[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the
Town of Pound Ridge: Art. I, 11-14-1985 as L.L. No. 3-1985.[1] Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire prevention — See Ch. 55.
[1]
Editor's Note: This local law also repealed
former Article I, Automatic Telephone-Dialing Devices, adopted 6-12-1980
as L.L. No. 1-1980, as amended.
The purpose of this Article is to provide regulations
and standards applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses and alarm
users, as defined in this Article, to reduce the number of false alarms
and to encourage the installation and maintenance of reliable alarm
devices.
For the purpose of this Article, the following
definitions shall apply:
Any person who is employed by any business defined as an
alarm business by this section.
Any business, firm, corporation or other commercial entity
which is in the business of owning, monitoring, maintaining, installing,
leasing or selling an alarm device or system of alarm devices.
Any device which is designed to transmit an alarm signal
when activated by a criminal or unauthorized act, or by smoke, fire
or other emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response.
Any burglar or fire device, or aggregation of such devices
installed on or within the general location of a building or building
located on a common site.
Any person, corporation or partnership, etc., on whose premises
an alarm device is owned, operated, used or maintained.
A telephone device that automatically selects a telephone
line connected to a central alarm station.
Any facility operated by a private firm which is manned by
operators who receive, record or validate alarm signals and relay
information about such validated signals to Police or Fire Headquarters,
when appropriate.
Any alarm, audible or communicated to a central alarm station,
resulting from the activation of an alarm device to which the Police
or Fire Department responds or is expected to respond, which is not
the result of an unauthorized act, robbery, burglary or other crime,
fire or emergency.
Any device not connected to a central alarm station.
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal
is initiated by the direct action of the alarm user.
The Registration Authority shall be the Town Clerk or his/her
designee.
A.Â
Any property owner or lessees of property in the Town
of Pound Ridge intending to install any alarm device shall first register
with the Town Clerk the alarm features of such alarm device, and details
of the alarm businesses involved in the installation, repair and monitoring
of the alarm device must be included.
B.Â
All owners of existing alarm installations must comply
with the registration provisions of this Article within 45 days after
its adoption.
C.Â
Any change in the alarm installation which affects
data on the registration requires reregistration.
The failure of any person, natural or corporate, to register as required by § 36-3 or perform or obey any provisions of this Article constitutes a violation punishable by a fine of up to $100 for each such violation.
Any person who shall intentionally tamper with,
destroy or compromise any alarm or alarm device shall be guilty of
a Class A misdemeanor.
No person shall use or cause or permit the use
of any alarm device that automatically selects a direct telephone
line of the Police or Fire Department of the Town of Pound Ridge and
then reproduces any prerecorded voice messages to report any robbery,
burglary, fire or other emergency.
It shall be a violation of this Article to intentionally cause a false alarm, and any person who does intentionally cause a false alarm shall be subject to the penalty provisions in § 36-4.
Any owner or lessees of property having an alarm
device on their premises shall pay to the Town a fine for each and
every false alarm to which the Police or Fire Department responds
in each calendar year as follows:
[Amended 3-12-1987 by L.L. No. 1-1987]
The Town Board shall designate the Chief of
Police of the Town of Pound Ridge and the Fire Inspector of the Town
of Pound Ridge and their respective designees to administer and enforce
the provisions of this Article.
The repeal of the previous Town ordinance by
this Article shall not affect rights nor liabilities which have previously
arisen thereunder, nor shall the provisions of this Article apply
to or govern the construction or punishment of any offense committed
prior to its effective date.
