It is the intent and purpose of this chapter to provide minimum
uniform standards and regulations applicable to users and installers
of burglar, fire, hold-up and automatic telephone dialer alarms within
the Town of Wolcott, to reduce the number of false alarms, provide
penalties for noncompliance, and to encourage the installation and
responsible use of protective alarm systems in all dwellings and commercial
structures.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
ALARM SYSTEM
An assembly of equipment and devices (or a single device,
such as a solid-state unit, which may operate from a 110-volt AC line)
arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention
and to which Police or Fire Department personnel are expected to respond.
This includes all burglar alarms, fire alarms, hold-up alarms and
automatic telephone dialer alarms, except this does not include smoke
detectors or other alarm systems which do not signal outside an alarmed
premises or alarm systems in motor vehicles.
ALARM USER
Any person, firm or corporation on whose premises any alarm
is maintained within the Town.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE DIALING DEVICE
An alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone
lines, by direct communication or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message
indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm
system is designed to detect.
FALSE ALARM
The activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure,
malfunction, improper installation, or the negligence of the owner
or lessee of an alarm system or of his employees or agents which causes
or precipitates an emergency response. Such terminology does not include,
for example, alarms caused by power outages or hurricanes, tornadoes,
earthquakes or other normally violent conditions or acts of God. Excluded
from this chapter are false alarms that are transmitted with a criminal,
malicious or mischievous intent. Such violations will be prosecuted
under the applicable General Statutes of the State of Connecticut.
PERSON
An individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind, including governmental entities.
The Chief of Police of the Wolcott Police Department shall promulgate
such regulations as said Chief may deem necessary in order to implement
this chapter.