[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
The Town Council of the Town of Westfield hereby finds and declares that:
(a) 
Alarm systems and devices to detect and report emergencies such as burglary and fire have been installed in numerous residential, commercial and industrial premises in the Town.
(b) 
Many alarm businesses have contracted with the owners and occupants of premises in the Town for the sale or leasing, installation, operation and maintenance of private alarm systems, which contracts provide for the connection of the private alarm systems to central alarm panels in the Town police headquarters serving both the fire and Police Departments and other alarm business and property owners and occupants have installed other types of alarm systems.
(c) 
The Police Department and Fire Department have experienced numerous false alarms which are a drain on manpower and a danger to those responding.
(d) 
Unless the various systems and devices of the many alarm businesses and individual property owners and occupants are uniformly regulated there will be an unnecessary drain on the manpower, time, space facilities and finances of the Town and its fire and Police Departments; deterioration of the quality of, and inefficiency in, the service to persons subscribing to the alarm services; and confusion or inequities among the alarm businesses and persons and businesses protected by these devices in the Town.
(e) 
The public interest, therefore, requires the enactment of standards, procedures and regulations to control the use of private emergency alarm systems and devices in the Town.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
The purpose of this chapter is to provide standards, procedures and regulations for various types of burglar, fire and other private alarm systems or warning devices which require a response by the Police Department, Fire Department or other Town agency.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
The provisions of this chapter shall apply to any person, other than municipal agencies, who operates, maintains or owns any private alarm system or warning device designed to summon the police, Fire Department or other Town agency to any location in response to the signal of any type of emergency alarm. This chapter shall not be construed to prohibit alarm companies from providing alarm services to other offices within or without the Town so long as such services are not connected to the central alarm panel at the police headquarters. No person shall have premises protected by a private alarm system or warning device unless the alarm system or warning device is registered in accordance with this chapter.
As used in this chapter the following terms shall include the meanings given herein:
ALARM BUSINESS
Any business operated by any person, partnership, corporation, or other entity which for profit engages in, manages, conducts or performs any of the following activities: installing, leasing, connecting, maintaining, adjusting, arranging, repairing, replacing, selling, moving, servicing, or programming a private alarm system, or responding to or monitoring such system, or which causes any of these activities to take place or solicits for same.
ALARM BUSINESS LICENSE
A license issued by the Chief of Police, permitting a person, partnership, corporation, or other entity to engage in, carry on, perform, manage, conduct or solicit for an alarm business within the boundaries of the Town of Westfield.
ALARM INSTALLER
Any natural person whether he is the owner or principal of an alarm business or employed thereby, who solicits, sells, installs, leases, connects, arranges, maintains, services, repairs, replaces, adjusts, inspects, moves, or programs any private alarm system within the borders of the Town of Westfield.
ALARM INSTALLER'S LICENSE
A license issued by the Chief of Police, permitting a natural person to solicit, install, connect, arrange, maintain, service, repair, replace, adjust, inspect, move, or program any private alarm system in any building, place on premises in the Town of Westfield or lease, or sell such equipment within the Town of Westfield.
ALARM PANEL
The component of the communications console in the Town police headquarters which indicates the existence of an emergency.
AUDIBLE ALARM
Any device installed to service an improved property and designed to sound an alarm by a bell, horn, siren or other noise making instrument located upon the property where the device is installed and audible beyond the limits of the property in the event of the presence of fire, smoke, or similar hazards, unauthorized entry, the commission of an unlawful act or a similar emergency.
COMMUNICATIONS CONSOLE
The console or control panel located in the Town police headquarters which gives either visible and/or audible indications of alarms.
FALSE ALARM
The actuation of an alarm system or warning device by causes other than those to which the alarm system or warning device was designed or intended to respond, or the testing of alarms required by law or practice without prior notice to the Police Department.
LICENSEE
The person obtaining the license to install, operate and maintain the alarm panel in the police headquarters.
PERMITTEE
Any person owning or leasing a private alarm system and holding a permit issued pursuant to this chapter to (a) connect said system to the alarm panel; or (b) to a special telephone; or (c) to a central answering office; or (d) having a local alarm system.
PERSON
Includes any partnership, corporation or association, or any other legal entity, as well as a natural person.
PRIVATE ALARM SYSTEM
Any system installed to serve an improved property and designed or used for detection of fire, smoke or similar hazards, the detection of unauthorized entry, the commission of an unlawful act, or the detection of any one or more of the foregoing, or for reporting any emergency, which system causes an audible alarm and/or communicates or causes the communication of information to the alarm panel in the Town police headquarters or to the police by telephone. A private alarm system includes, but is not limited to, any one of the following types:
(a) 
LOCAL ALARM SYSTEMWhich sounds an audible alarm but is not connected to the alarm panel at police headquarters and does not alert persons beyond the limits of the property by telephone or other means except by sound of the alarm.
(b) 
LEASE LINE SYSTEMWhich provides direct connection by a telephone lease line from a specific location to the alarm panel with a visible or audible signal.
(c) 
TAPE DIALER SYSTEMWhich automatically selects a telephone trunk line and then reproduces a prerecorded message to a special police telephone rather than to the alarm panel.
(d) 
TELEPHONE CALL SYSTEMWhich automatically alerts a person, beyond the limits of the property served, who is engaged in the business of relaying information by telephone to the Town Police Department or Fire Department or reacting independently of the police or Fire Department.