[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of Newburgh 7-16-1974.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
The purpose of this chapter is to establish standards and controls of
the various types of intrusion, holdup and other emergency signals from police
alarm devices that require police response, investigation and safeguarding
of property at the location of an event reported by any signal transmitted,
telephoned, radioed or otherwise relayed to the police by an alarm device
or by any person acting in response to a signal actuated by an alarm device.
The Town Board hereby declares that the legislative intent of this chapter
is to apply its provisions to any business, firm, corporation or other commercial
entity that is in the business of owning, operating, maintaining or installing
a police alarm device or devices, a dial alarm device or devices or a system
of police alarm devices or dial alarm devices designed to summon the police
to any location in response to a signal or other transmission generated or
produced by such devices.
For the purposes of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
Any police alarm device or aggregation of police alarm devices installed
on or within a single building or on or within more than one (1) building
or area adjacently located on a common site at a specific location.
Any facility operated by a private firm that owns or leases a system
of police alarm devices, which facility is manned at all times by trained
operators employed to receive, record and validate alarm signals and to relay
information about such validated signals to the police radio dispatch room
when appropriate.
Any police alarm device which is a telephone device or telephone
attachment that automatically or electronically selects a telephone line connected
to a central alarm station and reproduces a prerecorded message to report
a criminal act or other emergency requiring police response.
Any police alarm device connected directly by leased telephone wires
from a specific location to the police radio dispatch room.
Any police alarm device actuated by a holdup robbery at a specific
location or actuated by a victim of a holdup robbery at a specific location.
Any entry into an area or building equipped with one (1) or more
police alarm devices by any person or object whose entry actuates a police
alarm device.
Any device, when actuated by a criminal act or other emergency requiring
police response, which transmits a prerecorded message or other signal by
telephone, radio or other means to a central alarm station or directly to
the police radio dispatch room or produces an audible or visible signal designed
to notify persons within audible or visible range of the signal.
The police radio dispatch room and other enclosures housing privately
or publicly owned equipment serving the police radio dispatch room.
Except as hereinafter provided, it shall be unlawful for any business,
firm, corporation or other commercial entity to operate, maintain or install
a police alarm device or devices, a dial alarm device or devices or system
of police alarm devices or dial alarm devices, as defined by the terms of
this chapter, without written permission of the Chief of Police.
A.Â
Limitation. No police alarm device which transmits a
prerecorded message or other signal directly to the police communication facilities
shall be connected to or use a public primary telephone trunk line.
B.Â
Change of location. If the location of the police communication
facilities should be changed at any time, permittees under this chapter shall
not attempt to charge the Town of Newburgh with any resulting cost of moving
alarm systems or any parts thereof.
C.Â
Installation and maintenance costs. All costs and recurring
charges incurred in the installation and maintenance of systems permitted
by this chapter in police communication facilities shall be borne by the permittee.
D.Â
Rules and regulations. The Chief of Police may promulgate
rules and regulations that may reasonably be necessary for the purposes of
assuring the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of police alarm devices,
holdup alarms, dial alarms and alarm installations owned, operated, maintained,
installed or sold by a permittee under this chapter and of administering and
enforcing the provisions of this chapter.
A.Â
Central alarm station systems. The Chief of Police is
hereby authorized to prescribe the location and the manner of installation
of a private or a regular business telephone line installed in the police
radio dispatch room from a central alarm station for the express purpose of
providing direct telephone communication between a permittee and the Police
Department for use to report a police alarm.
B.Â
Direct alarm systems. The Chief of Police is hereby authorized
to prescribe the location and the manner of installation of all connections
and equipment, cabinets and accessories of an approved direct alarm system
within the police communication facilities for the purpose of providing a
direct alarm system where the visible and audible signals therefrom may be
readily seen and heard by police personnel.
C.Â
The Chief of Police is hereby authorized to determine
whether space for dial alarm systems is available within the police communication
facilities.
[Amended 6-19-1978 by L.L. No. 2-1978]
The fee which shall be paid by the permittee to the Town Clerk for the privilege of utilizing a police alarm device connected directly to police communication facilities shall be as prescribed by Chapter 104, Fees, of the Town of Newburgh Municipal Code.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter
shall, upon conviction thereof, be punishable by a fine of not more than two
hundred fifty dollars ($250.) or imprisonment for a term not exceeding fifteen
(15) days, or both.
