1977-071ORDINANCE NO . 77- 71 `
AN ORDINANCE REGULATING ALARM SYSTEMS
BE IT- ORDAINED BY THE PRESIDENT AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, LAKE AND COOK COUNTIES, ILLINOIS:
Section 1. - Notification
A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to have or maintain on any premises an audible type burglary and/
or robbery or trespass alarm unless the telephone numbers at which
the person or persons authorized to enter such premises and turn
off such alarm can be reached at all times have been submitted and
filed with the Buffalo Grove Police Department.
B. It is unlawful for any such person to fail to appear and
turn off or reset any such alarm within two hours after being: no-
tified by the police to do so.
Section 2. - Activation of Alarm
It is unlawful for any person to knowingly activate any rob -
bery or burglary alarm for the purpose of summoning police except
in the event of an actual or attempted burglary, robbery or tres-
pass, or for any person to notify the police of an activated alarm,
and having knowledge that such activation was apparently caused by
an electrical oroother malfunction of the alarm system, to fail at
the same time to notify the police of such apparent malfunction.
Section 3. - Automatic Systems
No person, firm or corporation shall use or cause or permit
to be used, or engage in the business of providing any telephone
device or telephone attachment that automatically selects a public
trunkline of the Police or Fire Department of the Village andtthen
reproduces any pre - recorded message to report any robbery, burglary.
fire or other emergency unless previously approved by the Village.
Section 4. - Definition of False Alarms
A. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term "false alarm"
shall mean the activation of a burglary and /or robbery and /or trespass
alarm by other than a forced entry or attempted forced entry to the
premises and at a time when no burglary, robbery or trespass is being-
committed or attempted on the premises.
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Section 5. - Response to False Alarm
For a police response to any false alarm the Village of
Buffalo Crove shall charge and collect from the person having or
maintaining such burglary and /or robbery or trespass alarm on pre-
raises owned or occupied by him, fees as follows:
A. For a response to premises at which no other false a-
farm has occurred within the preceding six months period, herein-
after referred to as a "first response. ", no fee shall be charged, .
but the%-person having or maintaining such burglary and /or robbery
or trespass alarm shall, within three working days after notice to
do so, make a written report to the Chief of Police on forms pre-
scribed by him setting forth the cause of such false alarm, the
corrective action-taken, whether such alarm has been.inspected by
an authorized serviceman,, and such other information as the Chief
of Police may reasonably require to determine the cause of such
false alarm and corrective action necessary.
B. For a second response to premises within six months after
a first response, no fee shall be charged, but a written report shall
be required as for a first response and the Chief of Police shall be
authorized to inspect or cause to be inspected the alarm system at
such premises, prescribe necessary corrective action, and shall give
notice to the person having or maintaining such alarm system.of the
conditions and requirements of this section.
C. For a third response to premises within six months after
such a second response, and for all succeeding responses within six
months of the last response, a fee of twenty -five dollars ($25.00)
shall be charged.
Section b. Penalties
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of any violation
of the provisions of the ordinance shall be fined not less than
twenty -five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five.hundred dollars
($500.00) for each offense and each day that such violation con-
tinues shall be a separate offense.
Section 7. Enactort
This Ordinance shall be in effect from and after its passage
approval and publication according to law.
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AYES; KoYotar, Stone, NAYES: D - Nona /QBgEl�C� l - Rech
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VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE
ORDINANCE NO. %%- 7
ADOPTED BY THE PRESIDENT
AND BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE VILLAGE
OF BUFFALO GROVE
THIS j� -�, DAY OF 197
Published in pamphlet form by authority
of the President and Board of Trustees of
the Village of Buffalo Grove, Cook and Lake
Counties, Illinois, this ?O day of
1977.
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OP.DINAICE 110. 77- 71
AN ORDIRVICE REGULATING ALA74 SYSTEMS
BE IT ORDAITfiD BY THE PRESIDENT AND THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF
THE VILLAGE OF BUFFALO GROVE, LAKE. AND COOK COUMES, ILLINOIS:
Section 1. Notification
A. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation
to have or maintain on any premises an audible type burglary and /
or robbery or trespass alarm unless the telephone numbers at which
the person or persons authorized to enter such premises and turn
off`such alarm can be reached at all times have been submitted and
filed with the Buffalo Grove Police Department.
B. It is unlawful for any such person to fail to appear and
turn off or reset any such alarm within two hours after being no-
tified by the police to do so.
Section 2. - Activation of Alarm
It is unlawful for any person to knowingly activate any rob-
bery or burglary alarm for the purpose of summoning police except
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in the event of an actual or 'attempted burglary, robbery or tres-
pass, or for any person to notify the police of an activated alarm,
and having knowledge that such activation was apparently caused by
an electrical oroother malfunction of the alarm system, to fail at
the same time to notify the police of such apparent malfunction.
Section 3. - Automatic__-ay_stems
No person, firm or corporation shall use or cause or permit
to be used, or engage in the business of providing any telephone
device or telephone >attachment that automatically selects a public
trunkline of the Police or Fire Department of the Village andtthen
# reproduces any pre- recorded message to ,report any robbery, burglary.
fire or other emergency unless previously approved by the Village.
Section 4. - Definition-of-False-Alarms
A. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the term "false alarm"
shall mean the activation of a burglary and /or robbery and /or trespass
alarm by other than a forced entry or attempted forced entry to the
premises and at a time when no burglary, robbery or trespass is being
committed or attempted on the premises.
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Section 5. - Resoonse to False Alarm
For a police response to any false alarm the Village of
Buffalo Crove shall charge and collect from the person having or -
maintaining such burglary and /or robbery or trespass alarm on pre-
mises owned or occupied by him, fees as follows:
A. For a' response to premises at which no other false a-
larm has occurred within the preceding six months period, herein -
after referred to as a "first response. ", no fee shall be charged,
but the person having or maintaining such burglary and /or robbery
or trespass alarm shall, within three working days after notice to
do so, make a written report to the Chief of Police on forms pre -
scribed by him setting forth the cause of such false alarm, the
corrective action.taken, whether such alarm has been inspected by
an authorized serviceman, and such other information as the Chief
of Police may reasonably require to determine the cause of such
false alarm and corrective action necessary.
B. For a second response to premises within six months after
a -first response, no fee shall be charged, but a written report shall
be required as for a first response and the Chief of Police shall be
authorized to inspect or cause to be inspected the alarm system at
such premises, prescribe necessary corrective action,. and shall give
notice to the person having or maintaining such alarm system of the
conditions and requirements of this section.
C. For a third response to premises within six months after
such a second response, and for all succeeding responses within six
months of the last response, a fee of twenty -five dollars ($25.00)
shall be charged.
Section 6. Penalties
Any person, firm or corporation convicted of any violation
of the provisions of the ordinance shall be fined not less than
twenty -five dollars ($25.00) nor more than five hundred dollars
($500.00) for each offense and each day that such violation con-
tinues shall be a separate offense.
Section 7. Enactor nt
This Ordinance shall be in effect from and after its passage,
approval and publication according to law.
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5 - Bogart, Marienthal,
AYES: Keister, Stone, NAMES: 0 -None ABSENT 1 - Rech
PASSED: December 19 ,1977 /
APPROVED: December 19, '1977
PUBLISHED:— . &� -' 02-O ,19/
ATTEST_: ,
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