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Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 27', '§ 68']

Town of Tuxedo, NY Alarm Devices and Systems
§ 27A-1 Legislative intent.
§ 27A-2 Definitions.
§ 27A-3 Automatic telephone devices.
§ 27A-4 Direct connections.
§ 27A-5 Test device required.
§ 27A-6 Automatic cutoff system required.
§ 27A-7 Control of public nuisances.
§ 27A-8 Contact system.
§ 27A-9 Registration required.
§ 27A-10 Alarm registration application.
§ 27A-11 Written authorization for entry.
§ 27A-12 Alarm permit fee.
§ 27A-13 Installation and maintenance.
§ 27A-14 False alarms.
§ 27A-15 (Reserved)
§ 27A-16 Collection of fees and charges.
§ 27A-17 Implementation of requirements.
§ 27A-18 Exception; liability of town.
§ 27A-19 Penalties for offenses.
Chapter 27A Alarm Devices and Systems
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Tuxedo 12-15-1997 by L.L. No. 6-1997. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Town Board of the Town of Tuxedo hereby finds that standards and controls regarding intrusion, fire, holdup and other emergency signal devices or protective services are necessary to safeguard the public health, safety and welfare and that such standards and controls will afford greater emergency protection to the public, will expedite emergency communication and response, will facilitate coordination of emergency procedures and identification of persons and devices engaged in providing such procedures, will minimize false alarms and other misleading or confusing signals and will encourage the use of reliable systems and personnel to facilitate emergency services available to the public. This chapter is intended to serve the foregoing purposes by prohibiting the sale, leasing, use, installation, repair or maintenance of any police, fire or medical emergency alarm device or protective service in the Town of Tuxedo except in conformity with the provision of this chapter and rules and regulations promulgated hereunder.
Any device which, when activated, transmits a prerecorded message or other signal by telephone, radio, central alarm station or audible or visible signal designed to cause any person within audible or visual range to notify the Police Department, Fire Department or ambulance requiring their respective emergency response.[1]
[Amended 7-12-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999]
Any signal actuated by an alarm device or system of police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices which is not the result of a natural disaster, act of God, criminal act, fire or other emergency, resulting in police, fire or other emergency services response. The term "false alarm" shall include human error and equipment malfunction causing the alarm to be activated and which results in police or fire response.[2]
Editor's Note: The former definitions of "alarm license" and "alarm licensee," which immediately followed this definition, were repealed 7-12-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999.
Editor's Note: The former definition of "licensing authority," which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 7-12-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999.
No person shall install, cause to be installed, maintain or cause to be maintained in a structure, building or establishment in the Town of Tuxedo an external audible police, fire or medical emergency alarm device which does not also contain an automatic cutoff system or feature automatically cutting off the source of power to the alarm sounding device after it has sounded for a period of not longer than 15 minutes.
Upon receiving complaint(s) regarding a continuous uninterrupted or continuously recurring signal, the Police Department shall endeavor to contact the alarm user or those persons designated by the alarm user as contacts, in an effort to abate the nuisance. In the event that the Police Department is unable to contact the alarm user or those designated as contacts, or if the aforesaid persons cannot or will not curtail the audible signal being emitted by the alarm system, and if the Police Department is otherwise unable to abate the nuisance, the Police Department may direct a police officer, fire fighter or a qualified alarm technician to enter upon the property outside the home or building in which the alarm system is located and take any reasonable action necessary to abate the nuisance.
Any property owner or lessee of property in the Town of Tuxedo, having on its premises an alarm device or system of alarm devices, shall register with the Town Clerk, on a form to be supplied by the Town Clerk, the existence of such a device on its premises. The registration application shall contain provisions relating to the device or system of devices installed or to be installed on the premises. Registration applications for alarm devices existing on the premises on the effective date of this chapter must be made to the Town Clerk by such date as shall be fixed by resolution of the Town Board. No such devices may be installed on the premises of the owner or lessee, after the effective date of this chapter, without prior registration with the Town Clerk. Registrations shall be updated each time a device or system is to be installed or modified.
Under no circumstances shall the cost of any police, fire or medical emergency alarm device, devices or system of police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices and the maintenance of the same be charged to the Town of Tuxedo, its Police or Fire Department and/or ambulance service. The owner or lessee of such police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices shall be solely responsible for the service of his or her police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices and/or correcting any malfunction of the same that may occur.
The Chief of Police of the Town of Tuxedo shall cause to be kept an up-to-date and accurate log of all false intrusion alarms, and the Chief of the Tuxedo Joint Fire District shall cause to be kept an up-to-date and accurate log of all false fire alarms, and the Captains of the ambulance corps shall cause to be kept an up-to-date and accurate log of all false medical alert alarms. These logs shall be transmitted to the Town Clerk on a monthly basis.
Any failure by such owner or lessee to pay the aforementioned charges within 30 days of the demand therefore shall be deemed a violation of this chapter in accordance with the provisions of § 27A-19 of this chapter.
In addition to the above charges, should more than six false alarms occur at any one premises during any one alarm permit year, the Town Board of the Town of Tuxedo, following a hearing at which such owner or lessee may be present and present evidence, may revoke the alarm permit of the owner or lessee of such premises and order said owner or lessee to disconnect or dismantle or otherwise remove from the Police Department or Fire Department and/or ambulance service and/or central alarm station any police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices or system of devices causing such false alarms, at no expense to the town, and any failure by such owner or lessee to comply with said order within 10 days of its issuance shall be deemed to be a violation of this chapter.
§ 27A-15 (Reserved) [1]
Editor's Note: Former § 27A-15, Power of licensing authority, was repealed 7-12-1999 by L.L. No. 7-1999.
All police, fire and medical emergency alarm permit fees and false alarm charges shall be collected by the Town Clerk. False fire alarm charges shall be remitted 75% to the Tuxedo Joint Fire District and 25% to the town.
The Town of Tuxedo shall take every reasonable precaution that alarm signals received by the town are given appropriate and immediate attention. Nevertheless, the town shall not be liable for any defects in operation of any police, fire or medical emergency alarm devices for failure to respond appropriately on any alarm signal or for the transmission of alarm signals or messages. In the event that the town orders the disconnection or removal of a police, fire or medical emergency alarm device or system of police, fire or medial emergency alarm devices pursuant to the provisions of § 68-14E of this chapter, the town shall incur no liability therefrom.