(a) Notification. At the time of the above required registration, each subscriber must provide to the City, on a form provided by the Department of Public Safety, the name, address and telephone number of the subscriber and of the vendor, if any, with whom the subscriber has contracted for maintenance of the alarm system. Each subscriber shall also provide the City with the names, addresses and telephone numbers of those persons (not less than one) who can be contacted twenty-four hours a day and seven days a week to turn off or deactivate an alarm system. It shall be the obligation of the subscriber to keep this information current and to correct the same through supplementary notifications filed from time to time on the same form.
(b) Automatic Dialing or Calling Devices. Alarm systems that automatically dial or call a telephone line connecting into the Public Safety Department shall comply with the following requirements:
(1) The total length of a single recorded message being transmitted to the Public Safety Department shall not exceed thirty seconds duration.
(2) The recorded message transmitted shall be repeated not less than two nor more than five times.
(3) The recorded message being transmitted to the Public Safety Department shall be appropriate for the purpose for which the alarm system was installed. Such messages shall be clearly spoken and shall incorporate language specifically identifying the message as a “recording” with the balance of the message identifying by address the location of the emergency. If the location of the event signaled by the alarm system is in a multifamily building or a multi-unit office or commercial building, the message shall also identify by number and by floor the particular dwelling unit, office unit or commercial unit in which the event occurred.
(c) Application of Standards to Existing and Future Alarm Systems.
(1) Every new system installed after the passage of this chapter shall comply with the standards set forth in subsections (a) and (b) hereof.
(2) Every alarm system existing before the passage of this chapter shall be placed in compliance with the above standards no later than three months after such passage date. The Public Safety Department may elect to charge each subscriber not in compliance for each such response at a rate of no less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per false alarm, or to charge the City's direct and indirect costs for the time, labor, equipment and other services used in responding to such alarm, whichever is higher.
(Ord. 89-6. Passed 3-20-89.)