[Adopted 6-23-1992 by Ord.
No. 7-92]
Any central alarm monitoring station which monitors alarm equipment
located in the Township of Mullica must register with the Township of Mullica
and thereafter report each alarm connected to it which originates from the
Township of Mullica. A central alarm monitoring station must call in all alarms
reported that are registered in the Township of Mullica. Reporting of alarms
must include the alarm registration number and address of the property transmitting
the alarm.
All owners or lessees must equip audible alarms with a timing device
which will limit the period during which the alarm will sound to 15 minutes.
All owners or lessees of alarm equipment, using the services of a central alarm monitoring station, must register with the Township of Mullica prior to the installation of the alarm system. Owners or lessees of existing alarm systems, using the services of a central alarm monitoring station, must register with the Township of Mullica within 60 days from the effective date of this article. There shall be no fee charged for registration of alarm systems. Any owner or lessee who fails to register within the prescribed period shall disconnect the alarm system and shall discontinue using the services of any central alarm monitoring station. Central alarm monitoring stations must also register with the Township of Mullica. (Registration will permit the Township of Mullica to contact the owner, lessee or their representatives in the event of an emergency.) Owners or lessees of alarm equipment, not using the services of a central alarm monitoring station, must comply with §§
71-2,
71-4,
71-10,
71-11,
71-12 and 71-13 of this article.
Alarm equipment which utilizes voice recordings is prohibited from dialing
any telephone lines utilized by the Township of Mullica.
"Alarm equipment suppliers" are defined as any person, company, corporation
or organization who or which operates a central alarm and monitoring station
or who or which sells, installs, leases, maintains, repairs or services an
alarm system within the Township of Mullica. Individual property owners or
lessees of alarm systems who maintain alarm systems for their own use are
not to be considered suppliers under this section. Any alarm equipment supplier
must register with the Township of Mullica and obtain an annual mercantile
license through the Township Clerk's office.
The mercantile license fee for an alarm equipment supplier shall be
$100.
Any alarm equipment supplier doing business in the Township of Mullica
must provide the purchaser or lessee of said equipment with a copy of this
article and the forms necessary for registering with the Township of Mullica.
Each registered alarm equipment supplier shall make service available
on a twenty-four-hour-per-day basis, seven days a week, to repair said alarm
systems or to correct any malfunction that may occur.
At the time of installation, the alarm equipment supplier shall furnish
to any buyer or lessee written information as to how repair service may be
obtained at any time, including the telephone number of the alarm system supplier
or agent responsible for service. The buyer or lessee and the alarm equipment
supplier shall be responsible for having the device disconnected or repaired
immediately upon notice that the alarm system is not functioning properly.
When alarm systems fail to comply with the operational requirements set forth and the Township of Mullica Communications Department has concluded that the alarm system should be disconnected in order to relieve the burden of responding to false alarms, the Supervising Telecommunicator is authorized to require that the owner or lessee or their representative disconnect the alarm system until it is made to comply with the operational requirements. Any notification requesting disconnection of an alarm system shall be by certified mail with return receipt requested. If disconnection of the defective alarm is not accomplished promptly and the Supervising Telecommunicator determines that the malfunctioning alarm system is repeatedly sending false alarms, the violations and penalties stated in §
71-12 of this article will apply.
For the purpose of defraying the costs to the Township of Mullica of responding to a false alarm, the owner or lessee of an alarm system shall, as a condition of operation, be permitted five false alarms in each calendar year. After that, such owner, lessee or user shall pay to the Township of Mullica $50 for each false alarm originating from the system. This sum shall be and constitute a civil claim by the Township of Mullica and does not affect the penalty provisions of §
71-12.