(A) Any alarm user installing an alarm system within the Town of Hamden shall register with the Hamden Police Department or in cases of a fire and/or medical alarm system the Hamden Fire Department at least 60 days after the installation date of the alarm system.
(B) All existing alarm systems shall be registered with the Hamden Police Department or in cases of a fire and/or medical alarm system, the Hamden Fire Department, within 60 days of the effective date of Ordinance No. 584.
(C) At the time of registration, an alarm user shall be informed and execute a consent, in such a form as may be prescribed by the town, that the registration of an alarm user's system may be suspended and that the alarm user shall pay to the town for false alarms as described below.
(D) At the time of registration, the Police Department or in the case of a fire and/or medical alarm system, the Fire Department shall be furnished, in writing the following information: name, address and telephone number of the alarm user; other person(s) authorized in an emergency to gain access to the protected area; and the alarm company who installed the system, is maintaining the system, or who monitors the system. It shall be the responsibility of each alarm user to notify, in writing, the Police Department or in the case or a fire and/or medical alarm system, the Fire Department, with any changes.
(E) The registration of an alarm user's alarm system may be suspended by the Police Chief during any one calendar year if the system has generated 12 or more false alarms and no verifiable effort has been made by the alarm user to eliminate the false alarm.
(F) No person, firm or corporation shall install an automatic telephone dialing device used with an alarm system within the town, terminating at the Town of Hamden Central Communications Center, after the effective date of Ordinance No. 584.
(G) Automatic telephone dialing devices in existence as of the effective date of Ordinance No. 584 shall be programmed to a special telephone number, which shall be designated by the Police Chief or in the case of a fire and/or medical alarm system, by the Fire Chief, within 60 days of the effective date of this chapter.
(H) All alarm systems, as defined in this chapter, which sound an audible signal which may be heard outside of the protected premises, shall be equipped with a device which shall limit the duration of the audible signal to not more than 30 minutes in accordance with Section 22a-69-5.1 of the Administrative Regulations of the Department of Environmental Protection of the State of Connecticut.
(Ord. 470, passed 6-3-02; Am. Ord. 584, passed 5-3-10) Penalty, see § 100.99