Chapter 5.08
AUTOMATIC DIALING SYSTEMS
Sections:
5.08.030 Automatic dialing device—Interconnecting to primary trunk lines.
5.08.040 Automatic dialing device—Intermediary services.
5.08.050 Automatic dialing device—Operating instructions—Service.
5.08.010 Purpose.
The purpose of this Chapter is to provide minimum standards and regulations applicable to burglar, holdup or fire alarm systems utilizing automatic dialing service.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410
History: Ord. 894 §1, 1977.
5.08.020 Definitions.
For the purposes of this Chapter, the following terms are defined:
(1) “Alarm business” means any business operated by a person for a profit which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing, or responding to a burglar or holdup alarm system, or which causes any of these activities to take place.
(2) “Alarm system” means an assembly of equipment and devices, or a single device such as a solid state unit which plugs directly into a 110 volt AC line, arranged to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which police are expected to respond. In this Chapter, “alarm system” includes “automatic manual holdup alarm systems” and alarm systems which monitor temperature, humidity or any other conditions not directly related to the detection of an unauthorized intrusion into a premises or an attempted robbery at a premises.
(3) “Answering service” refers to a telephone answering service providing among its services the service of receiving on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from alarm systems, and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice to the communication center of the police department.
(4) “Automatic dialing device” refers to an alarm system which automatically sends over regular telephone lines, by direct connection or otherwise, a prerecorded voice message or coded signal indicating the existence of the emergency situation that the alarm system is designated to detect.
(5) “Central station” means an office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits, and where guards are maintained continuously to investigate signals.
(6) “Modified central station” means an office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected, where operators supervise the circuits. Such modified central station is not listed by Underwriters Laboratories.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410
History: Ord. 894 §2, 1977.
5.08.030 Automatic dialing device—Interconnecting to primary trunk lines.
(1) No automatic dialing device shall be interconnected to a primary telephone trunk line of the city after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter except any line dedicated by the city for the express purpose of receiving such transmissions.
(2) Within ninety days after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter, all automatic dialing devices interconnected to a primary telephone trunk line of the city shall be disconnected therefrom. The owner or lessee of such device shall be responsible for having the device disconnected within the ninety (90) day time period.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410
History: Ord. 894 §3, 1977.
5.08.040 Automatic dialing device—Intermediary services.
(1) Persons owning or leasing an automatic dialing device may have the device interconnected to a telephone line transmitting directly to:
(a) Telephone line within police department communications center dedicated by the city for the receipt of such transmissions;
(b) A central station;
(c) A modified central station; or
(d) A licensed answering service.
(2) Automatic dialing devices may also be interconnected to one or more telephone numbers available to the owner or lessee of the devices, or their designated representatives, at another location.
(3) All businesses and persons utilizing a dedicated telephone line within the police department communication center must agree in writing prior to such utilization that in the event of repeated malfunctions of their systems or abuse of this municipal service, they shall disconnect their device from the dedicated line.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410
History: Ord. 894 §4, 1977.
5.08.050 Automatic dialing device—Operating instructions—Service.
(1) Every alarm business selling or leasing to any person an automatic dialing device which is installed on such person’s premises in the city after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter shall furnish that person with instructions that provide adequate information to enable persons using such device to operate it properly and, if the device is to be serviced or maintained by another alarm business, shall furnish such other alarm business with a manual or other information necessary to enable it to serve or properly maintain such device.
(2) If the Police Chief reasonably finds such information to be incomplete or unclear, or inadequate to explain how the device operates and is constructed, he may require the alarm business to revise the information to meet his approval, and then to distribute the revised information to persons who have had such devices installed as well as to persons subsequently having such devices installed.
(3) Every alarm business selling or leasing to any person an automatic dialing device which is installed on such person’s premises in the city after the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Chapter shall provide or make available at all times service to repair such device should it malfunction, and shall furnish to the person buying or leasing such device written information concerning how service may be obtained at any time, including the telephone number to call for service.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410
History: Ord. 894 §5, 1977.
5.08.060 Violation—Penalty.
A violation of any provision of Chapter 5.08 shall be a Class “D” Infraction as specified in GMC 1.08.010 through 1.08.100. Each and every day that this Chapter is violated shall constitute a separate offense.
Statutory Reference: ORS 221.410