525.17 ALARM SYSTEMS.

   (a)    Certain Systems Prohibited.

      (1)    No person shall install, erect, insert, attach, build, create or otherwise use any alarm system which by electronic, radio, automatic or mechanical means on the occurrence of a given event, circumstance or condition transmits a signal or voice communication for reception by either the City Fire Division or Police Division on their established telephone lines or radio bands.

      (2)    No person shall install or maintain a local alarm which sounds a horn, bell, buzzer or other type of alarm audible outside the premises, if such alarm does not become silent automatically within one-half hour after the device first sounds, or if the alarm produces an intensity of sound in excess of sixty-five decibels at 100 feet from the building being served.

         (Ord. 93-152. Passed 8-17-93.)

   (b)    Permit for Alarm Systems.

      (1)    No person shall install any alarm system in any building, residence, warehouse, show room, factory or commercial building or at any location whatsoever within the City causing a signal or voice communication to be transmitted to the existing telephone lines or radio receiving bands of the Fire Division or Police Division without first submitting a written application to the Director of Public Safety, receiving the Director's approval of the application and obtaining a permit for such installation. Any alarm system causing transmission to the Police or Fire Division shall conform to existing receiving panels.

      (2)    Conditions of the approval of such application are as follows:

         A.    The applicant shall install at his own expense, at a location determined by either the Police or the Fire Division, either a telephone, a radio or such other instrument as may be otherwise required to receive the signal or voice communication message transmitted by the alarm unit. All installation, operating maintenance and continuing costs of the receiving instrument must be borne by the applicant, and proof of the current payment of all charges thereon must be presented to the Director of Public Safety by the fifth day of each and every month that such unit remains installed.

            (Ord. 71-77. Passed 9-7-71.)

         B.    The applicant shall pay to the City a fee of fifteen dollars ($15.00) per month in advance commencing concurrently with the approval of the application and the issuance of an installation permit. (Ord. 79-19. Passed 2-20-79.)

   (c)    Removal. The receiving unit shall be permitted to remain for only so long as it does not interfere with the normal daily operation of the Police and Fire Divisions. Upon the determination by the Director of Public Safety that such alarm system is not an aid to preventing crime, apprehending criminals or fighting fires or that it is disrupting or interfering with the daily operation of the Police or Fire Divisions, the Director is authorized to order the immediate disconnection, termination and removal of such unit. No person shall fail to comply with such order. (Ord. 71-48. Passed 6-1-71.)

   (d)    Whoever violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.