[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Spring City 6-6-1994 by Ord. No. 400. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A. 
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context:
ACCIDENTAL FALSE ALARM
Any false alarm which is not an intentional false alarm as defined herein, or, not when an intrusion, crime, fire or other emergency has actually occurred.
ALARM
A communication to the police department indicating that a crime, fire or other emergency situation warranting immediate action by the police department has occurred or is occurring.
ALARM DEVICE
A device designed to automatically transmit an alarm by wire, telephone, radio or other means:
(1) 
Directly to the police department;
(2) 
To a person who is instructed to notify the police department of the alarm; or
(3) 
To activate a bell or sounding device to be heard outside a building which is intended to alert the police or others to the existence of a crime, fire or other emergency situation warranting police action.
DIRECT ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device, other than a telephone dialer alarm device, designed to transmit an alarm directly to the police department.
FALSE ALARM
An alarm to which the police department responds resulting from the activation of an alarm device when a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action by the police department has not in fact occurred.
INDIRECT ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device designed to transmit an alarm to a person who is instructed to notify the police department of the alarm.
INTENTIONAL FALSE ALARM
A false alarm resulting from the intentional activation of an alarm device by an individual under circumstances where that individual has no reasonable basis to believe that a crime, fire or other emergency warranting immediate action by the police department has occurred or is occurring.
PERMIT HOLDER
A person to whom the police department has issued an alarm device permit.
PERSON
An individual, corporation, partnership, incorporated association or other similar entity.
TELEPHONE DIALER ALARM DEVICE
An alarm device designed to automatically transmit a recorded message over regular telephone lines directly to the police department or to a person who is instructed to notify the police department of the alarm.
B. 
In this chapter, the singular shall include the plural; the plural shall include the singular; the masculine shall include the feminine and the neuter.
A. 
All alarm systems must be registered at the Police Department of the Borough of Spring city prior to activation of the system.
B. 
Permit holders will be issued a security system registration card to be kept on file at the Police Department. The name and emergency contact number of the alarm company or of a responsible person shall be posted prominently on the main entrance of the premises.
C. 
Permit fees shall be established by Resolution of Borough Council.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
No permit holder or person shall create an intentional or accidental false alarm. When a false alarm occurs, the permittee shall be notified, in writing, by the Police Department for each and every false alarm activated in the absence of an emergency, whether willfully or by inadvertence, negligence or unintentional act, including the malfunction of the alarm system to which the police or fire agency responds. A person that owns, uses or possesses an alarm device or automatic dialing device may not, after causing or permitting three false alarms to occur in a consecutive twelve-month period, cause or permit a subsequent false alarm to occur in the same consecutive twelve-month period. A person that violates this section commits a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $300 pursuant to 18 Pa.C.S.A. § 7511 or such other amount as established by state law.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I)]
Any person who violates or permits a violation of this chapter shall, upon being found liable therefor, pay a fine of not more than $600, plus court costs and reasonable attorneys' fees incurred by the Borough in the enforcement proceedings. If the penalty is not paid, the Borough shall initiate a civil action for collection in accordance with the Pennsylvania Rules of Civil Procedure. Each day a violation exists shall constitute a separate offense, and each section of this chapter that is violated shall also constitute a separate offense. In addition to or in lieu of enforcement under this section, the Borough may enforce this chapter in equity in the Court of Common Pleas of York County.
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.
If any sentence, clause, section, or part of this chapter is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections or parts of this chapter. It is hereby declared as the intent of the Borough of Spring City that this chapter would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been included herein.