[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 1]
The following definition shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this Part:
FALSE ALARM
Any signal activated by an automatic protection device, any audible alarm or any other kind of direct or indirect signal given to which police, fire department or emergency response agencies respond which is not the result of an attempted illegal entry, burglary, intrusion, fire, medical or other similar emergency excluding, weather extremes and utility interruptions, which activates a protection device.
[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 2; as amended by A.O.]
The Township Board of Supervisors by authority granted to them as specified in the Second Class Township Code, as amended, hereby enacts this Part.
[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 3]
1. 
The Board of Supervisors of the Township find and declare that:
A. 
The majority of emergency alarms to which the Township emergency personnel respond are false. False alarms are herewith determined to be nuisances resulting in a waste of Township manpower and creating the potential for serious injury to police officers, fire department personnel and other emergency personnel responding to a false alarm. Further, when the said personnel are responding to false alarms, they are not available for the protection of residents and the general public in other parts of the Township.
B. 
The danger created through emergency responses created by nuisance alarms is unnecessary and hazardous.
C. 
The unnecessary waste of public and private revenue through responses to nuisance alarms must be eliminated.
D. 
Nuisance alarms have created conditions causing danger and annoyance to the general public.
[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 4]
It shall be unlawful for the property owner, lessee or any person occupying or otherwise on any premises within the Township, to make or cause to be made, a false fire or security alarm, directly or indirectly to any fire department or emergency response agency responding to alarms within the Township, when the false alarm is caused by faulty detection or alarm equipment or by the negligence of said property owner, lessee or person.
[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 5; as amended by A.O.]
1. 
The status of an alarm is to be determined by the Township Zoning Officer after consultation with the police department, fire company or other affected emergency response agency, and the decision shall be final.
2. 
Upon notification by the Township Zoning Officer of a false alarm, a written report shall be made within 14 days by the owner or lessee to the affected emergency response agency and shall contain what steps have been taken to eliminate future false alarms.
3. 
Service fees for false alarms shall be assessed by the Township in an amount as established, from time to time, by resolution of the Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. 2002-5, 6/12/2002, Art. 6; as amended by A.O.]
1. 
In the event a violation of this Part occurs, in addition to such other remedies as may be available under existing law, the Township may institute an action in equity to prevent, restrain, correct, abate or enjoin such violation.
2. 
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision of this Part, upon conviction thereof in an action brought before a magisterial district judge in the manner provided for the enforcement of summary offenses under the Pennsylvania Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $1,000 plus costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 90 days. Each day that a violation of this Part continues or each section of this Part which shall be found to have been violated shall constitute a separate offense.
3. 
The Township Zoning Officer shall be responsible for the enforcement of the within part, including, but not limited to, filing and prosecuting with the assistance of the Township Solicitor, violations in the appropriate jurisdiction including the office of magisterial district judge in whose jurisdiction the violation occurred.