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Town of Southold Code Supplement No. 51
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date of the most recent legislation included in this supplement is 11-
14-89 (L.L. No. 21-1989).
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Legislation, by number or date of adoption, included in this
supplement: L.L. No. 21-1989.
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§ 24-1 ALARM SYSTEMS § 24-1
Chapter 24
ALARM SYSTEMS
§ 24-1.
Purpose.
• § 24-2.
Definitions.
§ 24-3.
License required; authority; applications.
§ 24-4.
Fees.
§ 24=5.
(Reserved)
§ 24-6.
Suspension or revocation of licenses:
§ 24-7.
Records to be kept and provided.
§ 24-8.
General provisions.
§ 24-9.
Special provisions.
§ 24-10.
Penalties for offenses.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Board of the Town of
Southold 8-25-87 as Local Law No. 14-1987. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Police Department — See Ch. 18:
Uniform Fire Prevention and Building Code — See Ch. 45.
§ 24-1. Purpose.
The purpose of this chapter is to establish standards and controls of
the various types of fire, intrusion, holdup and other emergency
signals from fire and police alarm services that require Fire
Department or police responses, investigation or safeguarding of
property at the location of an event reported by a signal which is
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transmitted by telephone or radio to the Police or Fire Department
from a central station as hereinafter defined.
§ 24-2. Definitions.
For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:
ALARM AGENT [Repealed 4-5-88 by L.L. No. 6-1988] is
ALARM INSTALLATION — Any fire or police alarm device
or aggregation of fire or 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.
BUSINESS LICENSEE — Any business, firm, corporation
or other commercial entity which is in the business of owning,
operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or selling a fire or
police alarm device, or system of fire or police alarm devices,
which business, firm or corporation or other commercial entity
is an owner, operator, provider of maintenance service,
installer, lessor or seller of said device, or system of devices,
subject to the license requirements of this chapter.
CENTRAL ALARM STATION — Any facility operated by a
private firm that owns or leases a system of fire or police
alarm devices, which facility is manned by operators who
receive, record or validate alarm signals and relay information
about such validated signals to the Police or Fire Department
when appropriate.
DIAL ALARM — Any fire or 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 or police headquarters and reproduces a
prerecorded message to report a criminal act or other
emergency requiring the Police or Fire Department.
DIRECT ALARM — Any fire or police' alarm device
connected directly by leased telephone wires from the specified
location to police headquarters or the Fire Department.
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operated, 'maintained, installed, leased or sold by the
business licensee; testing procedures involved; and any
other information the licensing authority shall determine
to be law.
(2) Such business license shall be issued for a one-year
period, on a calendar -year basis or a part thereof, and no
• license shall extend beyond December 31 of each year.
Notwithstanding this provision, a person having a
business license may conduct such business through
January 31 of the year following the expiration of his
business license.
(3) (Reserved)'
(4) Any property owner or lessee of property in the Town of
Southold having on his or its premises a fire or police
alarm device, or system of fire or police alarm devices,
shall apply to the licensing authority for a permit to own
or otherwise have such device on his or its premises. The
application shall contain provisions relating to the device
or system of devices installed or to be installed on the
premises. No such device may be installed ' on the
premises of the owner or lessee and no presently existing
fire or police alarm device complying with the provisions
of this chapter shall be modified after the effective date of
this chapter prior to the licensing authority's having
issued a permit to such owner or lessee. Such permit shall
be valid for a period of one (1) year from issuance and
must be renewed upon expiration. [Amended 11-14-89
by L.L. No. 21-1989]
§ 24-4. Fees. [Amended 4-5-88 by L.L. No. 6-1988; 11-14-89 by
• L.L. No. 21-1989]
License and permit fees shall be as follows:
A. Business license: one hundred dollars ($100.) per calendar year
or part thereof.
' Editor's Note: Former Subsection C(3), regarding alarm agent license applications, was
repealed 4-5-88 by L.L. No. 6-1988.
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B. Owner or lessee permit.
(1) Initial permit: twenty-five dollars ($25.).
(2) Renewal permit: ten dollars ($10.).
§ 24-5. (Reserved)1
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§ 24-6. Suspension or revocation of licenses. [Amended 4-5-88
by L.L. No. 6-19881
A license issued under this chapter may be suspended or revoked by
the licensing authority after notice and hearing by the licensing
authority for the violation of any of the provisions of this chapter or
any regulation or regulations promulgated by the licensing authority
pursuant to this chapter, and any license or identification card issued
hereunder shall be surrendered immediately to the licensing authority
upon such suspension or revocation. No part of a license fee shall be
refunded when a license is suspended or revoked. Any applicant
whose application for a license or permit has been denied or any
business licensee, owner or lessee whose license has been suspended or
(Cont'd on page 2407)
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1 Editor's Note: Former § 24-5, User fees; was repealed 11-14-89 by L.L. No. 21-1989.
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