(a) No person shall install, erect, insert, attach, build, create or otherwise use any alarm system which by electronic, radio, automatic or mechanical means on the occurrence of a given event, circumstance or condition transmits a signal or voice communication for reception by either the City of Brooklyn Fire Department or Police Department on their established telephone lines or radio bands unless the requirements hereinafter set forth in subsection (b) hereof have been complied with.
(b) (1) The installation of any alarm system in any building, residence, warehouse, show room, factory, commercial building or at any location whatsoever within the City causing a signal or voice communication to be transmitted to the existing telephone lines or radio receiving bands of the Brooklyn Fire Department or Brooklyn Police Department may be permitted only upon written application to the Director of Public Safety, and the approval by him of the application and the issuance of a permit for such installation.
(2) It shall be a condition of the approval of such application that the applicant:
A. Install at his own expense, at a location determined by either the Police or Fire Department, either a telephone or radio, or such other instrument as may be otherwise required to receive the signal or voice communication message transmitted by the alarm unit. All installation, operating, maintenance, and continuing costs of the receiving instrument must be borne by the applicant and proof of the current payment of all charges thereon must be presented to the Director of Public Safety by the fifth day of each and every month that the unit remains installed.
B. Pay to the City a fee of one hundred dollars ($100.00) concurrently with the approval of the application and the issuance of an installation permit.
(c) The receiving unit shall be permitted to remain for only so long as it does not interfere with the normal daily operation of the Police and Fire Departments. Upon the determination by the Director of Public Safety that such alarm system is not an aid to preventing crime, the apprehension of criminals, fighting fires or that it is disrupting or interfering with the daily operation of the Police or Fire Departments, the Director is authorized to cause the immediate disconnection, termination and removal of such unit.
(d) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall upon conviction be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(Ord. 1970-23. Passed 10-12-70.)