Up to $500 or 1 year in jail I believe. ; This is in MA. ; I haven't seen one in the wild for almost two decades - Washington DC used to have them but they were retired about 20 years ago. ; And retired by "didn't repair them".
there are still some of these alive and well within the village limits of greenport, still doing what they have done for years, the bell goes off in the municipal electric plant, manned 24/7, the operating engineer goes over and reads the punchout on the ticker, that tells him how many long and short blasts to set on the air horn, which in turn tells the responding firemen what box has been dropped, as it's termed, of course he still calls it in to county, so the pagers still go off, although nowadays more of us get it as a cell phone text than even are paged, a free service recently extended out by all the providers to all ranks, used to just be officers and emt's
I didn't know anyone still used those either. ; Nice to see some cities still believe in maintaining them. ;
