[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
(now Borough Council) of the Borough of Beach Haven 2-12-2002 by Ord. No.
2002-2. Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
An automatic protection device to detect burglary, smoke,
fire, holdup or other similar type of event.
Alarms which directly dial into the Borough of Beach Haven
Police/Fire Departments and deliver a recorded or digital message.
Any alarm activation causing direct notification to the Borough
of Beach Haven Police/Fire Departments, or causing an audible alarm
without such notification, which is not caused by an actual burglary,
smoke, fire, holdup or attempted burglary. Accidental, known or unknown
conditions causing the false alarm shall not excuse the same.
Alarms which directly dial into an intermediary, also known
as a "central station," to report the activation of an alarm, whereupon
the intermediary calls the Borough of Beach Haven Police/Fire Departments
to report such activation.
Prohibited alarms shall be as follows:
A.
Direct keying of alarms.
B.
Indirect keying of alarms except if notification is
by live voice and not by recorded or digital notification from the
intermediary, and if the intermediary, in the case of a burglar alarm,
provides its customers with a call back to seek verification that
the alarm was not a false alarm for the purpose of limiting the number
of false alarm calls to the Police Department.
Owners or lessees having an audible alarm system
must have working timing mechanisms that will disengage the audible
alarm after a maximum period of 15 minutes.
All components comprising an alarm system shall
be maintained by the owner or lessee in good repair to assure maximum
reliability of operation.
Any person, corporation, partnership or other
entity who owns or controls an alarm or other similar device in the
Borough of Beach Haven, which causes three false alarms in any calendar
year, shall be deemed in violation of the provision of this chapter
for each false alarm thereafter. If more than one false alarm occurs
on one particular date, for the purposes of this false alarm limit,
it shall be considered one false alarm.
A.
Penalties. Violations of this chapter will be subject
to the sanctions provided by law.
B.
Continuing offense. Upon conviction, a violator shall
have seven days to either remove the alarm or bring it into compliance
with this chapter. Failure to do so shall constitute a new and subsequent
offense.
C.
Jurisdiction. The Municipal Court of the Borough of
Beach Haven shall have jurisdiction over this chapter.
