The purpose of this chapter is to alleviate
conditions which lead to an unnecessary drain and use on the manpower,
time, space, facilities and finances of the Township of Mansfield
and of the police and fire departments.
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to
any person other than the Township who operates, maintains or owns
any alarm device designed to summon the Police, Fire Department or
other municipal agency to any location in response to any type of
alarm signal.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM DEVICE
Any type of alarm, actuating equipment which provides warning
of intrusion, fire, smoke, burglary, flood or like peril.
ALARM SYSTEM
The installment in one or more buildings of one or more alarm
devices for the express purpose of giving visual or audible warning,
or both, of an emergency such as burglary, intrusion, fire, smoke,
flood or like perils.
DIAL ALARM
An alarm device that employs an automatic dialing system
with an automatic cutoff, precoded to connect with a telephone system
used by the Police and Fire Departments operating in the Township.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system by causes other than those
to which the alarm system was designed or intended to respond.