[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Allouez as § 31.17 of the Village Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fires and fire prevention — See Ch. 234.
It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Village of Allouez
to encourage the installation of reliable emergency alarm systems
to provide additional protection from fire, crime and other hazards
which might be a danger to persons and/or property but to discourage
the incidence of preventable or avoidable false alarms and protect
the Village from damage claims which may arise from the Village's
responding to a false alarm.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any business operated by a person for profit which alters,
installs, leases, maintains, monitors, replaces, sells, services or
responds to an alarm system, or which causes any of these activities
to take place.
One or more devices installed or placed to signal the presence
of a hazard requiring urgent attention to which law enforcement or
the Fire Department is expected to respond.
Any person who owns or rents the premises on which an alarm
system is maintained within the Village.
The activation of an alarm system through negligence of the
owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his employees or agents,
the activation of an alarm system through mechanical failure or malfunction
because of improper maintenance by the alarm user, or the activation
of an alarm system because of improper installation and/or use of
equipment by the alarm business, but does not include alarms caused
by hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes or other violent conditions
or acts of God.
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
B.
An alarm user shall correct any deficiencies in equipment or operation
of his alarm system within 30 days following either his actual knowledge
of such deficiency or the mailing by certified mail of a written notice
from the Village Clerk-Treasurer, whichever date is earliest. In the
event that such deficiency cannot be corrected within the thirty-day
period, the alarm system shall be deactivated until such corrections
are completed.
No alarm user shall allow, permit, install, use or maintain
on his premises any alarm system which, when activated, causes an
audible and/or visual signal externally to the premises upon which
it is located for a period in excess of 15 minutes.
Canvassers, solicitors, peddlers, and transient merchants involved in the sale of alarm systems within the Village of Allouez shall comply with the provisions of Chapter 188, Canvassers and Transient Merchants, of this Code.
