[HISTORY: Adopted by the Council of the Borough of Sharon
Hill as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 3-23-2006 by Ord. No. 1309 (Ch. 100A of the 1972
Code)]
Within six months from the date this article is enacted, all
banks and other establishments in the Borough of Sharon Hill providing
access to an automated teller machine which is located outside of
a building or other structure shall have installed and have functioning
for the safety of all users of automated teller machines cameras capable
of photographing the general area around the ATM as well as the areas
of ingress and egress to the ATM.
A.
Within nine months from the date this article is enacted, all ATMs
located outside of a building or other structure shall be equipped
with card-activated 911 access.
B.
Where 911 service is available, an automated teller machine shall
contain a dedicated voice telephone line operable by a single switch
that establishes an immediate connection to the available 911 emergency
service. The switch shall be activated through the use of an automated
teller machine access device.
All other retail businesses established after the date of this
article shall install a camera surveillance system that shall view
and record all persons entering and exiting the facility and all persons
who effect any and all transactions.
The location of the cameras required by this article must be
inspected and approved by the Chief of Police or his representative
and the Borough Manager, with periodic inspections to be conducted
by the Chief of Police or his representative and the Borough Manager,
which cameras must be in proper working order. If not in proper working
order, the said establishment shall be subject to fines hereinafter
mentioned.
Any person who shall be convicted of a violation of any of the
provisions of this article before any Magisterial District Judge shall
be sentenced to pay a maximum fine as provided from time to time by
state statute, together with costs of prosecution, or to imprisonment
in the county jail for a term not to exceed 30 days, or both. A separate
offense shall be deemed committed on each day during or on which a
violation occurs or continues.
