§ 21-4. Automatic police or fire dial alarm systems prohibited.
(a)
It shall be unlawful for any person to install, sell, lease or use, or cause or allow to be installed, sold, leased or used, within the corporate limits of the city, any police or fire telephone dial alarm device or system.
(b)
For the purposes of this section, a police or fire telephone dial alarm device or system is defined as being or consisting of any mechanical, electrical or radio-electronic device or system so made or designed as to automatically actuate or call any city police or fire department telephone or radio circuit and use a pre-taped or pre-recorded or programmed verbal message or signal, which operates through overhead or underground wires or by radio frequencies, and which is set or programmed to directly dial, actuate, call or in any other manner make direct contact with any telephone line or radio circuit of the police department or fire department.
(c)
Any person violating any provision of this section shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.
(d)
Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit the installation, sale, leasing or use of any alarm device, so long as such device is not designed or programmed to dial, actuate, call or in any other manner directly contact by telephone or radio circuit the police department or fire department on any telephone line or radio circuit assigned either such department.
(Code 1956, Tit. XXIII, Ch. 4, § 13)
Cross reference— Fire department, § 12-1 et seq.; police, Ch. 23.
(Code 1956, Tit. XXIII, Ch. 4, § 13)