(A) A
FALSE ALARM is an emergency alarm or an alarm activated by inadvertence, negligence or unintentional acts to which the Village Police Department is requested or required to respond, including malfunction of the emergency alarm system. The definition excludes false alarms caused by: malfunctions within the system and equipment located/installed at the Police Department; testing or repairing of the normal power supply source for emergency alarms; acts of God, such as earthquake, flood, windstorm, thunder or lightning; an attempted illegal entry where there is visible evidence; or the user acting under a sincere belief that there is a need to call for police assistance. If a doubt exists to the cause of the false alarm, the Chief of Police shall resolve it in the favor of the alarm user. NOTE: Multiple alarms received by the Police Department before the system can be deactivated within a reasonable period of time shall be considered as a single alarm.
(B) Any person or entity that notifies the Village Police Department that it is testing the equipment prior to activation of the alarm system, shall not be charged for a "false alarm".
(C) (1) A grace period of 30 days from the date of installation of any new alarm system shall be granted.
(2) During this period, no false alarms shall be recorded for billing purposes.
(Ord. 3-09, passed 4-16-2009)