(a) All equipment used in installations for which a permit is required shall meet the applicable standards of the Underwriters' Laboratories and/or other recognized industry standard. Applicant may be required to submit evidence of the reliability and suitability of the equipment to be installed.
(b) The sensory mechanism used in connection with such devices must be adjusted to suppress false indications of intrusion, so that the devices will not be actuated by impulses due to transient pressure change in water pipes, short flashes of light, wind noises such as the rattling or vibrating of doors or windows, vehicular noise adjacent to the installation or other forces unrelated to genuine alarms.
(c) All components comprising such a device must be maintained by the owner or lessee in good repair to assure reliability of operation.
(d) Each alarm equipment supplier that sells or leases to a person an automatic protection device which is installed on such person's premises in the City shall furnish that person with instructions as to the way the device operates, along with maintenance instructions.
(e) Each alarm equipment supplier shall also furnish the Police Chief with a copy of the instructions as to the way the device operates. If the Police Chief finds such to be incomplete, unclear or otherwise inadequate, he may require the alarm equipment supplier to have the same revised, to meet his approval and then promptly distributed to persons for whom installations of such devices are made.
(f) The Police Chief shall have the authority, at reasonable times and upon oral notice, to enter upon any premises within the City, to inspect the installation and operation of an automatic protection device or signaling device, the purpose of which is to report an emergency to the police station.
(g) All equipment, the use or installation of which is subject to this chapter, shall be maintained in good operating condition. The Police Chief may require that repairs be made whenever he has determined that such are necessary to assure proper operation.
(Ord. 99-73. Passed 9-4-73.)