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Knox-Box
Fire Department Emergency Access
to Your Business
The Yorktown Heights Fire Department encourages the use of a Knox-Box for our local homeowners and businesses. This system provides the quickest and most secure method of access to your property or building during an emergency.
IT's THE LAW
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Ten Reasons to Install a Knox-Box
- Eliminate needless, costly forced entry damage that may not be covered by your insurance deductible.
- Assure immediate building entry by firefighters without delay or waiting for building keys.
- Protect inventory, equipment and supplies from unnecessary water damage caused by delayed sprinkler shut-off.
- Satisfy local fire codes and emergency access ordinances.
- Save time and aggravation by not having to drive to your building at 2:00 am for a false alarm.
- Feel secure about emergency coverage when your building is left unattended. The fire department holds the only key to the KNOX-BOX.
- Maintain building security after a fire alarm investigation by simply re-locking the undamaged door.
- Protect your property from thousands of dollars in damage with this one-time, low-cost investment.
- Depend on the highest lock box security available with attack resistant, UL tested reliability.
- Over the last 25 years, KNOX-BOX has been the chosen solution in 6,000 communities nationwide - communities just like yours!
Town of Yorktown, NY
Chapter 130: BUILDING CONSTRUCTION AND FIRE PREVENTION
ARTICLE IV Key Lock Box [Added 8-6-1996 by L.L. No. 17-1996]
§ 130-17. Purpose; finding; authorization.
Experience shows that when fire occurs in buildings, fire-fighting personnel are faced with entry into the structure, locating, confining and controlling the fire and extinguishment. Entry into the structure, in some cases, must be made by force, which is time-consuming and demands extra energy to be exerted by fire-fighting personnel. In order to expedite entry into the structure and to aid the Fire Department in their task of extinguishment, the requirements set forth below shall be considered authorized by the Town Board of the Town of Yorktown in accordance with the alarm users permit section.
§ 130-18. Key lock box requirements.
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All commercial occupancies served by an internal automatic fire alarm or suppression system shall have a rapid entry key lock box installed. |
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The key lock box shall be located at or near the recognized public entrance. The key lock box shall be located at a height of not less than eight feet and not more than 12 feet above final grade. |
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No steps, displays, signs or other fixtures or structural protrusions shall be located under the key lock box which would allow intruders unimpeded access to the box. |
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The key lock box shall be connected to the structure's alarm system. The telephone connection of the key lock box shall be wired so as to provide a supervisory alarm signal to the central station in the event that the key lock box is opened or removed from the wall. |
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The key lock box shall contain the keys for the following, and the keys shall be labeled so as to be easily identified in the field:
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The main entrance door. Mixed occupancies and strip shopping center keys shall be provided only for occupancies where system control valves or a fire alarm system panel exists. |
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The alarm room (if one exists). |
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Mechanical rooms and sprinkler control rooms. |
| (4) |
The fire alarm control panel. |
| (5) |
Electrical rooms. |
| (6) |
Resetting of pull stations or other fire-protection devices. |
| (7) |
Elevators. |
| (8) |
Other rooms as specified during the plan review process or as required during a fire inspection. |
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There shall be minimum requirements for the key lock box as outlined below.
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The lock shall be a MEDICO Biaxial Level 7 or equivalent. |
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Key vaults shall have the ability to be master keyed. |
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Locks shall be designed for high resistance to drilling, picking, punching or pulling. |
| (4) |
Lock codes and key sections shall be unconditionally restricted by the manufacturer for use by Yorktown and Lake Mohegan Fire Departments. |
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Locks shall be listed under Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., (UL) No. 437, the standard for safety key locks. |
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Rapid-entry systems shall offer key vaults under UL No. 1610, the standard for central station alarm units for use with UL-listed alarm systems. |
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Rapid-entry systems shall offer key vaults under UL No. 1037, the standard for antitheft alarms and devices. |
| (8) |
Official Underwriters Laboratories, Inc., listing cards shall be supplied upon request. |
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A fully inserted key shall withstand a minimum of 50 inch-pounds of torque. |
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Key vaults shall have weatherproof gasket seals of neoprene material or better around openings. |
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Key vaults shall have covered lock openings constructed of heavy-gauge steel designed to resist vandalism. |
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Key vaults shall have a minimum wall thickness of 1/4 inch and a door thickness of 1/2 inch plate steel. |
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Cabinet-style vaults for document storage shall have a minimum wall and door thickness of 1/8 inch plate steel with an additional drill-resistant hard plate to protect the lock mechanism. |
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Cabinet-style vaults for document storage shall be available with two separate locks. The key to either lock shall open the vault. |
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The Town of Yorktown Building Inspector shall be in complete control of rapid-entry system authorization and operation. |
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The rapid-entry system shall utilize approved signature(s) from the Town of Yorktown Building Inspector and the Chief of the Fire Department whose Fire Department covers the structure. There must be two signatures on the order from to the manufacturer, one from Code Enforcement and the other from the Fire Department. In the event that the Fire Chief is not able to sign the order form, he may designate up to two alternates for the Fire Department's approval of the order form. |
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The manufacturer at its factory shall maintain UL-listed fireproof cabinets to protect the original records of the order forms and related records. |
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The factory records shall include installation locations, receiving party signature, Fire Department and Building Inspector authorized signatures and the original order form. |
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Order records shall be available upon request for inspection by the Town of Yorktown Building Inspector or the Yorktown Heights and Lake Mohegan Fire Departments. |
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Neither the Town of Yorktown Building Inspector, nor the Yorktown Heights and Lake Mohegan Fire Departments shall be required to purchase or sell rapid-entry system products. |
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The Yorktown Heights and Lake Mohegan Fire Departments shall each have separate master keys for their Departments so that each master key will be unique to each Department. The Town of Yorktown Building Inspector shall have a set of master keys for each Fire Department so they can place keys and/or documents in the rapid-entry system boxes. |
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§ 130-19. Emergency response repository container unit (lock box) general requirements.
The owner or operator of any facility which is required to prepare or have available a material safety data sheet or an emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form under Subtitle B, Sections 311 and 312 of Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA Title III), shall provide a repository container (lock box) at the facility site as set forth below.
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The information contained in the repository (lock box) shall include the following information for emergency response personnel:
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A current list of the key facility personnel knowledgeable about safety procedures of the materials on site, complete with the telephone numbers for each person. |
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A current emergency and hazardous chemical inventory form and a binder containing the material safety data sheets (MSDS) or, in the event that the volume of MSDS sheets is too great to keep practically in the repository container, the location of the on-site MSDS sheets, and the MSDS sheets shall be readily available for use by emergency response personnel. |
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A facility site plan, which shall include the following:
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The location of storage and use of hazardous materials on site. |
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The location of on-site emergency fire-fighting and spill cleanup equipment. |
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A diagram of the complete sewer system and water system showing fire hydrant and water main locations and sizes. |
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Any building floor plan deemed necessary by the Code Enforcement and Fire Department officials. |
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All keying shall be in accordance with the above requirements of the minimum standards for key lock boxes. |
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