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.
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.
The volunteer fire company or companies located within the
Township of Little Falls.
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.
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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were repealed 7-26-2021 by L.L. No. 1418.
The Bureau of Fire Prevention shall have the
power and the duty to enforce the provisions of this article.
It shall be unlawful for any person, persons,
corporation, owner or lessee of any building in which a fire alarm
has been installed to:
A.
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.
B.
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.
A.
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
| |
|
4th alarm
|
$100
| |
|
5th alarm
|
$250
| |
|
6th alarm
|
$500
| |
|
In excess of 7 alarms
|
$1,000 per alarm
|
B.
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
| |
|
4th alarm
|
$50
| |
|
5th alarm
|
$150
| |
|
6th alarm
|
$250
| |
|
In excess of 7 alarms
|
$500 per alarm
|
