[1]
Editor's Note: This title was changed from "Copies of Ordinance;
Costs; Penalties" to "" by Ord. No.
950-2022, 5/16/2022.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 13-321, Suppliers of Equipment
to Furnish Copies of Ordinance, was repealed by Ord. No. 950-2022, 5/16/2022.
[Ord. 518, 9/13/1976; amended by Ord. No. 950-2022, 5/16/2022]
1.
Consent
to pay costs; schedule of costs.
A.
For the
purpose of defraying the costs to the Borough of responding to a false
alarm, the owner or lessee of an automatic protection device, persons
using the services of intermediaries, users of audible alarms, and
users of any other kind of direct or indirect connection with the
police or fire communications centers, except persons using the two-way
live voice communication by telephone, shall, as a condition to installation
and continued operation of such equipment or service, execute a consent,
in such form as may be prescribed by the Borough, that such owner,
lessee, or user shall be assessed a warning or fine, based on the
following schedules, for each false alarm originating from the owner's
premises that has not been activated by some force of nature or means
beyond the owner's, lessee's, or user's control.
B.
Any person who fails to pay the costs imposed in Subsection 1A above shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary proceeding brought before a Magisterial District Judge, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be subject to the payment of a fine in the amount of the cost imposed above, plus the costs of prosecution. Upon default of payment thereof, the defendant may be sentenced to imprisonment for a period of not more than 30 days.
2.
Failure to comply. Any such owner, lessee, or user who fails to execute the consent as required in Subsection 1A above shall disconnect the alarm, automatic protection device, or any other kind of direct or indirect connection with the police or fire communications centers and shall discontinue using the services of any intermediaries.
3.
Any owner, lessee, or user of an automatic protection device may revoke or refuse to consent as set forth in Subsection 1A above only if s/he also disconnects the automatic protection device.
4.
The Building
Inspector, Codes Official, Borough Police Department and/or Borough
Fire Department responding to an alarm which is determined to be false
shall notify the person in whose name the alarm is registered of the
false alarm. If the responding official is not able to notify the
registered owner, said official shall notify the Borough Codes Official
and the Borough shall notify the person in whose name the alarm is
registered of the false alarm.
[Ord. 518, 9/13/1976; as amended by Ord. 636, 5/23/1989,
§ 1-6; and by Ord. 810, 12/17/2007]
1.
Failure of any person to comply with the requirements of written
notice of a violation of any provision hereof within three days of
receipt of such notice, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and holidays,
shall constitute an offense and such person, upon conviction thereof,
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 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
2.
False Alarm Violation. Any person found guilty of misuse, false activation
or continual accidental activation, upon conviction thereof, 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 30 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues
shall constitute a separate offense.
