A. 
Police and fire alarm devices play an important role in our community's efforts to safeguard life and property. However, the effectiveness of an alarm device is diminished if public safety personnel cannot quickly locate and access the site from which the alarm signal emanates.
B. 
This chapter requires owners and lessees of property, both residential and nonresidential, upon which fire and/or police alarm systems have been installed to register the same with the Town Clerk. In addition, all commercial structures and new residential structures, or existing residential properties for which a building permit is issued, having fire alarm systems which, when activated, transmit a signal to a central alarm station shall be required to provide a key lock box and, if required by the Fire Marshal, an information storage cabinet, which will assist the responding fire department in gaining access to the premises, as well as providing important information which can assist the responding emergency services department during an emergency call. Standards are also adopted to assure that gates, walls, fences, berms and other physical barriers do not unnecessarily impede access of emergency response vehicles.
C. 
By imposing charges for multiple false alarms in a calendar year, the Town hopes to create a heightened sense among persons using alarm devices to take whatever steps are necessary to decrease the occurrence of false alarms and thereby avoid diverting the attention and energy of the personnel of the Town Police Department and the various fire departments from true emergencies and other important activities.