[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Glenville 3-19-1997 by L.L. No. 1-1997 (Ch. 2A, Art. I, of the 1966 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Building construction and fire prevention — See Ch. 101.
For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
ALARM SYSTEM
The installation in one or more buildings of one or more alarm devices for the express purpose of giving visual or audible warning, or both, of an emergency such as a burglary, intrusion, fire, smoke, flood or like perils.[1]
AUDIBLE ALARM
A device that emits an audible signal for the premises that it is designed to protect.
CENTRAL DISPATCH STATION
A remote alarm monitoring station, other than a police and/or fire headquarters, away from the protected premises or building.
FALSE ALARM
Any emergency message or signal that is transmitted directly to the Glenville Public Safety Dispatch Center and is not cancelled by the resident and/or central dispatch station before the police and/or fire department is dispatched and which signal or message is not the result of a robbery, burglary, fire or other crime or emergency, excluding:
A. 
Alarms occurring during electrical storms, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards and other acts of God.
B. 
The intermittent disruption of the telephone circuits beyond the control of the alarm company and/or alarm owner/lessee.
C. 
Electrical power disruption or failure.[2]
PERSISTENT FALSE ALARMS
More than four false alarms within each calendar year.
A. 
For every false alarm over the four in a calendar year, the owner/lessee shall be charged a fee by the Town of Glenville.
B. 
Persistent false alarms shall not include those false alarms caused by acts of God, natural disaster or other causes not under the control of the owner/lessee. Malfunctions of alarm equipment shall be considered as under the control of the owner/lessee.
PERSON
Any natural person, partnership, corporation, association or other legal entity.
[3]
[1]
Editor's Note: The original definitions of ALARM DEVICE and ALARM PANEL, which immediately preceded this definition, were deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[2]
Editor's Note: Original Subsection D, re: alarms caused by equipment failure of the dispatch center, which immediately followed this subsection, was deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
[3]
Editor's Note: Original § 2A-2, Testing of system or device, and § 2A-3, Town liability, which immediately followed this definition, were deleted at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
A. 
Any owner/lessee, or occupant of property having an alarm system or device on his/her premises shall be charged for each and every false alarm to which the Fire or Police Department is dispatched in each twelve-month period a fee as set from time to time by resolution of the Town Board.[1][2]
[1]
Editor's Note: See Ch. 139, Fees.
[2]
Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I).
B. 
The Police Department shall maintain records indicating that it has dispatched the appropriate response to a false alarm, and a notice shall be issued in response to any false alarm, including a summary of the date, time and other relevant data relating to such dispatch. After the fourth false alarm, a notice shall be issued indicating that the next false alarm constitutes a violation.
C. 
Fees shall be payable to the Glenville Town Clerk. Any fee not paid by November 15 of any year shall be added to the January tax levy for the property at which the alarm system was installed.
Alarm systems installed or in use at the effective date of this chapter shall conform to the requirements of this chapter within 120 days after the effective date hereof.