or charge, and will be collected in the same manner as real estate taxes after the provisions of §
66-8 are exhausted if initiated by the owner or lessee.
Any entity which violates any provisions of
this chapter not otherwise provided for shall be subject to a fine
not in excess of $250 or imprisonment for 15 days, or both, for each
offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed for each occurrence
during which a violation occurs or is committed.