§ 7-5. Duties of alarm user.

A. 

An alarm user shall:

(1) 

Obtain an alarm permit for the alarm system as required in § 7-3;

(2) 

Maintain the alarm site and the alarm system in a manner that will minimize or eliminate false alarms;

(3) 

Provide the monitoring company with updated names and telephone numbers of at least two individuals who are able and have agreed to:

(a) 

Receive notification of alarm system activation at any time;

(b) 

Respond to the alarm site within 30 minutes at any time; and

(c) 

Upon request, grant access to the alarm site and deactivate the alarm system if necessary;

(4) 

Make every reasonable effort to have a Responder to the alarm system's location within 30 minutes when requested by the Police Department in order to:

(a) 

Deactivate an alarm system;

(b) 

Provide access to the alarm site; and/or

(c) 

Provide alternative security for the alarm site; and

(5) 

Not activate an alarm system for any reason other than an occurrence of any event that the alarm system was intended to report.

B. 

After the effective date of this chapter, it is a violation for any person to operate an alarm system in the Village of Floral Park that has a siren, bell or other signal that is audible from any property adjacent to the alarm site that sounds for longer than 10 consecutive minutes after the alarm is activated; or that repeats the ten-minute audible cycle more than two consecutive times during a single armed period. An administrative fee of $100 shall be assessed for each violation of this section.

C. 

An alarm user shall have an alarm installation company inspect the alarm system after three false alarms within a one-year permit period. The alarm user must have an alarm installation company, within 30 days of written notice, modify the alarm system to be more false-alarm resistant and provide additional user training as appropriate. An alarm user shall submit a written statement from an alarm installation company stating that the alarm system has been inspected and repaired (if necessary) by the alarm installation company. Failure to comply shall result in the suspension of the alarm user's permit.

D. 

An alarm user shall maintain at each alarm site a set of written operating instructions for each alarm system.

E. 

All alarm users shall agree with their alarm installation company and/or monitoring company to undertake an "acclimation period" for the first seven days after installation of an alarm system, during which time, the alarm installation company and/or monitoring company will have no obligation to and will not respond to any alarm signal form the alarm site, excluding panic, duress and holdup signals, and will not make an alarm dispatch request to law enforcement, even if the alarm signal is the result of an actual alarm event.