The purpose of this chapter is to establish
standards and controls of the various types of intrusion, holdup and
other emergency signals from alarm devices that require response,
investigation and safeguarding of property at the location of an event
reported by a signal which is transmitted by telephone or radio or
which is otherwise relayed to the Police or Fire Department by an
alarm device requiring investigation or other action by any person
acting in response to a signal actuated by an alarm device, including
such devices already in use within the Village of Monroe.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following
definitions shall apply:
ALARM AGENT
Any person who is employed by any business, firm, corporation
or other commercial entity that is licensed hereunder to conduct the
business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or
selling alarm devices and whose duties include any of the following:
selling, maintaining, leasing, servicing, repairing, moving or installing,
in or on any building, place or premises, any alarm device, as defined
in this chapter, within the Village of Monroe.
ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when actuated by a criminal act or other
emergency requiring response, transmits a prerecorded message or other
signal by telephone, radio or other means to a central alarm station
or directly to the Police or Fire Department or produces an audible
or visible signal designed to notify persons within audible or visible
alarm range of the signal.
ALARM INSTALLATION
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.
BUSINESS LICENSEE
Any business, firm, corporation or other commercial entity
which is in the business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing,
leasing or selling an alarm device or devices or system of alarm devices,
which business, firm, corporation or other commercial entity 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.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION
Any facility operated by a private firm that owns or leases
a system of alarm devices, which facility is manned by operators who
receive, record or validate alarm signals and relay information about
such validated signals to the Police or Fire Department, when appropriate.
COMMERCIAL USE PREMISES
Includes, but is not limited to, all property used for commercial
and business, industrial, warehouse, or similar purposes.
[Added 3-19-2019 by L.L.
No. 6-2019]
DIAL ALARM
Any alarm device which is a telephone device or telephone
attachment that automatically or electronically selects a telephone
line connected to a central alarm station or Police or Fire Department
headquarters and reproduces a prerecorded message to report a criminal
act or other emergency requiring response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any alarm device connected directly by leased telephone wires
from a specific location to police or fire headquarters.
FALSE ALARM
Any signal actuated by an alarm device to which the Police
or Fire Department responds, which is not the result of a fire, holdup,
robbery or other crime or emergency.
INTRUSION
Any entry into an area or building equipped with one or more
alarm devices by any person or object whose entry actuates an alarm
device.
POLICE AND FIRE HEADQUARTERS
Police and fire headquarters and other enclosures housing
privately or publicly owned equipment serving the Police and Fire
Departments.
PREMISES
Includes real property and buildings or structures.
[Added 3-19-2019 by L.L.
No. 6-2019]
Application for licenses and permits shall be
made as follows:
A. All businesses, firms, corporations or other commercial
entities which are in the business of owning, operating, maintaining,
installing, leasing or selling an alarm device or devices or system
of alarm devices who desire to conduct business in the Village of
Monroe shall apply to the licensing authority for a business license
on a form to be supplied by the licensing authority. The application
shall contain specific provisions relating to the quality, efficiency
and effectiveness of the device or system of devices owned or to be
operated, maintained, installed, leased or sold by the business licensee,
testing procedures involved and any other information the licensing
authority shall determine to be reasonably necessary to effectuate
the purpose of this chapter. Such business license shall be issued
for a one-year period, on a calendar-year basis or a part thereof,
and no license shall extend beyond December 31 of each year. Notwithstanding
this provision, a person having a business license may conduct such
business through January 31 of the year following the expiration of
his business license.
B. Any person who is to be an alarm agent in the Village
of Monroe, before acting as such alarm agent, shall apply for and
receive a revocable alarm agent license. The application shall be
made to the licensing authority on a form to be supplied by the licensing
authority. The application shall contain specific provisions relating
to the alarm device or devices, holdup alarms, dial alarms or alarm
installations which are to be sold, leased, installed, operated or
maintained by the alarm agency, the skill and competency of the application
as an alarm agency and such other information the licensing authority
determines to be reasonably necessary to effectuate the purpose of
this chapter. Such license shall be issued for a one-year period,
on a calendar-year basis or a part thereof, and no license shall extend
beyond December 31 of each year. Notwithstanding this provision, a
person having an alarm agent license may act as such alarm agent through
January 31 of the year following the expiration of this license.
C. Any
owner of commercial use premises in the Village of Monroe having installed
on its premises an alarm device or system of alarm devices shall apply
to the licensing authority for a permit to own or to otherwise have
such device or system on its premises. The application for a permit
shall be on a form developed by resolution of the Village Board of
Trustees and modified from time to time in the same manner and shall
contain such information as deemed necessary to effectively and efficiently
respond to an alarm at the premises. Such permit shall be obtained
by all owners of commercial use premises by such date as shall be
fixed by resolution by the Village Board of Trustees and in any event
each device or system is to be installed or modified.
[Amended 3-19-2019 by L.L. No. 6-2019]
License fees for a business license, alarm agent
license and owner's or lessee's permit shall be such as shall be fixed
from time to time by resolution of the Village Board of Trustees.
A license issued under this chapter may be suspended
or revoked by the licensing authority after notice and hearing by
the licensing authority for the violation of any of the provisions
of this chapter or of any regulation or regulations promulgated by
the licensing authority pursuant to this chapter, and any license
or identification card issued hereunder shall be surrendered immediately
to the licensing authority upon such suspension or revocation. No
part of a license fee shall be refunded when a license is suspended
or revoked. Any applicant whose application for a license or permit
has been denied or any business license alarm agent, owner or lessee
whose license has been suspended or revoked by the licensing authority
may appeal such denial, suspension or revocation, in writing, to the
Board of Trustees within 30 days after the date of denial or of the
notice of suspension or revocation and may appear before such Board
of Trustees at a time and place to be determined by the Board of Trustees
in support of his or its contention that the license should not have
been denied, suspended or revoked. The decision of the Board of Trustees
shall be final.
Every business, firm, corporation or other commercial
entity conducting the business of owning, operating, installing, leasing
or selling alarm devices within the Village of Monroe shall maintain
complete and accurate records of all installations of alarm systems
in the Village of Monroe and shall produce such records for inspection
by the licensing authority upon demand.
[Amended 7-6-1999 by L.L. No. 3-1999]
Except as stated in §
64-8C herein, any person, firm or corporation who does not pay any charge or fee established in this chapter or who violates any provision of this chapter shall be subject to a fine as set forth in Chapter
1, Article
II, General Penalty, §
1-14. A separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during which a violation occurs or is committed.