The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations and standards applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses, alarm agents and alarm users as defined in this chapter.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
ALARM
A signal transmitted to police or fire headquarters which is intended to notify the Police or Fire Departments of a burglary, robbery or fire at a premises within the Village of Scarsdale to which the Police or Fire Departments are expected to respond.
ALARM AGENT
Any individual who is employed by any person licensed hereunder to conduct the business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or selling alarm devices, whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing in or on any building, place or premises any alarm device as defined in this chapter, within the Village of Scarsdale.
ALARM BUSINESS
Any person engaged in the business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or selling an alarm device or devices or system of alarm devices, which business is, as owner, operator, provider of maintenance service, installer, lessor or seller of said device, devices or system of devices, subject to the license requirements of this chapter.
ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated, transmits a signal to police or fire headquarters or to a central alarm station and/or produces an audible or visible signal to which the Police or Fire Departments are expected to respond.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any alarm device or aggregation of 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.
ALARM REVIEW BOARD
A committee consisting of one or more of the following: the Assistant Village Manager or such other individual as designated by the Village Manager and the Police Chief or his designee; alarm industry and central alarm station representatives appointed by the Village Manager; and, in the case of an appeal concerning a fire alarm, the Fire Chief or his designee shall be an additional member. The function of the "Alarm Review Board" shall be to review all disputes arising out of violations of this chapter.
ALARM USER
Any person or whose premises an alarm device is owned, operated, used or maintained.
CENTRAL ALARM MONITORING FACILITY
A facility owned by the Village of Scarsdale and located at police headquarters, which is monitored by village employees who receive, record and verify alarm signals transmitted from alarm devices or from central alarm stations.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any facility operated by a private firm that receives and verifies alarm signals and relays information about such verified signals to the central alarm monitoring facility.
DIGITAL DIAL ALARM
A telephone device or telephone attachment that automatically or electronically selects a telephone line connected to the central alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm station to report a burglary, robbery or fire requiring Police or Fire Department response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any alarm device which transmits a signal over a leased telephone line to the central alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm station.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm resulting from the activation of an alarm device to which the Police or Fire Department responds and which is not the result of a robbery, burglary or fire.
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The Westchester County Department of Consumer Affairs.
LOCAL ALARM DEVICE
Any alarm device not connected to the central alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm station which, when activated, causes an audible and/or visual signaling device to be activated at the premises on or within which the device is installed.
MALFUNCTION
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in an alarm device which results in a false alarm.
MANUAL ALARM DEVICE
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal is initiated by the direct action of the alarm user.
PERSON
Any natural person or any other entity.
RESPONDS (i.e., to which the Police or Fire Department responds)
Acknowledgment that an alarm has been received at police and/or fire headquarters by an act of answering a telephone call, noting information received and starting any process of verification, such as notifying vehicles of receipt of an alarm or any other act commencing the process of acting as a Police or Fire Department on account of such notification.
VERIFICATION
Qualification of the legitimacy of an alarm signal by various means which may, under normal conditions, include, but shall not be limited to, customer call-in, central station call-out, automatic abort, built-in delay.