The purpose of this chapter is to provide uniform
minimum standards and regulations applicable to the users of burglar,
fire, holdup, and automatic telephone dialer alarms and any other
alarm or emergency signaling device within the City of Meriden which
results in the dispatch and/or response of municipal emergency vehicles
and/or personnel and to promote the responsible use of alarm systems
in the City of Meriden.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM DEVICE
Any component incorporated into an alarm system.
ALARM SYSTEM
An assembly of equipment and devices, or a single device,
arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention
and to which the Police Department and/or the Fire Department personnel
are expected to respond. Specifically excluded from this definition
are smoke or other battery-operated detectors which do not signal
outside the alarmed premises and alarm systems installed in motor
vehicles.
ALARM USER
Any person, firm or corporation on whose premises an alarm
system is maintained.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALING ALARM
An alarm system which automatically sends a prerecorded voice
message or coded signal over the telephone line which indicates the
existence of the emergency situation the alarm system is designed
to detect.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system to which the Police Department
and/or the Fire Department responds and which is not caused by a criminal
act, fire or other emergency, but does not mean the activation of
an alarm caused by circumstances which are attributed to acts of God.
This chapter shall not apply to alarm systems
owned or controlled by the City of Meriden, the Meriden Board of Education,
the State of Connecticut, or the United States of America.