CHAPTER
29 1/2
REGULATION
AND CONTROL OF POLICE ALARM SYSTEMS
Sec. 29 1/2-01. Definitions - police alarm system.
Editor's Note - Ord. No. 81-30, not specifying the manner of codification, Secs. 1 - 6 thereof were added as Ch. 29 1/2, Secs. 29 1/2-1 and 29 1/2-16, at the
editor's discretion.
For the purpose of this chapter, the
following terms have the definition herein ascribed to them:
"Alarm agent" shall mean any person
who is employed by a business, firm, corporation, or other commercial entity to
conduct the business of owning, operating, maintaining, installing, leasing or
selling police alarm devices whose duties include selling, maintaining,
leasing, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing in or
on any building, place or premises within the City any alarm device defined in
this chapter.
"Alarm equipment
supplier"
shall mean any person, firm or corporation that sells,
leases or installs automatic protection devices, local alarms, police alarms,
burglar alarms or fire alarms.
"Alarm installation" shall mean any police
alarm device or aggregation of any police alarm devices installed on or within
a single building or on or within more than one building or area adjacently
located on a common site at a specific location.
"Automatic dial
alarm"
shall mean any police alarm device which is a telephone device or telephone
attachment that automatically or electronically selects a telephone line connected to a
private central station or police headquarters and reproduces a prerecorded
message to report a criminal act or other emergency requiring police response.
"Chief of Police" shall mean the Chief of the Kankakee Police Department or his designated representative.
"City" shall
mean the City of
"Direct
alarm" shall mean any police
alarm device running directly from a specific location to police headquarters
and connected by leased telephone lines.
"False
alarm” shall mean the activation of a
burglar alarm, police alarm or holdup alarm by other than a forced entry,
attempted forced entry, unlawful entry, or actual hold-up or attempted holdup
on the premises.
"Holdup alarm" shall mean an alarm system signaling a robbery or attempted robbery.
"Intrusion" shall mean any entry into an area or building equipped with one or more police alarm devices by any person or object whose entry actuates a police alarm device.
"Local alarm (audible)" shall mean those alarms that sound audibly on the premises whether or not connected to any central station or police headquarters by any means or sounding on the premises where the alarm is connected.
"Person" shall mean an individual, corporation or organization, partnership, business, or legal entity.
"Police headquarters" shall mean a location housing receiving equipment privately or publicly owned and serving the police department of the City.
"Private central station" shall mean any premises, usually maintained by an alarm company, equipped to receive and displace signals from intruder alarm systems.
"Subscriber"
shall mean a person who contracts for or receives service or maintenance with
respect to an alarm system from an alarm business. (Ord.
No. 81-30, Sec. 1,
Sec. 29 1/2-02. Alarm system installation certificate required; initial and yearly renewal fees.
No police alarm, burglar alarm, or holdup
alarm installation is to be made in the City, whether residential or commercial,
unless there is first on file with the Kankakee Police Department an approved
alarm system installation certificate, which certificate shall be valid for one
year. The installation certificate will
be supplied by the Police Department upon request, and upon payment of ten
dollars ($10.00) by the subscriber for its initial certificate. Thereafter, the subscriber shall pay five
dollars ($5.00) yearly for renewal of said certificate. (Ord. No. 81-30,
Sec. 2(A),
Sec. 29 1/2-03. Responsibility of supplier and user for
certificate information.
It will be the responsibility of the
alarm equipment supplier to obtain the information required on the alarm system
installation certificate. It will be the
responsibility of the user to keep the information updated. Failure to supply information for the alarm
system installation certificate shall be grounds for denial or disconnection of
the alarm by the City at the alarm termination point at Police Headquarters. (Ord. No. 81-30, Sec 2(A),
Sec. 29 1/2-04. Authority of Police Chief to inspect
installations; violation of provisions, notification, failure to comply.
(a) For the purposes of enforcing the provisions
of this chapter, the Police Chief or his representative(s) shall have the
authority to enter any premises in the city in or upon which any alarm system
or alarm business subject to this chapter is located to inspect the
installation and/or operation of such alarm system or alarm business.
(b) If
such inspection reveals any violation of the provisions of this chapter or if
it is the opinion of the inspecting officer that the alarm is detrimental to
the safety of the user, a written report detailing such violation shall be
promptly sent to the Chief of Police. If
the Chief agrees with the written report, the owner, lessee, or other person
responsible for the alarm system or business in violation will be
notified. Such notification shall
require the correction within thirty (30) days after the notice of violation
discovered. Failure to comply shall
result in the disconnection of the alarm at the location of the violation. (Ord.
No. 81-30. Sec. 2 (B),
Sec. 29 1/2-05. Approved material and equipment;
response to request for repair or adjustment.
(a) All alarm equipment installations shall
be comprised of Underwriter Laboratories approved materials and equipment.
(b) Each alarm business shall have employees
and equipment so located as to be able to respond to a request for repair or
adjustment of any alarm system that such alarm business sold, maintained or
inspected within four (4) hours of the request for this service. (Ord. No. 81-30,
Sec. 2 (C), (D),
Sec. 29 1/2-06. Automatic dial alarms - Keyed to police emergency trunk lines prohibited.
No automatic protection devices known as
automatic dial alarms or dialers installed after the effective date of this
chapter by any person on premises of any kind in the City shall be keyed to any
police emergency trunk line or to any line used by the police for either
emergency purposes or for general information from the Police Department. (Ord. No. 81-30,
Sec. 3(A),
Sec. 29 1/2-07. Automatic dial alarms - Responsibility of equipment supplier.
Any alarm equipment supplier who installs
dialers or automatic phone dialers in the City for the purposes of sending any
prerecorded emergency message directly to the Police Department shall first
fill out an alarm system installation certificate and have this form approved
by the Chief of Police. After approval,
a designated phone number will be given in order to key such devices to a
special number into the Police Headquarters.
(Ord. No. 81-30; Sec. 3(A),
Cross references - Alarm system
installation certificate required, Sec. 29 1/2-2; responsibility of supplier
for certificate information, Sec. 29 1/2-3.
Sec. 29 1/2-08. Alarm agents to install devices; fees for connection
charges.
After the effective date hereof, no one
except an alarm agent shall install any automatic protection device known as an
automatic dial alarm within the City.
All automatic dial alarms so installed after the effective date hereof
shall pay a fee for the connection charge as prescribed by the City Council. (Ord. No. 81-30,
Sec. 3 (A), 6-15-81).
Sec. 29 1/2-09. Alarm equipment; authority of Police Chief to set rules
and regulations;
charges for connection to be approved by City Council.
A police alarm may terminate and give a
signal at the Police Headquarters. The Police
Chief may set standards and rules and regulations governing such equipment and
may limit the number of alarm systems so terminating. If alarm recording equipment in the Police
Headquarters is privately owned or leased and the owner makes any charge to
subscribers for connection to that equipment such a charge must be reasonable
and approved by the City Council. (Ord. No. 81-30, Sec. 3(B),
Sec. 29 1/2-10. Time limit on ringing of audible alarms.
Every local alarm shall be constructed, equipped
and installed in such fashion that such an alarm shall be incapable of sounding
for more than thirty (30) minutes following a single activation thereof. The sounding of such audible alarm for a
continuous period of more than thirty (30) minutes shall constitute a public
nuisance. The owner of any alarm which
is presently installed which does not conform to requirement of this chapter
shall have sixty (60) days to modify such alarm system so it shall not be capable
of ringing in excess of thirty (30) minutes.
(Ord. 81-30, Sec. 3 (C), 6-15-81).
Sec. 29 1/2-11. Response by owner to alarm; refusal or excessive response time.
When an alarm has been activated at a
business or private residence and the police respond, the owner or his
representative shall be present at such location after being requested to do so
by a representative of the Kankakee Police Department. Response will be as soon as possible but
shall not exceed one hour from time of request.
Refusal to respond or excessive response time shall constitute grounds
for disconnection of the alarm by the City at its termination point. (Ord. No. 81-30, Sec. 3 (D),
Sec. 29 1/2-12. Fees for false alarms.
False alarm fees shall be charged and
collected by the City from the person maintaining such police alarm, burglar
alarm or holdup alarm. Fees shall be as
follows:
(1) For the first false alarm in one
calendar month no fee shall be charged, unless the City shall show willful and
wanton misconduct on the part of the person to be charged or his employees or
agents.
(2) For the second false alarm response and
every succeeding false alarm in one calendar month, a fee of twenty dollars
($20.00) shall be charged for each false alarm response. (Ord.
94-20;
(3) In tabulating the prior number of false
alarms, a ten-day grace period for new alarms or major modifications to
existing alarm systems shall be granted upon request of the alarm user to the
Chief of Police. (Ord. No. 81-30, Sec. 4,
Sec. 29 1/2-13. Determination of alarm as public nuisance.
(a) The Chief of Police may determine an
alarm to be a public nuisance or adverse to the safety of the public. Upon such determination, the Chief of Police
shall notify the alarm user in writing by first class mail of such fault and
require that the alarm user submit a written report to the Chief of Police
within fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice, describing efforts to
discover and eliminate the cause or causes of the problem.
(b) If the alarm user fails to submit such a
report to the Chief of Police within fifteen (15) days or if the alarm user
submits a report as required but the Police Chief determines that the report is
unsatisfactory or that the alarm user failed to show by the report that he has
taken or will take reasonable steps to eliminate the problem, the Chief of
Police shall issue written notice to the alarm user by registered mail of his
intent to have the alarm disconnected at the alarm's point of termination at
Police Headquarters.
(c) If the alarm user is a private control
station, the Chief of Police may refuse to respond to an alarm notification of
any alarm which is determined to be a public nuisance or adverse to the safety
of the public. (Ord.
No. 81-30, Sec. 5 (A),
Sec. 29 1/2-14. Testing of automatic protection devices.
No person shall conduct any test or
demonstration of an automatic protection device or signaling device directly
connected with the Police Headquarters without obtaining permission from the
Chief of Police. Permission to test
shall not be required when the alarm device is connected to an intermediary
receiver, or not relayed to Police Headquarters. (Ord. No. 81-30,
Sec. 5(B),
Sec. 29 1/2-15. Authority to contract for alarm
equipment installation; fees from subscribers; collection by comptroller.
The Mayor and City Clerk of the City
shall be authorized to enter into contracts with persons installing alarm
equipment. Said contract shall provide
for the payment of a fee as prescribed by the city council for the connection
charge and upon the subscribing persons agreeing to pay a monthly monitoring
charge prescribed by the City Council.
The collection of all funds shall be handled under the direction of the
Comptroller of the City. (Ord. No. 81-30, Sec. 6 (A),
Sec. 29 1/2-16. Penalty for violating alarm system
regulations.
Any person violating any of the
provisions of this chapter shall be punished by a fine not less than Fifty
Dollars ($50.00) and not to exceed not more than Five-Hundred
Dollars ($500.00) for each offense.
Said fines may be imposed as provided in Section 36-12 of this Code.(Ord. No. 81-30, Sec. 6 (B),
REGULATION
AND CONTROL OF POLICE ALARM SYSTEMS
INDEX
REGULATION AND CONTROL
OF POLICE ALARM SYSTEMS
Alarm agents to install
devices................................................................................... 29.5
- 08
Alarm equipment;
authority to set rules ...................................................................... 29.5
- 09
Alarm system
installation ........................................................................................... 29.5
- 02
Approved alarm material
and equipment.................................................................... 29.5
- 05
Authority to contract
for alarm equipment.................................................................. 29.5
- 15
Authority to inspect
alarm installations........................................................................ 29.5
- 04
Automatic dial alarms –
responsibility of equipment supplier…………………………29.5 - 07
Automatic dial alarms................................................................................................ 29.5
- 06
Definitions ‑
police alarm system................................................................................ 29.5
- 01
Determination
of alarm as public nuisance.................................................................. 29.5
- 13
Fees
for false alarms.................................................................................................. 29.5
- 12
Penalty
for violating alarm system regulations.............................................................. 29.5
- 16
Response by owner to
alarm..................................................................................... 29.5
- 11
Responsibility for alarm
certificate information............................................................ 29.5
- 03
Testing
of automatic protection devices...................................................................... 29.5
- 14
Time
limit on ringing of audible alarms........................................................................ 29.5
- 10