(A) The Alarm Administrator shall notify the Police Department of each alarm user whose alarm registration qualifies for suspension under this section. The Alarm Administrator may suspend an alarm registration if it is determined that:
(1) There is a false statement of a material fact in the registration application; or
(2) The alarm user has had four or more false alarms within the one-year registration period, except that the Alarm Administrator may waive a suspension of a registration upon receipt of documented work orders showing reasonable attempts to repair the alarm system prior to the notice of suspension.
(3) The alarm user fails or refuses to pay an alarm registration or alarm registration renewal fee, false alarm fine, late charge, or any other fee, fine, or charge assessed under this section.
(B) It is a violation of this section for a person to operate an alarm system during the period in which the alarm registration is suspended. It is a violation of this chapter for a monitoring company to make an alarm dispatch request to an alarm site after the monitoring company’s alarm response manager (ARM) has been notified by electronic mail by the Alarm Administrator that the registration for that alarm site has been suspended. A grace period of five business days after the ARM’s notification shall be granted the monitoring company to comply. The alarm monitoring company shall be assessed a fine in an amount established by resolution of the City Council for requesting an alarm dispatch request on a suspended alarm site.
(C) False alarm fines under suspension status. In addition to the fines set forth in § 4-14.11(A), a supplemental fine is hereby imposed upon any person operating a suspended alarm system. The amount of said fines shall be established by resolution of the City Council.
(D) It shall be the responsibility of the alarm user to notify their respective alarm monitoring company of their suspension status. An alarm user shall be held financially accountable for all false alarm fines incurred except as noted in § 4-14.11(F).
(E) Unless there is a separate indication that there is a crime in progress, the Police Department may or may not dispatch an officer to an alarm site for which an alarm registration is suspended.
(Ord. 2161-C-S, passed 2-26-19)