1074.01 Definitions.
1074.02 Permits required.
1074.03 Permit application.
1074.04 Amendment to permit application.
1074.05 Operation without valid permit.
1074.06 Validity of permit.
1074.07 Permit fee.
1074.08 Transferability of permit.
1074.09 Location of permit certificate; inspection.
1074.10 Operation.
1074.11 Repairs.
1074.12 Access or assistance to Police or Fire Division.
1074.13 Automatic dialing devices prohibited; declaration of nuisance.
1074.14 Registration with Police Division and/or Fire Division.
1074.15 Notification of change of licensed manager.
1074.16 Information required for Police Division and/or Fire Division.
1074.17 Central stations and telephone answering services.
1074.18 Intentional activation of alarm systems.
1074.19 Charges for response to false burglar or hold-up alarms.
1074.20 Charges for response to false fire alarms by Fire Division.
1074.21 Permit revocation.
1074.22 Written notice; revocation hearing.
1074.23 Requirements after revocation.
1074.99 Penalty.
CROSS REFERENCES
Department of Public Safety - see ADM. Ch. 242
Police Division - see ADM. Ch. 244
Fire Division - see ADM. Ch. 246
Theft alarms - see TRAF. 438.20
As used in this chapter:
(a) "Alarm site" means the specific property or area of the premises upon or within which an alarm system is or is to be installed.
(b) "Alarm system" means any device used to detect or prevent burglary, theft, fire or any other such emergency situation, which, when activated, causes notification to be made directly or indirectly to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division, or any device designed primarily for the purpose of giving an audible and/or visual signal of an attempted or completed burglary, theft, fire or any other such emergency situation.
"Alarm system" shall not include:
(1) An alarm installed on a motor vehicle; or
(2) An alarm designed so that notification is not given to the Police Division or the Fire Division until after the occupant or an agent of the owner or lessee has checked the alarm site and determined that there is physical evidence at the site showing that the alarm was the result of criminal activity, fire or other emergency, and if a person who is able to grant access to the alarm site remains at such site until the Police Division or the Fire Division arrives, and such person grants access and renders such other assistance as he or she is able to give.
(c) "Alarm system business" means any business operated by a person for profit, which engages in the activity of altering, installing, leasing, maintaining, repairing, replacing, selling, servicing or responding to an alarm system, or which causes any of these activities to take place.
(d) "Automatic dialing device" means any device connected to an alarm system which automatically sends a prerecorded message or coded signal indicating the activation of the alarm system via telephone call to the Avon Police Division and/or Fire Division, the Lorain County 911 Center or the Cuyahoga County 911 Center.
(e) "Burglar alarm" means any device intended to prevent or detect an unauthorized entry or attempted unauthorized entry into the alarm site.
(f) "Central station" means that part of an alarm system business which intercepts signals indicating the activation of an alarm device and relays this information by live voice to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(g) "Chief of Police" means the duly appointed Chief of the Avon Police Division or his or her authorized representative.
(h) "False alarm" means any alarm system activation requiring a response from the Police Division and/or the Fire Division which was not the result of an emergency or threat of emergency of the kind for which the alarm system was designed to give notice.
(i) "Fifteen-minute shut-off" means an automatic device, associated with an alarm system, which automatically causes the audible portion of such alarm system to shut off and discontinue the emission of an audible signal after not more than fifteen minutes of continuous operation.
(j) "Fire alarm" means a functionally related group of devices that, when either manually or automatically activated, will sound audio or visual warning devices on or off the protected premises.
(k) "Fire Chief" means the duly appointed Chief of the Avon Fire Division or his or her authorized representative.
(l) "Hold-up alarm" means any alarm system activated by human actions as a result of a robbery or attempted robbery at the alarm site.
(m) "Local alarm" means any alarm system emitting audible or visual signals in, at or on the alarm site when activated and causing notification to be made either directly or indirectly to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(n) "Permit" means a certificate of authorization issued by the Safety Director or his or her designee to the person in control of the alarm site, which certificate authorizes the operation of an alarm system.
(o) "Permit holder" means the person to whom an alarm system permit is issued.
(p) "Person" means any individual, corporation, partnership or other legal entity.
(q) "Safety Director" means the Director of Public Safety of the City of Avon, Lorain County, Ohio, or the Mayor, when acting in that capacity.
(r) "Telephone answering service" means any business, other than an alarm system business or central station, which intercepts signals indicating the activation of an alarm system and which relays this information by live voice to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
No person shall operate, cause to be operated or permit the operation of an alarm system, unless a current permit has been issued by the Safety Director for such system. The person in control of the property shall obtain a separate permit for each separate alarm system under his or her control. Separate permits shall be required for alarm systems designed to elicit police response and fire response.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
An application for an alarm system permit shall be made in writing by a person having control over the property on which the alarm system is to be installed and operated. Such application shall made be to the Safety Director on a form designated by him or her for that purpose, on which the applicant shall set forth:
(a) The name, address and telephone number of each person in control of the property;
(b) The street address of the property on which the alarm system is to be installed and operated;
(c) Any business name used for the premises on which the alarm system is to be installed and operated;
(d) Whether the alarm system is or is not a local alarm and the type of emergency for which the alarm system is designed;
(e) The name of the person or alarm system business which installed or will install the alarm system;
(f) The names, addresses and telephone numbers of at least two persons, or of an alarm system business, who or which has agreed to:
(1) Receive notification at any time;
(2) Come to the alarm site within thirty minutes after receiving a request therefor from a member of the Police Division and/or the Fire Division, unless an approved Knox Box is installed, in which case the thirty-minute response requirement is waived;
(3) Grant access to the alarm site and deactivate the alarm system if necessary; and
(g) Whether all fees charged such applicant under Section 1074.07 have been paid.
Such permit application shall be subscribed to by the person making application for the permit.
The Safety Director shall issue a permit to the person in control of the property upon submission of an application therefor in accordance with this section and upon payment of the permit fee, unless the Director finds that any statement made in the application was incomplete or false. The Safety Director shall cause a copy of the completed permit application to be transmitted to the Police Division and/or the Fire Division, as appropriate.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
Whenever a person listed on the application for an alarm system permit or listed on an amendment to the application is unable or unwilling to perform the duties set forth in Section 1074.03(f), the permit holder shall file an amendment to the permit application listing a person or an alarm system business who or which is able to and will perform those duties so that at all times the application on file with the Police Division and/or the Fire Division designates at least two persons or an alarm system business who or which is able and willing to perform such duties.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
No person shall operate or permit the operation of an alarm system which was installed on his or her property prior to the effective date of this chapter (Ordinance 124-96, passed November 11, 1996), unless a permit for such alarm system is obtained within ninety days of the effective date of this chapter (Ordinance 124-96, passed November 11, 1996). To obtain such a permit, the person in control of the property shall file an application therefor pursuant to Section 1074.03. However, this section shall not be applicable to an alarm system business or central station which monitors, services or monitors and services an alarm system installed and designed to protect property under the control of a person other than the alarm system business or central station. The person in control of the property which the alarm system is designed to protect shall be subject to prosecution if he or she permits the operation of such system without a valid permit.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
Each residential permit issued in accordance with this chapter shall be valid until such time that the control of the property is transferred from the permit holder. Upon such transfer of control of the property, a new permit shall be obtained.
A business permit shall be valid until such time as control of the property is transferred from the permit holder. Upon transfer of control or ownership of the business, a new permit shall be obtained.
(Ord. 124-96. Passed 11-11-96.)
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