This chapter is intended to provide the Town of Camden with
rules and regulations to enhance public safety by promoting the control
of fire hazards; regulating the use of structures, premises, and open
areas; providing for the abatement of fire hazards; and setting forth
the standards for compliance and achievement of these objectives.
Any alarm system that causes the transmittal of a nonemergency
alarm more than three times in any calendar year, after a thirty-day
start-up period for new installations, shall pay a penalty of $100
for each subsequent instance of a nonemergency alarm in excess of
that number, upon demand by the Fire Chief or his agent. The Fire
Chief or his agent shall give suitable written warning to any permit
holder, or to his designated agent, whose alarm system sends a third
nonemergency alarm in any calendar year. In the event an alarm is
activated as a result of a natural or unnatural event beyond the property
owner's control (for example, disruption of the electrical service
due to storm, motor vehicle accident), no fee shall be imposed.
If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this chapter
shall be held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity shall
not affect the remaining provisions of this chapter, and to that end,
the provisions of this chapter are hereby declared to be severable.