The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations and standards
applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses, alarm agents and alarm
users as defined in this chapter.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall
apply:
A signal transmitted to police or fire headquarters by a
central alarm station which is intended to notify the Police or Fire
Department of a burglary, robbery or fire at a premises within the
Village of Croton-on-Hudson to which the Police or Fire Department
is expected to respond.
Any individual who is employed by any person conducting the
business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or
selling alarm devices whose duties include any of the following: selling,
maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving
or installing in or on any building, place or premises any alarm device,
as defined in this chapter, within the Village of Croton-on-Hudson.
Any person engaged in the business of owning, operating,
maintaining, installing, leasing or selling an alarm device or devices
or system of alarm devices, which business is, as owner, operator,
provider of maintenance service, installer, lessor or seller of said
device, devices or system of devices.
Any device which, when activated, transmits a signal to a
central alarm station and/or produces an audible or visible signal
to which the Police or Fire Department is expected to respond.
Any alarm device or aggregation of alarm devices installed
on or within a single building or on or within more than one building
or area adjacently located on a common site, at a specific location.
Any person on whose premises an alarm device is owned, operated,
used or maintained.
Any facility operated by a private firm that receives and verifies
alarm signals and relays information about such verified signals to
the Police or Fire Department.
A "central alarm station" shall include all alarm users whose
alarm device or devices or system of alarm devices is capable of transmitting
an alarm directly to his/her computer, smartphone, or other mobile
device via a wireless signal.
Any alarm resulting from the activation of an alarm device
to which the Police or Fire Department responds and which is not the
result of a robbery, burglary or fire.
Any person applying for an alarm permit renting or using
the premises who is not the property owner.
Any alarm device not connected to a central alarm station
which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visual signaling device
to be activated at the premises on or within which the device is installed.
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in an alarm
device which results in a false alarm.
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal
is initiated by the direct action of the alarm user.
The Village of Croton-on-Hudson.
Any natural person or any other entity.
Acknowledgment that police and/or fire headquarters have
received an alarm by an act of answering a telephone call, noting
information received and starting any process of response, such as
notifying vehicles of receipt of an alarm or any other act commencing
the process of acting as a Police or Fire Department on account of
such notification.
Qualification of the legitimacy of an alarm signal by various
means which may under normal conditions include but shall not be limited
to customer call-in, central station call-out, automatic abort or
built-in delay.
