(A) The alarm user or alarm business responsible for a false alarm or whose alarm system sends such alarm shall pay a penalty for each false alarm according to the following schedule:
(1) First false alarm during year: No penalty;
(2) Second false alarm during year: Meeting with the Fire or Police Chief or his or her representative;
(3) Third false alarm during year: Base assessment;
(4) Fourth false alarm during year: Base assessment times 3;
(5) Fifth and subsequent false alarms during year: Base assessment times 4.
(B) The base assessment shall be set by ordinance of the City Council. The Chief of Police or Fire Chief shall have authority to reduce such penalty amounts, if in his or her reasonable discretion such reduction is in the public interest and is justified under the circumstances.
(`78 Code, § 8.30.170.) (Ord. 2398 § 3, 1999; Ord. 1793 § 1 (part), 1986.)