(a) No person shall allow more than two chargeable false alarms to be transmitted during the immediately preceding one-year period. An alarm will be classified as false if the responding police or fire personnel see no evidence of fire, smoke, robbery, burglary, vandalism, unauthorized intrusion or medical emergency. If the person proves that the alarm was caused by an event not reasonably foreseeable and which could not have been prevented by the proper adjustment or presetting of the sensor threshold, the alarm will be designated nonchargeable false alarm. Violation of this subsection is a minor misdemeanor.
(b) After three officially chargeable false alarms in any twelve-month period, the appropriate authority shall review the alarm system. The Chief of Police or Fire Chief may recommend the disconnection of any alarm system upon forwarding a recommendation to the appropriate authority pending his review.
No person shall fail to disconnect his alarm system upon order of the appropriate authority as set forth herein. Violation of this subsection is a minor misdemeanor.
(c) No person shall knowingly allow his alarm system to be used by any person to create a false alarm as defined in Section 559.01. Violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(d) Any person using or causing to be used any automatic dialing device specified in Section 559.02 is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (Ord. 1984-24. Passed 12-4-84.)
CODIFIED ORDINANCES OF CANFIELD