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rise in temperature, fire, water flow, medical emergency or an entry into or exit from a building, structure or facility or a holdup alarm and, by reason thereof, emits an audible response intended to alert persons outside of the premises and/or transmit a signal or message to an emergency agency, either directly or through a private or commercial relay facility. AUTOMATIC DIALER A device that automatically dials and relays a prerecorded message to an emergency agency or to a commercial relay facility. | | EMERGENCY AGENCY | The Police Department or Fire Department, Central Fire Alarm Office, Emergency Medical Services (EMS), or other emergency dispatch center. FALSE ALARM An activation of an alarm system where either an emergency situation does not exist or the activator does not have a reasonable basis to believe that an emergency situation does exist. SECTION 4. EXISTING ALARM SYSTEMS. The owners and lessees of premises having existing alarm system shall comply with §35-5 and §35-6 of this chapter within 90 days of the effective date described in §35-14. SECTION 5. AUTOMATIC CUTOFF SYSTEM. A. No person shall install or maintain an external alarm system which does not contain an operational automatic cutoff system which turns off the external audible alarm once activated after a period not to exceed 10 minutes. B. An automatic dialer connected directly to an emergency agency shall automatically disconnect and/or terminate its message after the message has been transmitted a maximum of two times. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the total transmission time of all messages shall not exceed five minutes. SECTION 6. DIRECT COMMUNICATION TO EMERGENCY AGENCY. There shall be no automatic alarm system with direct communication to any type of an emergency agency without prior written authorization from the emergency agency where the alarm terminates. SECTION 7. CHARGES FOR FALSE ALARMS.