(1) A hearing officer shall be appointed by the chief of police to hear appeals from alarm users on the issue of whether the alarm system in question activated a false alarm, as determined by a police officer at the scene of such activated alarm.
(2) Upon receipt of any false alarm report from the city, the alarm user shall have ten days to request, in writing, a hearing before the said hearing officer.
(3) At the hearing, which must be scheduled and concluded within fifteen days from the date the request for same is received, the alarm user shall have the right to present evidence and testimony.
(4) The hearing officer shall make written findings available to the alarm user and the chief of police within ten days from the date the hearing is concluded.
(5) A decision by the chief of police, or his designee, to uphold or to cancel the false alarm report which is the subject of the herein section must be made within ten days from the receipt of the above findings by the chief of police.
(6) Until all of the steps set forth in this section have been completed, the false alarm in question will be considered to have been genuine and will not be considered the basis for the prima facie presumption that the involved alarm system is malfunctioning, except as to any proceedings that may be instituted in the city court for a violation of this chapter.
(7) The imposition of fees, actions and procedures for enforcement and regulation herein are declared to be cumulative and in addition to such court procedures as may be herein created or previously existing. Nothing in this section or in any other provisions of this chapter shall alter, control or modify the jurisdiction and procedure of the city court in those cases where one is charged with any act or omission which this chapter prohibits, declares to be unlawful, describes as a misdemeanor or is designated as a violation of this chapter.
(1970 Code, § 13-518)