As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ALARM CONSOLE
The approved console or annunciator control panel installed
in the Hoboken police headquarters, pursuant to the provisions of
this article, for the purpose of giving a visual, audio and printed
response to alarm systems installed in the City of Hoboken.
ALARM DEVICE
Any mechanism designed to actuate the alarm console.
ALARM SYSTEM
The installation in one or more buildings of one or more
alarm devices or local alarms, for the express purpose of giving visual
or audible warning, or both of an emergency, such as a holdup, burglary,
intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or like perils.
DIAL ALARM
An alarm device that employs an automatic dialing system
precoded to connect with a telephone in police headquarters, rather
than to the alarm console with an automatic cutoff.
FALSE ALARM
The actuation of an alarm system by causes other than those
to which the alarm system was designed or intended to respond or activate.
LICENSEE
The person or company who holds the license to install, operate
and maintain the alarm console, pursuant to the provisions of this
article.
LOCAL OR PRIVATE ALARM
Any mechanism that constitutes, in whole or in part, an alarm
system that is not designed to actuate the alarm console in police
headquarters, or is operated by a private company at a location other
than the property of the City of Hoboken.
OCCUPANT
A person in possession of premises in or upon which an alarm
system exists.
PERMITTEE
A person holding a permit to install, operate or maintain
an alarm system that employs an alarm device.
PERSON
Any natural person, corporation, partnership, association
or any other organization.
Whenever, under the provisions of this article, the Chief of
Police or any authorized representative he may have designated is
empowered to make a decision with respect to the installation, operation
and maintenance of any alarm equipment, or with respect to the issuance
or denial of any application relating thereto, any person aggrieved
by such decision may, within 10 days following such decision, file
a written appeal therefrom with the City Clerk and with the Chief
of Police whereupon the City Council shall promptly conduct a hearing
and affirm, modify or reverse the decision appealed from.
The Department of Public Safety may from time to time promulgate
rules and regulations supplementing this article in order to provide
for recordkeeping and efficient management of said system; provided,
however, that said rules and regulations, or any revisions thereof,
shall not take effect until first approved by resolution of the City
Council.
[Amended 11-4-1987 by Ord. No. V-140]
A. Any person convicted of a violation of this article shall, in addition
to the revocation of the license or permit of any such person, or
any person found guilty of failure to comply with any rules or regulations
duly promulgated pursuant thereto, may, after being found guilty of
such violation, be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000 or imprisonment
for a term not exceeding 90 days or both.
B. Said maximum fine of $1,000 shall not apply in those instances in
which the amount of the maximum penalty has hereinbefore been limited
to a lesser amount by this article. In the case of a continuing violation,
the violator may be found guilty of as many separate offenses or counts
as the number of days he is proved to have continued in violation
of this article.
All alarms within the City of Hoboken shall be brought into
compliance with the requirements of this article within 90 days of
the effective date of this article.