[Amended 3-7-2000 by Ord. No. 2613]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide standards
and regulations for various types of intrusions, burglar, fire and
other emergency alarm devices, whether direct line, radio, telephone
or other means, actuating a device at the Police Department or any
local alarm which when actuated produces an alarm not connected to
the Police Department and requiring a response thereto by the Police
Department, Fire Department or other municipal agencies.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to
any person, firm or corporation who operates, maintains or owns any
alarm device or local alarm designed to summon the Police Department,
Fire Department or other municipal agencies to any location in response
to any type of alarm signal. The terms of this chapter shall in no
way prohibit alarm companies from providing service by private sources
to other offices within the Township of Nutley, as long as such activity
is not connected to the alarm console at Nutley police headquarters;
except however, that any person, firm or corporation having a premises
protected by an alarm device shall still be responsible for the registration
thereof in accordance with § 206-9A without fee.
[Amended 3-7-2000 by Ord. No. 2613]
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 Police
Department of the Township of Nutley.
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm system actuating equipment in the alarm
console providing warning of intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or other
peril.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any alarm device or combination of devices installed for
one or more buildings at a location other than the alarm console.
DIAL ALARM
That type of equipment arranged to automatically transmit
a voice or coded signal to the Public Safety Communications Center
through commercial facilities and shall have available a separate
unlisted telephone or mechanical device to receive such signals.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm actuated by inadvertence, negligence or unintentional
act of someone other than an intruder and shall include as well as
alarms caused by malfunctioning of the alarm device or other relevant
equipment, but shall not include alarms created by malfunction of
the alarm console.
LICENSEE
The person obtaining the license to maintain the alarm console
as hereinafter set forth.
LOCAL ALARM
Any alarm or device which, when actuated, produces a signal
not connected to the alarm console, such as a store burglar alarm,
car alarm or any alarm actuating a bell device or any type of audible
noise.
PERMITTEE
Any person owning an alarm device or a local alarm within
the scope of this chapter.
PERSON
Deemed to include any natural person, partnership, corporation
or association.
[Amended 8-5-2003 by Ord. No. 2792]
A. There is hereby established a police/fire alarm console license, which shall be granted upon recommendation of the Deputy Fire Chief of the Nutley Fire Department as set forth in §
206-5 of this chapter. Any such licenses shall have exclusive use and control of the alarm console except for use by the Police/Fire Department of the Township of Nutley, and such licensee will be responsible, at no cost to said Township, for the establishment, construction and installation of said console containing equipment and being of a design approved by the Director of Public Safety and the Deputy Fire Chief of the Nutley Fire Department and for the care and maintenance and management thereafter of said console; said licensee shall locate said console and relocate said console, if necessary, under the supervision of the Deputy Fire Chief of the Nutley Fire Department, at no cost to the Township of Nutley. For any such license granted hereunder, the licensee will assume all liability and agree to indemnify and save harmless the Township of Nutley, its agents and the Nutley Police/Fire Department for any acts in conjunction with or by the operation of said police/fire alarm console, and, in conjunction herewith, he shall furnish annually to the Township Clerk an insurance certificate indicating coverages as follows: liability, not less than $100,000; property damages, $25,000; and product liability, $25,000. This insurance certificate shall also show the Township as an additionally insured principle.
B. Any connection to the police/fire alarm console shall
be a type inspected and approved by the Deputy Fire Chief of the Township
of Nutley or his designated representative, and any person aggrieved
by said decision may appeal said decision, in writing, within 10 days
to the Director of Public Safety.
C. The licensee for the police/fire alarm console shall
be permitted to charge subscribers a maximum installation fee of $100
and a maximum monthly retainer or maintenance fee of $20. Any increase
in the fee must be approved by the Township of Nutley Board of Commissioners
by resolution after requested by the Deputy Fire Chief. No fee shall
be charged to the Township of Nutley or the Board of Education of
said Township for monthly charges or console connection
charges for any existing or future systems in public buildings and
any equipment or alarm devices installed by the alarm console licensee
in such public buildings shall be at wholesale cost with no maintenance
charge for alarms connected from the municipal offices.
D. Any building required to be connected to an alarm
console pursuant to any federal, state or local regulations must arrange
to automatically and directly transmit a signal to the Public Safety
Communications Center. The Deputy Fire Chief in order to protect the
safety of the public and fire fighters shall require any person pursuant
to federal, state or local regulations owning or operating any building
except one- and two-family residences to arrange to automatically
and directly transmit a signal to the Public Safety Communications
Center.
[Amended 8-5-2003 by Ord. No. 2792]
The Township of Nutley shall be under no duty
or obligation to any permittee hereunder or to any alarm console licensee
hereunder, the alarm console and allied equipment being maintained
at will and subject to termination at any time by cancellation of
the system by resolution duly adopted by the Board of Commissioners
upon recommendation of the Deputy Fire Chief, provided that 30 days'
notice is given, in writing, to said permittee by certified mail.
[Amended 8-5-2003 by Ord. No. 2792]
The Deputy Fire Chief may from time to time
promulgate rules and regulations supplementing this chapter in order
to provide for recordkeeping and efficient management of said system;
provided, however, that the Director of Public Safety must first approve
said rules or any charges thereto.
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty
in the Municipal Court of the Township of Nutley for violation of
the terms of this chapter shall be subject to a fine of not more than
$500 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 90 days, or both.
Any moneys remitted to the Township of Nutley
pertaining to the operation, installation, licensing and associated
maintenance of the alarm console shall be placed in the Nutley Fire
Department Operating and Equipment Budget.