The purpose of this chapter is to establish
standards and controls for the various types of fire, intrusion, holdup
and other emergency signals from fire and police alarm devices that
require Fire Department or police response, investigation or safeguarding
of property at the location of an event reported by a signal which
is transmitted by telephone or radio or which is otherwise relayed
to the Police or Fire Department by an alarm device requiring investigation
or other action by any person acting in response to a signal actuated
by an alarm device, including such devices already in use within the
village.
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any fire or police alarm device or aggregation of fire or
police 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.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any facility operated by a private firm that owns or leases
a system of fire or police alarm devices, which facility is manned
by operators who receive, record or validate alarm signals and relay
information about such validated signals to the Police or Fire Department
when appropriate.
DIAL ALARM
Any fire or police alarm device which is a telephone device
or telephone attachment that automatically or electronically selects
a telephone line connected to a central alarm station or police headquarters
and reproduces a prerecorded message to report a criminal act or other
emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any fire or police alarm device connected directly, by leased
telephone wires, from a specific location to police headquarters.
EMERGENCY ALARM
Any fire or police alarm device designed to be actuated by
a fire, criminal act or other emergency at a specific location or
by a victim of a holdup, robbery or other emergency or criminal act
at a specific location.
FALSE EMERGENCY ALARM
Any signal actuated by an emergency alarm to which the Police
or Fire Department responds, which is not the result of a fire, holdup,
robbery or other crime or emergency.
FIRE OR POLICE ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when actuated by a fire, criminal act or
other emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response, transmits
a prerecorded message or other signal by telephone, radio or other
means to a central alarm station or directly to the Police or Fire
Department or produces an audible or visible signal designed to notify
persons within audible or visible alarm range of the signal.
INTRUSION
Any entry into an area or building equipped with one or more
police alarm devices by any person or object whose entry actuates
a police alarm device.
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The Village Police Department with respect to police alarm
devices and the Village Fire Marshal with respect to fire alarm devices.
[Amended 5-10-2007 by L.L. No. 4-2007]
POLICE HEADQUARTERS
Police headquarters and other enclosures housing privately
or publicly owned equipment serving the Police or Fire Department.
[Amended 8-12-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994]
A. The licensing authority is hereby authorized to grant
a revocable permit to any owner of property located within the Village
of Southampton, or the lessee thereof, to operate, maintain, install
and modify a fire or police alarm device.
B. All presently existing fire or police alarm devices
and systems of fire or police alarm devices and present owners and
lessees of premises having such devices or systems must comply with
all provisions of this chapter by May 1, 1972.
[Amended 8-12-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994]
Applications for permits shall be made as follows:
A. Owner or lessee permits. Any property owner or lessee
of property in the Village of Southampton having on his or its premises
a fire or police alarm device or system of fire or police alarm devices
shall apply to the licensing authority, on a form to be supplied by
the licensing authority, for a permit to own or otherwise have such
a device on his or its premises. The application shall contain provisions
relating to the device or system of devices installed or to be installed
on the premises. Application for permits for fire or police alarm
devices existing in premises on the effective date of this chapter
must be made to the licensing authority by May 1, 1972. No such device
may be installed on the premises of the owner or lessee after the
effective date of this chapter prior to the licensing authority's
having issued a permit to such owner or lessee, and no presently existing
fire or police alarm device shall be modified after the effective
date of this chapter prior to the licensing authority's having issued
a permit to such owner or lessee. Such permit need not be obtained
on an annual basis but shall be obtained each time a device or system
is to be installed or modified.
[Amended 4-10-1992 by L.L. No. 4-1992; 8-12-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994]
The Board of Trustees may establish a permit
fee for owner or lessee permits by resolution. If a permit fee is
established, such fee may be amended from time to time by resolution
of such Board.
[Amended 8-12-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994]
A. Any applicant whose application for a permit has been
denied by the licensing authority may appeal such denial, in writing,
to the Board of Trustees within 30 days after the date of denial and
may appear before such Board at a time and place to be determined
by such Board in support of such appeal. The decision of such Board
shall be final.
B. The Board of Trustees, after a hearing at which the
holder of a permit shall be given an opportunity to be heard, may
revoke a permit for violation of any of the provisions of this chapter.
Written notice of the time and place of any such hearing shall be
given to such holder, which notice shall include or be accompanied
by a statement reciting the ground or grounds for revocation to be
considered at such hearing.
C. If a permit is revoked by the Board of Trustees, operation
and maintenance of the alarm installation at such premises shall thereafter
constitute a violation of this chapter.
[Amended 8-12-1994 by L.L. No. 5-1994]
A. It shall be the duty of every owner of property having
an alarm installation on such premises to maintain such alarm installation
in good working order and condition. Such owner shall be responsible
for all malfunctions of such alarm installation.
B. It shall be the duty of every business or commercial
entity installing and/or maintaining an alarm installation in the
Village of Southampton to keep complete and accurate records with
respect to installation and/or maintenance of such alarm installations.
C. It shall be the duty of every business or commercial
entity installing security or fire alarm systems to obtain and maintain
in effect a license therefor from the Secretary of State of the State
of New York.
D. It shall be the duty of every business or commercial
entity installing and/or maintaining an alarm installation in the
Village of Southampton to comply with rules, regulations and standards
promulgated pursuant to this chapter regarding the quality, efficiency
and effectiveness of alarm installations.
[Amended 1-29-1982 by L.L. No. 1-1982; 7-11-2002 by L.L. No. 1-2002; 8-13-2020 by L.L. No. 7-2020]
Any person who violates this chapter or fails to comply with any of its requirements shall, upon conviction thereof, be subject to the penalties provided in Article
II of Chapter
1 of the Code of the Village of Southampton.