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Charges for false alarms shall be paid to the Town Clerk of the Town of Aurora at the Aurora Municipal Center, within 30 days of the mailing date of any notice provided pursuant to §35-8 of this chapter. SECTION 11. FAILURE TO REMIT CHARGES. Failure of a real property owner or lessee of property on which an alarm system is installed to pay any false alarm charges, as defined in §35-7 of this chapter, within 30 days of the mailing date of a notice of the amount due provided pursuant to §35-8 of this chapter shall be deemed a violation of this chapter and may result in said real property owner or lessee, as the case may be, being served with a summons. SECTION 12. ENFORCEMENT. The Chief of Police shall enforce this chapter for alarm systems which detect intrusions or holdup alarms at a building, structure or facility. The Code Enforcement Officer shall enforce this chapter for alarm systems which detect smoke, fire, water flow or abnormal rate of rise in temperature or emergency medical systems. If both Police Department and Fire Department alarms are activated, the Code Enforcement Officer will enforce this chapter. SECTION 13. PENALTIES FOR OFFENSES. Any person or persons, association or corporation committing an offense against this chapter or any section or provision thereof is guilty of a violation punishable by a fine not exceeding $250 or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 15 days for each such offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment. SECTION 14. EFFECTIVE DATE This chapter shall become effective on the latter of the first day of March 1994 or its proper filing with the Secretary of State of New York in a manner consistent with §27 of the New York Municipal Home Rule Law. SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY. If any part or provision of this Local Law or the application thereof to any person or circumstances be adjusted invalid by any court of competent jurisdiction, such judgment shall be confined in its operation to the part or provision or application directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered and shall not affect or impair the validity of the remainder of this Local Law or the application thereof to other persons or circumstances and the Town Board of the Town of Aurora hereby declares that it would have passed this Local Law or the remainder thereof had such invalid application or invalid provision been apparent. SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE This local law shall take effect immediately upon filing in the office of the New York State Secretary of