Any person who violates the provisions of N.J.S. 2C:33-3 shall be liable for a civil penalty of not less than $2,000 or actual costs incurred by or resulting from the law enforcement and emergency services response to the false alarm, whichever is higher. Any monies collected pursuant to this section shall be made payable to the municipality or other entity providing the law enforcement or emergency services response to the false alarm. "Emergency services" includes, but is not limited to, paid or volunteer fire fighters, paramedics, members of an ambulance team, rescue squad or mobile intensive care unit.
20 years of living in New Jersey.
On a city rail train, the consequence of pulling a fire alarm for no reason, is a fine of $200
Should be a small fine can be anywhere from 50-500 dollars.
There is no penalty, provided you are signalling an actual fire.
806.101 False alarms of fires.-Whoever, without reasonable cause, by outcry or the ringing of bells, or otherwise, makes or circulates, or causes to be made or circulated, a false alarm of fire, shall for the first conviction be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
You could be charged for NUMEROUS crimes for pulling a fire alarm falsely, depending upon whether anyone gets hurt or killed.
An adult pulling a fire alarm would get the same reward as a juvenile.If there were an actual fire, they could be thanked for their concern that may have saved lives or property.If there was not a valid reason to pull the alarm, they could be punished by the laws that define the violation and its penalties, and possibly sued by anyone injured or killed during the response to the fire alarm.
some people are ignorit and think that pulling the fire alarm is a joke (it is not a joke fire men and police are always at the scene of a fire alarm even if it is falsely pulled,police and fire men take it very serious)
Okay, i just got busted for this at my school so i have the first hand knowledge. Each activation costs about 600 dollars and is your highest possible fine. I'm only sixteen and my final sentence was 20 hours community service, supposed to be 6 months random drug testing but my lawyer had that switched to a mental health evaluation which my insurance will cover. and a three page paper written on the dangers of pulling a false fire alarm which im in the middle of working on... that's how i found your question
A simple fire alarm has a sensor or switch that reacts to fire or smoke and trips a device that makes noise. For instance, you could use a string pulling on a switch that is held open by the string until the string catches fire, closing the switch and ringing a bell.
Fire Alarm
The fire alarm rang