It is the purpose of this chapter to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Town of Ogden by reducing the number of avoidable alarms to emergency agencies.
Avoidable alarms contribute to ineffective utilization of public safety manpower and equipment.
In addition, avoidable alarms require emergency responses which may contribute to a high accident rate and delayed responses to genuine emergencies. This chapter seeks to ensure that police, fire communications and ambulance facilities will be available to dispatch police, fire and ambulance personnel for actual emergencies and to alleviate the nuisance of audible alarms in the town. Another purpose of this chapter is to provide the town with the names of responsible people to contact in the case of activation of an alarm. The written authorization of the license authority granted to any person, business, firm, corporation or other entity to install, maintain or cause to be installed or maintained in their place of residence or business any police, fire or medical emergency alarm device, devices or system of policy, fire or medical emergency alarm devices. A device or an assembly of equipment which emits an audible response, which is intended to alert persons outside a premises to the existence of a hazard or emergency or which is intended to alert emergency agencies by automatically dialing an emergency agency or which is connected to a private answering point for the purpose of reporting such alarms to emergency agencies or which is directly connected to the emergency communications center or other emergency agency.