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Timestamp: 2020-07-02 11:43:43
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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', '§ 160', 'art 70', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7', '§ 7']

Town of Montville, CT Alarm Systems
§ 160-3 Registration of alarm systems.
§ 160-4 Installation by qualified persons; electric permit required.
§ 160-5 Automatic telephone-dialing devices.
§ 160-6 Audible signals.
§ 160-7 Penalties for false alarms; penalties for offenses.
§ 160-9 Alarm Appeals Board.
§ 160-10 Appeals process.
§ 160-11 Exclusions.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Council of the Town of Montville 7-9-2001 by Ord. No. O-W-4[1] (Part 70 of the 1991 Compilation). Amendments noted where applicable.]
Editor's Note: Statutory authority for this ordinance is found in C.G.S. § 7-148. This ordinance further provided that it takes effect 1-1-2002.
Regulate alarm systems within the Town of Montville;
Reduce the incidence of false alarms in the Town thereby enhancing public safety and eliminating unnecessary expense to the taxpayers; and
Establish an Alarm Appeals Board.
A board constituted of duly appointed citation hearing officers who shall conduct a hearing upon receipt of an appeal from one who is aggrieved by an assessment of fine(s) levied pursuant to this chapter.
ALARM OWNER OR USER
Any person, firm, corporation or other business entity who or which owns, controls, operates, and maintains any alarm system as defined in Subsection A of the definition of "alarm systems" in this section.
Any device or equipment that is capable of automatically calling and relaying recorded emergency messages to any state police or municipal police or fire department telephone number, or that is capable of automatically calling and relaying recorded emergency messages or other forms of emergency signals to an intermediate third party that thereafter calls and relays such emergency message to a state police or municipal police or fire department telephone number.
Any alarm system falling within the definition of Subsection A above of this definition that is designed to transmit a signal in the event of intrusion, holdup or other type of emergency situation.
Any system that falls within the definition of Subsection A above of this definition that is designed to transmit an alarm relating to a fire.
AUTOMATIC TELEPHONE-DIALING SERVICE
Refers to an alarm system that automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message indicating the existence of an emergency situation that the alarm system is designed to detect.
Refers to a company equipped to receive burglar, fire, panic, intruder, or holdup alarms from each of its customers and which then transmits to the State Police, Montville Police or the Town of Montville Fire Departments the location of any such alarm the central station operating company receives.
Refers to the Chief Executive Officer of the Town of Montville pursuant to the Montville Town Charter until such time as the Town may organize an independent Police Department and appoints a Chief of Police.
Refers to a person duly appointed by the Mayor to conduct appeal hearings.
The unintentional activation of an alarm system as hereinbefore defined as a result of negligence, mechanical failure, malfunction, improper installation, improper operation, ignorance, inadvertence, or other cause excluding activation caused by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, or other abnormal weather events or other abnormal events generally referred to as an "act of God"; also excluded is the intentional activation of a system with criminal, malicious or mischievous intent that would be a violation under applicable criminal statutes.
Refers to the duly appointed Fire Marshal of the Town of Montville.
January 1 through June 30, or July 1 through December 31, as the case may be, of any calendar year.
A person, firm, corporation, or other business entity who owns, controls or maintains on his or her business or residential premises a fire alarm system equipped to send a fire alarm signal directly to the Montville Police or Town of Montville Fire Departments by way of a master box.
Any person, firm, corporation or other business entity who owns, controls or operates an alarm system as hereinbefore defined who has not complied with the provisions of C.G.S. § 7-282b shall provide the information required by the following section of this chapter within 30 days after notification to do so.
Any person or persons, firm, corporation or other business entity installing an alarm system within the Town of Montville shall register at least 10 days prior to installation the following information to the Chief of Police for burglar alarms, and the Fire Marshal for fire alarms. The Chief of Police and the Fire Marshal are allowed the prerogative to authorize installation sooner if they choose.
For monitored systems the name, address and telephone number of the central station operating company.
For systems not monitored by a central station monitoring company the name, street number (apartment number, suite number or floor, as may apply) and home and work telephone number of the owners/users of the premises to be protected. The names, addresses, home and work telephone numbers of at least two persons other than the alarm owner/user who can be contacted 24 hours a day, who are authorized by the alarm owner/user to respond to the premises upon request of the police or fire officer in charge and who have access to the premises and the authorization to silence or reset an alarm system.
Every alarm owner/user shall be responsible for updating the information required herein to be provided to the Montville Police Department or the Town of Montville Fire Departments within five working days of any change.
Alarm systems shall be installed only by a licensed person, owner or person meeting the requirements set forth in the building and electrical codes of the State of Connecticut and the Connecticut Fire Safety Code. No alarm system shall be installed unless an electric permit to install has been obtained from the Town building official or his designated representative, as is required by the building and electric codes of the State of Connecticut.
No person, firm, business or corporation shall install an automatic telephone-dialing device that will transmit an alarm message within the Town of Montville terminating at the Montville 911 Emergency Dispatch Center. If at the passage of this chapter an alarm system is equipped with such automatic telephone-dialing device, the alarm owner/user shall have 30 days to disconnect such automatic telephone-dialing device.
All alarm systems, as defined in this chapter, which sound an audible signal that may be heard outside the protected premises shall be equipped with a device that will limit the duration of such audible signal to not more than 10 minutes in accordance with Section 22a-69-5.1 of the Administrative Regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection of the State of Connecticut.
In the event that there are two false alarms from a particular residence, business, firm or corporation within a half-year period, the Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal shall issue a written warning as to the violation of this chapter, and if there is a third false alarm within the same half-year period, the Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal may assess a penalty of $100 for that false alarm and each subsequent false alarm that occurs during the remainder of the half-year period.
Any person, firm, business or corporation who shall violate any provision of this chapter may be fined $100 for each violation thereof. Each violation shall be considered a separate offense.
In the event of the violation of any provision of this chapter, the Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal shall issue a written warning to the alleged offender setting forth the specific nature of the violation and the specific section of this chapter violated. If the violation continues, the Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal, as the case may be, may issue a citation pursuant to C.G.S. § 7-148(c)(10)(a) assessing the fine(s).
Upon issuance of a citation, the provisions of C.G.S. § 7-152c, as amended, shall be followed.
Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes, the Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal is authorized to seek an injunction or to take such other legal action as may be applicable to any particular situation.
The Chief of Police or the Fire Marshal shall collect any and all penalties assessed pursuant to this chapter and shall deposit same with the Town Treasurer for deposit into the Town's general fund.
Pursuant to C.G.S. § 7-152c, as amended, the Town of Montville hereby establishes an Alarm Appeals Board which shall have the powers and duties conferred upon it in C.G.S. § 7-152c.
The Alarm Appeals Board will be comprised of three citation hearing officers appointed by the Mayor to three-year terms.
The membership shall consist of a member of the Town Council, a member of the Public Safety Commission, and the third member shall be from the public at large.
The Office of the Mayor or the Fire Marshal's Office shall provide clerical and other support to the Alarm Appeals Board.
Persons, businesses, or corporations issued a citation shall be concurrently apprised of their right to a hearing before the Alarm Appeals Board and the process for filing such an appeal pursuant to this chapter.
Any person, firm or corporation aggrieved by the issuance of a citation may submit a written appeal within 10 days of receiving such citation, pursuant to C.G.S. § 7-152c, as amended. Any person, firm or corporation who does not deliver or mail a written demand for a hearing within the 10 days following receipt of a citation shall be deemed to have admitted liability.[1]
Upon receipt of a timely appeal from a false alarm charge, the Alarm Appeals Board shall hold a hearing to consider it and shall mail a notice of the time and place of said hearing to the alarm user at his/her last known address at least 15 days before the hearing. On the basis of information provided by the alarm user and other information introduced at the hearing, the Board shall affirm the charge was properly imposed or rescind the charge if it finds the charge was not properly imposed.
This chapter shall not apply to alarm systems owned or controlled by the Town of Montville, the State of Connecticut, or the United States of America.