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Timestamp: 2019-04-25 04:07:13+00:00

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§ 32-2 Prohibition against excessive false alarms.
§ 32-3 Records; notification; assessment of fines.
§ 32-4 Penalties for excessive false alarm offenses.
§ 32-5 Prohibitions on audible alarms.
§ 32-6 Penalties for audible alarm offenses.
Editor's Note: This local law also provided for the repeal of former Ch. 32, Alarms, adopted 11-19-1973, as amended.
Any signal or other communication transmitted to the Police Department that results in a police response to a building where there exists no robbery, burglary, other crime or violation of law or no fire, medical or other emergency requiring police attention. A signal transmitted to the police desk that is promptly followed by a phone call to the Police Department to cancel a police response will not constitute a false alarm. A signal transmitted to the police desk caused by power outages, wind, rain, lightning or other inclement weather will not constitute a false alarm. Repeated false signals or other communication transmitted to the Police Department occurring within a twelve-hour period after the first signal or communication will not constitute additional false alarms.
It shall be unlawful for any owner, lessee or occupant of any real property in the Incorporated Village of Lake Success to permit an alarm system to generate a false signal or to become activated by error more than five times during any consecutive twelve-month period.
The Police Department shall be responsible for recording, documenting and maintaining records relating to false alarms. After the fourth alarm occurring in any consecutive twelve-month period, the Police Department shall cause a letter to be sent, by certified mail, to the property owner, lessee and occupant notifying said individual or individuals that after the next false alarm, summonses will be issued for each additional occurrence of a false alarm, and, if convicted upon such summonses, fines will be assessed.
There shall be no penalty for up to five false alarms within any consecutive twelve-month period.
Six through 10 false alarms: imposition of a mandatory fine of $25 for each occurrence of a false alarm subsequent to the sixth false alarm and prior to the eleventh false alarm occurring within any consecutive twelve-month period.
Eleven through 15 false alarms: imposition of a mandatory fine of $50 for each occurrence of a false alarm subsequent to the fifth false alarm and prior to the sixteenth false alarm occurring within any consecutive twelve-month period.
Sixteen or more false alarms: imposition of a mandatory fine of $100 for each occurrence of a false alarm subsequent to the fifteenth false alarm occurring within any consecutive twelve-month period.
Suffer or permit such burglar alarm or fire alarm to emit sound audible beyond the boundaries of such real property for a continuous period of more than 15 minutes, whether or not said alarm has been equipped with the automatic shutoff device hereinabove required.
An offense against the provisions contained in § 32-5 of this chapter shall constitute a violation under the Penal Law and shall be punishable, upon conviction thereof, by a fine of not more than $250 or by imprisonment for not more than 15 days, or both. Each twenty-four-hour period of continued violation of § 32-5 shall constitute a separate additional violation.

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