[Adopted 1-19-1930; repealed and reenacted in
the same form 7-10-2006 by L.L. No. 4-2006]
[Adopted 1-2-1979 by L.L. No. 1-1979]
The purpose of this article is to provide regulations and standards
applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses, alarm agents and alarm users
as defined in this article.
For the purpose of this article, 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,
whose duties include any of the following: selling, maintaining, leasing,
servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing, in or on
any building, place or premises, any alarm device as defined in this article
within the Village of Elmsford.
ALARM BUSINESS
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 article.
ALARM DEVICE
Any device which, when activated by a criminal act or by fire, smoke
or other emergency requiring Police or Fire Department response, transmits
a signal to the central alarm monitoring facility at police or fire headquarters
or to a private central alarm station and/or produces an audible or visible
signal to which the Police or Fire Department is expected to respond. Excluded
from this definition and from the coverage of this article are alarm devices
which are designed to alert or signal persons within the premises in which
the alarm device is installed of an attempted unauthorized intrusion, holdup,
fire or other emergency and is not intended to alert persons outside the premises.
ALARM INSTALLATION
Any police or fire alarm device or aggregation of police or fire
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.
ALARM USER
Any person on whose premises an alarm device is owned, operated,
used or maintained.
CENTRAL ALARM MONITORING FACILITY
A facility owned 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 police and fire headquarters when appropriate.
DIAL ALARM
A telephone device or telephone attachment that automatically or
electronically selects a telephone line connected to police or fire headquarters
and reproduces a prerecorded message to report a criminal act or other emergency
requiring Police or Fire Department response.
DIRECT ALARM
Any alarm device which transmits a signal over a leased telephone
line to the central alarm monitoring facility at police and fire headquarters
or to a private central alarm station.
FALSE ALARM
Any alarm resulting from the activation of an alarm device to which
the Police or Fire Department responds which is not the result of a robbery,
burglary or other crime, fire or emergency.
LICENSING AUTHORITY
The Chief of Police who shall be directly responsible to the Board
of Trustees for the purpose of this article.
LOCAL ALARM DEVICE
Any alarm device not connected to the central alarm monitoring facility
or to a private central alarm station which, when activated, causes an audible
and/or visual signaling device to be activated on the exterior of the premises
within which the device is installed.
MALFUNCTION
A mechanical deficiency or other fault or failure in an alarm device
which results in a false alarm but which is not caused by any fault or negligence
on the part of the alarm device owner or operator.
MANUAL ALARM DEVICE
Any alarm device in which activation of the alarm signal is initiated
by the direct action of the alarm user.