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A local law.,e11 titled Amendnnent to Alarm Systems
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ALARM SYSTEMS
Chapter 5
ALARM SYSTEMS
Local Law
No. 1
1988
A LOCAL LAW REGULATING AND CONTROLLING ALARM SYSTEMS WITHIN THE
UNINCORPORATED AREA OF THE TOWN OF MAMARONECK, WESTCHESTER COUNTY, NEW
YORK
5-1. Purpose.
5-2. Definitions.
5-3. License required; application; fees.
5-4, Responsibility for systems; equipment; false alarms.
5-5; Effective date.
[HISTORY; Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck 1-6-88 as
Local Law No. 1, 1988. Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire prevention -- See Ch. 27.
Police Department -- See Ch. 59.
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Be it enacted by the Town Board of the Town of Mamaroneck, as follows:
5-1. Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to provide regulations and standards
applicable to alarm devices, alarm businesses, alarm agents and alarm
users and to provide a schedule of charges applicable for false alarms
transmitted through such alarm devices.
5-2 Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply: I
ALARM AGENT -- Any person who is employed by any commercial entity
that is licensed hereunder as an alarm business, whose activities
include selling, leasing, installing, repairing, servicing or
maintaining, in or on any building, place or premises, any alarm
device within the Town of Mamaroneck.
ALARM BUSINESS -- Any business, firm, corporation or other commercial
entity which is in the business of selling, leasing, installing,
repairing, servicing or maintaining an alarm device or devices and
performs such services within the Town of Mamaroneck.
ALARM DEVICE -- Any device which, when activated by an unauthorized
entry, fire, smoke or other emergency requiring Police Department or
Fire Department response, transmits a signal to the alarm indicator
panel at police headquarters or to a private central alarm station
and/or produces any audible or visual signal to which the Police
Department or Fire Department is expected to respond. Excluded from
this definition and from the provisions of this chapter are devices
designed to alert the occupants of a building of an emergency
condition therein and which do not produce any audible or visual
signal which is perceptible outside of such building. Also
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excluded from the definition and the provisions of this chapter are
alarm devices installed in or on any motor vehicle.
ALARM REVIEW BOARD -- A committee consisting of the following: the
Town Administrator or his designee; the Police Commissioner or his
designee ; the Fire Chief or his designee and the Town Clerk.
ALARM USER -- Any person or entity on whose premises an alarm device
is installed in the Town of Mamaroneck.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION -- Any private or commercial entity which
receives signals from alarm devices within the Town of Mamaroneck and
relays information pertaining to such alarm devices to police €
headquarters.
DIALER ALARM -- A telepone-interfaced device that automatically
connects to police or fire headquarters and transmits a recorded
message to report an emergency condition requiring Police Department
or Fire Department response,
FALSE ALARM -- Any alarm activation to which Police or Fire Department
personnel respond which is not the result of an unauthorized entry,
fire, smoke or other emergency.
INTENTIONAL FALSE ALARM -- Any false alarm, as defined herein, which
is intentionally activated by any person.
LICENSING AUTHORITY -- For Alarm Business and Alarm Agent licences or
permits the Licensing Authority shall be the Westchester County
Department of Consumer Affairs.
For Alarm User permits, the Licensing Authority shall be the Town
Clerk or his designee.
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LOCAL ALARM Any alarm device which is not connected to the alarm
indicator panel at police headquarters but which, when activated,
causes an audible or visual signal perceptible to persons on the
outside of the premises within which said alarm device is installed.
MALFUNCTION -•- A deficiency or other failure of an alarm device which
results in a false alarm but which is not attributable to any fault or
negligence on the part of the alarm device user.
TOWN - The unincorporated area outside the territorial limits of any
incorporated Village within the Town.
5-3 License required; application; fees.
A. Authority to grant licenses, permits and identification cards. {
(1) The Westchester County Department of Consumer Affairs is
hereby authorized to grant a revocable license, upon the
approval of the Police Commissioner of said Department, to
any alarm business as defined within this chapter.
(2) The Westchester County Department of Consumer Affairs is
hereby authorized to grant a revocable license and
identification card, upon the approval of the Police
Commissioner of said Department, as defined within this
chapter.
(3) The Town Clerk is hereby
roval of authorized
thePolice Commissioner, toe
permit, upon the app any
alarm user as defined within this chapter.
B. Application for licenses, permits and identification cards.
(1) All alarm businesses, as defined within this chapter, who
desire to conduct such business within the Town of
Mamaroneck, shall apply to the licensing authority for an
alarm business license on a form designated by the licensing
authority.
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(2) Each person desiring to be an alarm agent in the Town of
Mamaroneck, before acting as such an alarm agent, shall
apply to the licensing authority and comply with the
requirements of said authority.
(3) Any property owner or lessee of -property in the Town of
Mamaroneck having on his or her premises an alarm device
shall apply to the licensing authority for an alarm user
permit, on a form designated by the licensing authority.
Such alarm user permit is non-transferable. Such permit
shall be valid for a one-year period on a calendar year
basis, expiring on December 31 of each year.
Nothwithstanding this provision, a holder of an alarm user
permit may continue to operate his permitted alarm system
until January 31 of the year following the expiration of his
alarm user permit.
C. License and permit fees. Annual .license and permit fees shall be
nonrefundable and based upon the following schedule:
Alarm user permit: ten dollars ($10.) per calendar year or part
thereof.
D. Violations. It shall be a misdemeanor for any person, business
or commercial entity to operate, sell, lease, install, repair,
service or maintain an alarm device within the Town of Mamaroneck
as defined in this chapter, without first having obtained a
license as provided in this chapter.
E. Denial, suspension or revocation of license or permit and
disconnection of alarm system.
(1) The Alarm Review Board may require the denial, suspension or
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revocation of any permit when deemed necessary for
violations of any of the provisions of this chapter or the
violation of any standards or regulations promulgated by the
licensing authority pursuant to this chapter.
(2) Any permit issued pursuant to this chapter shall be
surrendered immediately upon suspension or revocation by the
Alarm Review Board. it shall be a misdemeanor to fail to
surrender such license, permit or identification card which
has been suspended or revoked as herein provided.
5-4. Responsiblity for systems; equipment; false-alarms.
A. Town assumes no responsibility for such systems. Notwithstanding
the payment of any fee and/or the issuance of any permit as
herein required, the Police Department, Fire Department and the
Town of Mamaroneck shall be under no obligation whatsoever
concerning the adequacy, the operation or maintenance of the
alarm device so installed, and the Town of Mamaroneck and its
authorized agents hereby assume no liability whatsoever for any
failure of any such alarm device or for failure to respond to any
such alarms or for any act of omission or commission as a result
of any such alarm, device or system.
B. Specific equipment required and/or prohibited.
(1) Effective January 1, 1989, no person shall use, cause or
permit to be used any dialer alarm, as defined within this
chapter,
(2) Alarm users directly or indirectly utilizing the services of
a Central Station Monitoring facility must ensure that,
prior to police notification of an alarm activation the
Central System Monitoring Facility shall first attempt to
verify the authenticity of the alarm and the need for
emergency resonse by police personnel. This procedure shall
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be initiated by the Central System Monitoring Facility and
shall include an attempt to contact persons at the alarmed
premises. This requirement shall not apply to holdup/Panic
Alarms or Fire Alarms as defined in this Chapter.
The alarm user shall be responsible for compliance with
these provisions.
C. Removal of unlawful equipment. The Alarm Review Board, whenever
aware of the existence or use of any alarm device which is not
operated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, or
which does not meet standards for such alarm devices as set
pursuant to 5-4B(i) of this chapter, may order the disconnection
of such alarm device, and it shall be unlawful to disobey such an
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D. False alarms.
(1) Any owner or lessee of property having an alarm device or
system of devices on his or its premises, and any user of
any services or equipment furnished by a licensee under this
chapter, shall pay to the Town of Mamaroneck, upon demand, a
charge for each and every false alarm, as defined within
this chapter, to which Police Department or Fire Department
personnel responds, in each calendar year, as follows:
(a) First two false alarms: no charge, warning only.
(b) Three (3) to four (4) false alarms: fifteen ($15.) for
each occurrence.
(c) Five (5) to six (6) false alarms: thirty dollars ($30.)
for each occurrence.
(d) Seven (7) to fifteen (15) false alarms:
fifty dollars ($50.) for each occurrence.
(a) Additional false alarms: two hundred fifty dollars
($250.) per occurrence.
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(2) More than five (5) false alarms in any calendar year may
constitute grounds for the suspension or revocation of an
alarm user's permit as determined by the Alarm Review
Board. Any alarm user charged with a false alarm penalty as
prescribed herein may appeal such charge or penalty, in
writing, within ten (10) days after receipt of the notice of
such penalty and may appear before the Alarm Review Board at
a place and time selected by the Board. False alarm
penalties or charges may be waived only by order of
Alarm Review Board. All penalties as prescribed herein
shall be collected and recorded by the licensing authority
and remitted to the Town Comptroller. Failure to pay a
false alarm charge or penalty as prescribed shall subject
such alarm user to the suspension or revocation of his alarm
user permit, as determined by the Alarm Review Board.
5-5. Effective date.
This local law shall take effect immediately.
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matter therein which is nut applicable.)
1, (Pi naI adoption by local legislative bud}' only.)
l hereby certify that the'local law annexed hereto,dr'sif;nate'J as 10001 law NO. ........1........of 19 Via...
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of the ., of.....:................................was dal}• passed by the................:Low.n..lSa:zr�3...._...•-.................................
Town (Y=me:uE legislative ll�dy]
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on.....Tanuary,29,,,,,,,,,,,,,•....,.19...$$ in accordance with the applicable provisions of law.
2. Wassage lr} local legislative body With appro�•al or no disapproval by Eleetive, Chief Execative Officer,'
or repussag^after disapproval.)
I hereby certify that (lrr local law annexed hereto,designatedas local late NO.....................of 19........
County
of the City of................... ...was duly passed by the
...........
01Yf1 {['ieme u!Lc•iylnrive Body]
Village not disapproved
on..................................................19........ and was approved by the .......................................................
repassed after disapproval Elective Chief Executive Officer*
and was deemed duly adopted oil•••••••••.......'..........................•••••••••••••19•• •••• ,
in accordance with the applicable
provisions of law.
3. (Final adoption by referendum.)
1 hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No................... of 19..........
County
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of the of........:..........••.•........•.•.•..was duly passed by the...............................,..........,..........................................
('own (Name of LcBiatative nedr)
Village not disapproved
Oil............................. ..........19........ and was approved by the......................:........................................
repassed after disapproval Elective Chic[It:zecutire Officer
csu......................................................................19,........ Suclt local law was submitted to the people by reason of a
ni.:udatory rcfcrenduui,nnd received the affirmative vote of a majority of the qualified electors Voting
paruliaSive
general
thereon at the special election held on......................................................19........ , in accordance with the appli.
annual
cable provisions of law.
4. (Subject to pi:rnfissive referendum,and final adoption because no valid petition filed requesting
refcrendunt.)
I hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,designated as local law No................... of 19..........
County
of the City of.................. ....... was duly passed by the..............................................................................,.on
Town (Nome of LegWalive Body)
Village not disapproved
...... Elective chief Executive officer*
repassed after disapproval
,,,.,,•,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,19......... Such local law being subject to a permissive referendum and no
valid petition requesting such referendum hating been filed, said local law was deemed duly adopted on
...............................................1 19........, in accordance with the applicable provisions of law.
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*Elective Chsef Exoeutive Officer means or atclude3 the chief executive officer of a carroty elected on a county-wide basis
or,if there be none,the chairman of the county legislative body,the mayor of a city or village or the supervisor of a town,
where truth offker i+vested with power to approve or veto local laws or ordinances.
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5. (Cit) local law concerning Charter rc%ision proposed by petition.)
I Iwreb}'certifythat the local II%V.tanaxed lie reto,des ign ate dasIocnI IawNo. ....................of 19........
of the'r City of..........................................................................Ravin;, keen submitted to referendum pursuant to the
provisions of 37 of tikes ."lunicipal lk.tee UPLaw,aud i.avim rrceived the affirmative vote of a majority
of the qualified electors of such city voting thereon at the special election held on ..................................
general .............
................19............became operative.
6, (County local law concerning adolGon of Charter.)
I hereby certify that the local law annexed hereto,closignated as Local Latin 1';o. ......oC 19...... of the
County of ......................................... State of New York. having been submitted to the Icltctots at the
General Election of November........... 19 ........... pursuant to subdivisions 5 and 7 of Section 33 of the Muni-
cipal tame Rule Law,and having rcceirecl the aftirntatit'e vote of a majority of the grtalifi d electors of the
cities of said county as a unit and of a majority of the qualified electors of the towns of said county
considered as a unit voting at said general election, became operative.
(If any other authorized form of final adoption has been followed, please provide all appropriate
certification,)
CtU' I further certify that I have compared the preceding local law with the original on file in this office
and that the same is a correct transcript therefrom and of the whole of such original local law, and was
finally adopted in the manner indicated in paragraph............1.............. above.
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Date: January 28, 1988
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(Seal)
(Certification to he executed by County Attorney, Corporation Counsel, Town Attorney. Village Attorney
or other authorized Attorney of locality.)
STATE OF NEW YORK
COUNTY OF ...................
1, the undersigned, hereby certify that the foregoing local law contains the correct text and that all
proper proceedings have been had or taken for the enactment of the local law annexed hereto.
... ...... ............ ....... . . .
Edward Lieberman Signarure
....... .. Counsel to the Town.... .. . . ..
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Date: January 28, 1988 Co".ty`
Ci* of..........Mamaroneck
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