[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
Every person who installs, maintains or uses a private alarm
system or warning device to serve an improved property within the
Town shall maintain it in good repair and proper working condition,
shall meet the standards which may from time to time be promulgated
in writing by the police chief or Fire Chief to prevent faulty systems
or devices, and shall promptly correct or disconnect any faulty system
or device upon notice from the Chief of Police or Fire Chief that
the system or device is sounding an inordinate number of false alarms.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
Every private alarm system which has an audible signal shall
be equipped with cut off mechanism which will terminate the sound
after 15 minutes.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
Any person aggrieved by the action of the Chief of Police or
Fire Chief in the issuance, denial or suspension of a permit for a
private alarm system or with respect to the installation, operation
or maintenance of any alarm equipment shall have the right of appeal
to the Town business administrator. The appeal shall be taken by filing
with the administrator, within 14 days after the notice of the action
complained of has been mailed to the person's last known address,
a written statement setting forth fully the grounds for appeal. The
administrator shall set a time and place for hearing of the appeal,
and notice of the hearing shall be given to the appellant by certified
mail to his last known address at least five days prior to the date
set for hearing. The decision of the police chief or Fire Chief shall
be affirmed, modified or reversed, and the reasons therefor shall
be set forth in a letter to the applicant. A party aggrieved by the
action of the administrator may appeal to the license committee of
the Town Council.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
The Town of Westfield and the Westfield Police and Fire Departments
shall not assume any responsibility whatsoever to any licensee, permittee
or other person with respect to the adequacy, operation or maintenance
of the alarm panel, alarm register or any private alarm system or
warning device. No action taken by either the Town or the Town's
police or Fire Departments pursuant to the provisions of this chapter
shall create any liability upon either the Town or the Town's
police or Fire Departments by reason of any failure of any private
alarm system or warning device, any failure to respond to any private
alarm system or warning device. Every permittee who accepts a permit
for a private alarm system or registers a warning device agrees to
hold and save harmless the Town and its police and Fire Departments,
their agents and employees from any liability whatsoever in connection
with the alarm system or warning device or its deactivation or disconnection
by the Town of Westfield. It shall be the responsibility of the permittee
to provide for the reactivation or reconnection of a system deactivated
or disconnected by the Town. The alarm panel and register and allied
equipment shall be maintained at the will of the Town Council and
are subject to termination at any time by cancellation of the system
by resolution duly adopted by the Town Council. Any individual permit
issued hereunder may be revoked at will by the Town Council upon recommendation
of the business administrator provided that 30 days' notice is
given in writing to said permittee.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
Any person who violates any provision of this chapter shall
upon conviction be subject to a penalty not exceeding $200 or by imprisonment
for not more than 30 days, or both, in the discretion of the Municipal
Court judge. The alarm panel and register and allied equipment shall
be maintained at the will of the Town Council and are subject to termination
at any time by cancellation of the system by resolution duly adopted
by the Town Council. Any individual permit issued hereunder may be
revoked at will by the Town Council upon recommendation of the business
administrator provided that 30 days' notice is given in writing
to said permittee.
[G.O. No. 1315, § 1]
It is the intention of the Town Council that the Fire Chief
have control of private alarm systems that are designed primarily
to detect the presence of smoke or fire and that the police chief
have control with respect to all other private alarm systems as well
as the operation of the alarm panel. The police chief and Fire Chief
may jointly, from time to time promulgate rules and regulations as
are in their judgment necessary to the implementation of this chapter,
provided however, no such rule or regulation shall be inconsistent
with any provision of this chapter.
Said rules and regulations shall be in writing and shall be
given to each permittee or licensee at the time of the application
for or issuance of the permit or license or renewal thereof.
