(a) When the number of false alarms received by the Police Department or Fire Department from any one alarm system (either directly via transmission of an alarm signal by such installation to the Police Department or Fire Department alarm panel or indirectly as a result of a notification from a monitoring company) exceeds three (3) during any twelve-month calendar year, then the owner of the alarm system shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each additional false alarm up to and including the sixth (6) false alarm received during such twelve- month period, and fifty dollars ($50.00) for the seventh (7) and eighth (8) alarm during such twelve-month period and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each additional false alarm after the eighth (8th) false alarm received during such twelve-month period.
(b) Division (a) of this section shall not apply to false alarms received during the test period of a system.
(c) As used in this section, a “false alarm” shall mean any alarm that is received by the Police Department or Fire Department that is not the result of an actual emergency incident for which the alarm was intended.
(d) As used in this section, the “test period” for an alarm system shall mean the period commencing on the date such system is first installed or substantially modified and ending thirty (30) days thereafter.
(Ord. 05-19. Passed 2-14-05.)