Township of Little Falls, NJ: Definitions.

As used in this article, the following terms have the meanings indicated:

Any mechanical or electronic signal reporting by means of telephone cables or other means of transmission, which signals are monitored by the Little Falls Township Fire Department at its headquarters, or an audible alarm which is heard and/or called in by another and which signals, upon receipt or upon activation, indicate to the Fire Department that any emergency exists at the sending location. Said alarms shall include those types installed to indicate fires at the sending location.

FALSE NOTIFICATIONS

Any fire report or request for fire service directed to the Fire Department by any means of any communication wherein the situation, condition, incident or emergency as subject of the report or request did not and does not exist.

FIRE DEPARTMENT

The volunteer fire company or companies located within the Township of Little Falls.

PERSON

Any individual, partnership, association, syndicate, company, firm, trust, corporation, department, bureau, agency, or other entity recognized by law as the subject of rights and duties.

§ 82-12 through § 82-13. (Reserved) [1]

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Editor's Note: Former §§ 82-12, Registration of alarms required, and 82-13, Registration fee; operational fee, were repealed 7-26-2021 by L.L. No. 1418.

§ 82-14 Enforcement.

The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall have the power and the duty to enforce the provisions of this article.

§ 82-15 False alarms prohibited.

It shall be unlawful for any person, persons, corporation, owner or lessee of any building in which a fire alarm has been installed to:

Cause, suffer, allow or permit the accidental or purposeful transmission of a false alarm signal from any public or private place in the Township to the Fire Department of the Township.

Cause, suffer, allow or permit to be made any report or request for fire service or assistance by means of communication wherein the situation, condition, incident, or emergency as subject of the report or request for fire service or assistance do not and does not exist.

§ 82-16 Penalties for false alarm within a one-calendar-year period.

Penalties for false alarms transmitted from a multifamily (four units or more) residential complex, business, commercial, eleemosynary and/or industrial premises shall be as follows:

[Amended 7-26-2021 by Ord. No. 1418]

	Number of Alarms Within a Calendar Year	Penalty
	First 3 alarms	Warning only
	4^th alarm	$100
	5^th alarm	$250
	6^th alarm	$500
	In excess of 7 alarms	$1,000 per alarm

Penalties for false alarms transmitted from single-family detached dwellings, individual townhouses and condominium unit dwellings shall be as follows:

	Number of Alarms Within a Calendar Year	Penalty
	First 3 alarms	Warning only
	4^th alarm	$50
	5^th alarm	$150
	6^th alarm	$250
	In excess of 7 alarms	$500 per alarm