As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated:
ALARM SUPPLIER
The business by an individual, partnership, corporation or other
entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing,
moving, monitoring or installing any alarm system or causing any alarm system
to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved,
installed or monitored in or on any building, structure or other facility.
ALARM SYSTEM
Any assembly of equipment, mechanical, electrical or battery operated,
arranged to signal the occurrence of a police, fire, hazard or medical emergency
requiring immediate attention and to which police or fire units are expected
to respond.
ANSWERING SERVICE
A service whereby trained employees, in attendance at all times,
receive prerecorded voice messages from automatic dialing devices reporting
an emergency at a stated location, where such employees have the duty to relay
immediately by live voice any such emergency message over a telephone line
to the communications room/dispatch desk of the Borough Fire Department and
Department of Police.
APPLICANT
Any natural person or legal entity who or which has an alarm system
and who or which desires the system to be monitored by the Borough.
AUTOMATIC DIALING DEVICE
A device which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed
to transmit a signal by a voice-coded message that indicates that an emergency
condition exists and an emergency response is required.
CENTRAL STATION
A protective system or group of such systems operated privately for
customers which accepts recorded messages from automatic dialing devices at
a central station having operators and guards in attendance at all times who
have the duty to take appropriate action upon receipt of a signal or message,
including the relaying of messages to the Borough's communication room/dispatch
desk.
FALSE ALARM
A.
An alarm activated in the absence of an emergency, whether willfully
or by inadvertence, negligence or an unintentional act, including the malfunction
of the alarm system, to which the Mountain Lakes Department of Police responds.
The definition excludes alarms caused by malfunctions of the Mountain Lakes
Department of Police receiving equipment if such alarm is directly connected
to the alarm board; testing or repairing of telephone or electrical lines
or equipment outside the premises; earthquakes, windstorms, thunder and lightning;
an attempted illegal entry of which there is visible evidence; a crime in
progress; or, in the case of an emergency medical alarm, an actual medical
emergency requiring police, fire and/or medical personnel.
B.
Multiple alarms received by the Department of Police before the system
can be deactivated within a reasonable period of time shall be considered
a single alarm.
C.
The definition of "false alarm" also includes the intentional activation
of a holdup alarm for other than a holdup in progress, the intentional activation
of a burglary alarm for other than a burglary, the activation of a medical
alarm for other than a medical emergency or the intentional activation of
a fire alarm for other than a fire or hazard.
INTERMEDIARY
A central station or answering service as herein defined.
KEY
To use a telephone line and equipment for transmitting a message
either directly or indirectly by an automatic dialing device.
Owners or users of audible alarms must equip such audible alarms with
a timing mechanism that will disengage the audible alarm after a maximum of
15 minutes.
The Chief of Police must approve all automatic dialing devices that
will transmit recorded messages directly to the Borough's communications room/dispatch
desk.
A battery-powered audible alarm system whose sole purpose is to notify
the occupants at that location of an emergency situation shall be exempt from
the requirements of this chapter if all of the following conditions exist:
A. The alarm is not connected to any mechanical or electrical
device that automatically notifies a person or agency outside of that location
that the alarm is activated.
B. The audible alarm does not sound outside of the location
(no external speakers or annunciators).
C. The internal signal emitted by the audible alarm does
not exceed 90 decibels.
D. The internal alarm does not cause undue annoyance or
alarm to occupants of adjoining premises.
Every alarm supplier selling, leasing or furnishing to any user or a
user who privately installs an alarm system which is located on premises within
the Borough shall be required to:
A. Cause each alarm system installed to be provided with
standby battery power which shall automatically and immediately take over
in the event of a power failure.
B. Install equipment that will neutralize electrical surges.
C. Deactivate any alarm system within 30 minutes of an alarm
being activated.
No person shall conduct any test or demonstration of any alarm system
without first notifying the shift supervisor of the Department of Police by
telephone or in person.
Alarm suppliers and installers shall furnish, at their own expense,
a copy of this chapter, operating instructions and a manual of operations
to owners, lessees or users of the alarm system being supplied at the time
of installation or at the time of change in owners, lessees or users of the
alarm system being supplied.