[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 1]
1. 
As used in this Part, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
ACCIDENTAL FALSE ALARM
Any false alarm which is not an intentional false alarm as defined herein, or an alarm which occurs when there has not been an intrusion, crime, fire or other emergency.
ALARM
A communication to a public safety agency indicating that a crime, fire or other emergency situation warranting immediate action by the public safety agency has occurred or is occurring.
ALARM DEVICE
A mechanical device designed to automatically transmit an alarm by wire, telephone, radio or other means (A) directly to a public safety agency; (B) to a person who is instructed to notify the public safety agency of the alarm; or, (C) to activate a bell or sounding device to be heard outside a building which is intended to alert the public safety agency or others to the existence of a crime, fire or other emergency situation warranting public safety action.
CENTRAL RECEIVING STATION
The alarm or control panel installed at a public safety agency for the purpose of giving visual or audio response to direct alarm devices.
DIRECT ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device, other than a telephone digital dialer alarm device, designed to transmit an alarm directly to the public safety agency.
FALSE ALARM
An alarm to which the public safety agency responds resulting from the activation of an alarm device when a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action by the public safety agency has not in fact occurred.
INDIRECT ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device designed to transmit an alarm to a person who is instructed to notify the police or fire department of the alarm.
INTENTIONAL FALSE ALARM
A false alarm resulting from the intentional activation of an alarm device by an individual under circumstances where that individual has no reasonable basis to believe that a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action by the public safety agency has occurred or is occurring.
PERSON
An individual, corporation, partnership, incorporated association or other similar entity.
PUBLIC SAFETY AGENCY
Any police or fire service serving the Township covered by this Part.
TELEPHONE DIGITAL DIAL ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device designed to automatically transmit a recorded message over regular telephone lines directly to the public safety agency or to a person who is instructed to notify the public safety agency of the alarm.
2. 
In this Part, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular; the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 2; as amended by Ord. 2003-03, 6/2/2003]
1. 
If an alarm device is designed to transmit a recorded message directly to the public safety agency, the duration of such recorded message shall not exceed 60 seconds. The contents of the recorded message shall be intelligible and in a format approved by the public safety agency.
2. 
An alarm device need not contain a delay service which causes a delay to occur between the time the alarm device receives a triggering stimulus and the time the alarm device transmits an alarm.
3. 
A direct alarm device shall be designed to dial only specific telephone numbers designated by the public safety agency; and to allow the person to abort the alarm signals.
4. 
A direct alarm device shall be designed so that it interfaces with the central receiving station maintained by the public safety agency.
5. 
If an alarm device is designed to cause a bell, siren or sound making device to be activated on or near the premises on which the alarm device is installed at the time it gives an alarm, said alarm device shall be designed to deactivate the bell, siren or other sound making device after 30 minutes of operation. Alarm devices in operation on the effective date of this Part must be modified for a 30 minute device unless said unit cannot be modified without replacement.
6. 
The sensory mechanism used in connection with an alarm device must be adjusted to suppress false indications of fire or intrusion so that the alarm device will not be activated by impulses due to transient pressure change in water pipes, short flashes of light, wind noises such as the rattling or vibrating of doors or windows, vehicular noise adjacent to the premises or other forces unrelated to genuine alarm situations.
7. 
The alarm device must be maintained by the person in good repair to assure reliability of operation.
8. 
Persons having their alarms terminate at the central receiving station shall insure that a person residing within 15 minutes of alarmed structure shall be available to respond when notified that alarm has been received and their presence is required. The names, addresses and phone numbers of at least two persons which can be contacted for responses as aforementioned must be kept on file at the central receiving station for public safety agency use.
9. 
Any person as hereinbefore defined having an automatic fire alarm system subject to the provisions of this Part who does not maintain on the premises twenty-four-hour maintenance staff shall be required to install a Knox box whereby keys for resetting alarm panels and pull stations for alarm could provide access to representatives of the fire company to reset the alarm to insure that the person and the alarm system does not encounter a problem. The person shall provide in the Knox box emergency telephone contact numbers to provide representatives of the fire company east access to the facility. Notice of this requirement shall be furnished to each commercial, industrial and apartment facility so that compliance can be accomplished within 30 days after notice of the provision of this Part.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 3; as amended by Ord. 09-00, 10/2/2000]
1. 
Intentional False Alarms. No person shall create an intentional false alarm. (18 Pa.C.S.A. § 4905)
2. 
Accidental False Alarms. Any person causing accidental false alarms for any reason shall pay to the Township a charge for each and every false alarm to which the public safety agency responds, in an amount as established by resolution of the Board of Supervisors, in each calendar year.
3. 
When a false alarm occurs, the public safety agency, within 10 days from the date of the false alarm, shall notify the person of the alarm device from which the false alarm emanated causing said false alarm that a false alarm charge is due and the amount thereof. Such notice shall be in writing and mailed to the person causing said false alarm at his last known address by regular mail, postage prepaid. Failure of the public safety agency to mail notice of assessment of a false alarm charge within 10 days from the occurrence of a false alarm shall preclude the Township from assessing a false alarm charge for said false alarm.
4. 
A false alarm charge shall be due and payable at the office of the Spring Township Supervisors, 15 days from the date of the mailing of the notice of assessment of the charge.
5. 
Failure of a person causing a false alarm to pay a false alarm charge on or before the date due shall constitute a violation of the Part and shall subject said person to the penalties set forth in § 13-108 hereof.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 4]
If the location of the central receiving station should change at any time, the public safety office shall not be responsible for any cost incurred by a person to relocate their alarm because of said change in location.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 5]
No person shall conduct or test any alarm device without first notifying the public safety agency. Where the equipment is keyed through an intermediary, notification is unnecessary unless the alarm or signal is to be relayed to the central receiving station.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 6]
The public safety agency of the Township will not accept any liability to maintain any equipment, to answer alarms nor otherwise render the public safety agency of the Township liable to any person for any loss or damage relating to the alarm system or procedure.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 7]
Administration and enforcement of this Part shall be functions of the public safety agency of the Township and shall include the following: authority to order the disconnection of an alarm device until such device is made to comply with operational standards set forth herein, but only when evidence of failure to comply with said standards imposes a burden upon the public safety agency of the Township as a result of false alarms.
[Ord. 52-1986, 11/3/1986, § 8; as amended by Ord. 58-1989, 3/6/1989, § 2(K); and by Ord. 09-00, 10/2/2000]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provisions of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a district justice in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.