§ 81-1. Applicability.

This chapter is intended to regulate the activities and responsibilities of those persons who purchase, rent or use and those persons who own or conduct the business of selling, renting, maintaining or monitoring alarm systems, devices or services. It is further intended to encourage the improvement in reliability of these systems, devices and services and to ensure that Police Department and Fire Department personnel will not be unduly diverted from responding to actual emergencies as a result of responding to false alarms. This chapter specifically encompasses burglar alarms, robbery alarms, fire alarms and holdup alarms both audible and inaudible (silent). The provisions of this chapter, except § 81-17, shall not apply to alarm systems which are owned or maintained by the City of New Rochelle and installed on premises in which the City has a property interest.