Whenever a security alarm or fire alarm system is activated in the city and results in the dispatch and arrival of the Police Department or the Fire Department, the senior officer responding to the premises where the alarm system is activated shall inspect the area protected by the system and shall determine whether there exists reasonably apparent evidence of crime, threatened crime, fire, threatened fire or other circumstances that would warrant a call for immediate police or fire assistance. If the senior officer determines there exists no such evidence, the officer shall make a false alarm report by conveying the time, date, location and circumstances of the false alarm to the Communications Center. The Communications Center shall maintain records of false alarms and those records, when properly authenticated, shall be presumptively valid as proof of the false alarm sounding in any ordinance violation proceeding based thereon.
(1979 Code, § 94.03) (Ord. 4584, passed 5-7-2001)