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Chapter 46. Alarm Systems § 46-1. Purpose. The purpose of this chapter is to protect and promote the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the Town of West Seneca by reducing the number of avoidable alarms of fire, intrusion, holdup or other emergencies which contribute to increased costs, ineffective utilization of police and fire emergency agencies, require emergency responses which are susceptible to high accident rates, interfere with genuine emergencies (responses) and produce unnecessary alarm noise to the surrounding community. § 46-2. Definitions. For the purpose of this chapter, the following words and phases shall have the meanings respectfully ascribed to them by this section: ALARM SYSTEM A device or an assembly of equipment which is designated to detect smoke, abnormal rise in temperature, fire, medical emergency or an entry into or exit from a building, structure or facility 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 answering point. AUTOMATIC DIALER A device that automatically dials and relays a prerecorded message to an emergency agency. EMERGENCY AGENCY The Police Department or Fire District, central fire dispatch or other emergency dispatch center. § 46-3. Compliance required. The owners and lessees of premises having alarm systems shall comply with all provisions of this chapter on or before the first day of August 1993. § 46-4. Automatic cutoff system required. A. No person shall install or maintain an external audible alarm device which does not contain an operational automatic cutoff system which turns off the external audible alarm after a period not to exceed ten (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 (2) times. Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the total transmission time of all messages shall not exceed five (5) minutes. § 46-5. Connection to enhanced 911 or 911 emergency service restricted. Page 13 of 241