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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Any person or whose premises an alarm device is owned, operated,
used or maintained.
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.
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.
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.
Any alarm device which transmits a signal over a leased telephone
line to the central alarm monitoring facility or to a central alarm station.
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.
The Westchester County Department of Consumer Affairs.
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.
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in an alarm device
which results in a false alarm.
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal is initiated
by the direct action of the alarm user.
Any natural person or any other entity.
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.
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.
