[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of North Versailles 3-19-1984 by Ord. No. 816 (Ch. 10, Part 1, of the
1987 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
This chapter shall be titled "the North Versailles Township
Alarm System Ordinance."
The following definitions are applicable under this chapter:
Any means used by any subscriber or provider, as those terms
are used in this chapter, for the purpose of notifying or otherwise
utilizing the services or efforts of the North Versailles Township
officials, directly or indirectly, regarding a burglary, attempted
burglary, breaking, breaking and entering, trespassing or any other
act which may or may not be deemed to be a criminal act; or any other
device which is, however, designed to cause some police or official
action or investigation by North Versailles Township officials. It
shall also include any burglar alarm or warning device whatsoever
which results in the summoning of North Versailles Township Police
or Fire Department.
An alert by any alarm system which is or which is intended
to be transferred or transmitted to the North Versailles Township
Police or Fire Department or other Township official, which discloses
following investigation that there was no burglary, attempted burglary,
break-in, breaking and/or entering, or any other act which would ordinarily
have caused the initiation of police investigation, police action
or other official Township action.
Any improvements on real estate which utilize an alarm system.
Any person or entity in the business of providing alarm systems
or alarm system protection to any premises within the Township of
North Versailles.
Any owner, user, occupier, or lessor of any type of premises
which are equipped with an alarm system, whether installed maintained
and serviced by a provider, any other entity or the subscriber.
Every provider of alarm system to premises within the Township
of North Versailles must register with the Township Secretary within
90 days of the effective date of this chapter. If any provider intends
to provide alarm systems or service hereinafter, said provider must
register with the Township of North Versailles prior to entering into
any contracts or in fact providing such service.
A.
The application of every provider shall bear the following data:
the name of the entity, the date of incorporation, the principal office,
the name of its liability insurance carrier with policy number and
coverage, names and addresses of all officers, name and address of
the person in charge of services to be rendered in North Versailles
Township, a telephone number or numbers where the North Versailles
Township Police or officials may have access to a responsible person
24 hours per day, every day of the year.
B.
The provider must supply a written explanation of how the provider's
alarm system works.
C.
The provider must provide a list enumerating the name and address
of every entity and premises to which the provider provides alarm
services in the Township of North Versailles. This list must be updated
to include additions and deletions every three months; that is, on
the first day of January, April, July and October of each year.
D.
The Secretary shall keep a record of all such applications, shall
supply a duplicate copy to the Chief of Police, and may request other
reasonable data as the Secretary sees fit. It shall be the duty of
the Chief of Police to record each and every false alarm as defined
herein and to report the same to the Secretary by the first day of
the following month.
A.
For every false alarm which occurs arising out of the use of any
alarm system, there is hereby imposed a service charge in the amount
of $25. Subscribers and providers shall be jointly and severally liable
therefor. The Township Secretary shall bill each and every person
responsible for each false alarm, which sum shall be payable within
30 days of the date of invoice. The invoice shall be deemed to have
been received if mailed by the Township Secretary postage prepaid
to the addresses given by the provider.
B.
If there shall be more than two false alarms for any one premises
in any calendar month, the service charge for each false alarm in
excess of two shall be $50.
C.
The failure to pay the false alarm service charge shall be deemed
to be a civil and a criminal wrong. The Township of North Versailles
shall have the right to collect said service charge by simple action
in assumpsit, and shall have the same right to lien, collect and enforce
said charge in the same manner as heretofore provided by Act of Assembly
for the enforcement, liening and claiming of municipal claims against
subscribers and/or providers.[1]
[Amended 11-16-1987 by Ord. No. 857; 8-15-1988 by Ord. No. 867]
Any person, firm or corporation who shall violate any provision
of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay
a fine of not more than $600 and/or to imprisonment for a term not
to exceed 30 days.
