Sections
8.30.010 Purpose and title.
8.30.020 Definitions.
8.30.030 Exceptions.
8.30.040 Alarm business registration - Required.
8.30.050 Alarm business registration - Application.
8.30.060 Alarm business - Change of address.
8.30.070 Central monitoring system - Filing.
8.30.080 Alarm agent registration - Required.
8.30.090 Alarm agent registration - Filing period.
8.30.100 Alarm agent’s possession of registration card.
8.30.110 Alarm user’s permit - Required.
8.30.120 Alarm user’s permit - Application.
8.30.125 Alarm user’s permit - Annual fee required.
8.30.130 Alarm system - Specifications.
8.30.140 Alarm system - Installation and maintenance.
8.30.150 False alarms - Prohibited.
8.30.160 False alarms - Investigation; notice; report.
8.30.170 False alarms - Penalties.
8.30.180 Automatic dialing alarm system prohibited.
8.30.190 Excessive false alarms as public nuisance.
8.30.200 Excessive false alarms - Suspension of permit.
8.30.210 Excessive false alarms - Revocation of permit.
8.30.220 Appeals.
8.30.230 Violations - Penalties.
8.30.240 Severability.
8.30.245 Emergency personnel right of entry
8.30.250 Operative date.
(A) The purpose of this chapter is to encourage alarm users and alarm businesses to maintain the operational reliability and proper use of alarm systems in order to reduce or eliminate unnecessary responses by city personnel and equipment by regulating preventable false alarms.
(B) Nothing herein should be construed to limit or discourage the legitimate use of fire, burglar or other alarms. The use is in the public interest and promotes public health and safety. Furthermore, nothing herein shall prohibit the sounding of any signal necessary for the conduct of an authorized fire drill.
(C) This chapter is the Corona False Alarm Ordinance.
(`78 Code, § 8.30.010.) (Ord. 2398 § 1, 1999; Ord. 1793 § 1 (part), 1986)
For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, the following words and phrases as used in this chapter are defined as follows.
(A) "Alarm agent" means the owner or employee of an alarm business.
(B) "Alarm business" means any person, partnership, corporation or other entity that sells, leases, maintains, installs, services, repairs, replaces, alters, removes, moves or monitors a police alarm system in or on any building, place or premises within the city. A person, partnership, corporation or other entity engaged solely in the business of selling police alarm systems is not an "alarm business."
(C) "Alarm signal" means anything perceptible which could reasonably be interpreted as a communication of the existence of the unauthorized entry on a premises, the commission of an unlawful act or the occurrence of a fire or other emergency to which the Police or Fire Department is reasonably expected to respond.
(D) “Alarm user" means any person whose business, place or premises has a police or fire alarm system, whether or not monitored by a central monitoring system.
(E) "Central monitoring system" means a system that automatically receives, records, maintains and supervises alarm signals at a central location by observers or operators who are required, upon receipt of an alarm signal, to notify the Police or Fire Department.
(F) "Chief” means the Fire Chief or the Chief of Police, whichever is appropriate.
(G) "False alarm" means an alarm signal eliciting an emergency response from the Police or Fire Department when a situation requiring such response does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent natural conditions or other extraordinary circumstances that would activate an alarm system in reasonably good working condition.
(H) "Fire alarm system" means any device designed to detect and to signal the occurrence of a fire or other emergency to which the Fire Department is reasonably expected to respond.
(I) "Fire Department," "fire service personnel" or "Fire Chief” means the Fire Chief of the city and designated personnel of the City Fire Department.
(J) "Non-priority response" means a response by the police which does not supersede any other response and which is predicated upon the availability of personnel.
(K) "Person" means any individual, partnership, corporation or other entity.
(L) "The Police" or "Chief of Police" means the Chief of Police of the city, his or her officers and designated employees.
(M) “Police alarm system" means any device designed to detect and to signal the unauthorized entry on a premises, the commission of an unlawful act or the occurrence of any other emergency to which the police are reasonably expected to respond.
(`78 Code, § 8.30.020.) (Ord. 1793 § 1 (part), 1986.)
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