(A) Each application for permit to install a telephonic alarm system shall be accompanied by an installation fee to be established by the Board of Trustees. As a condition to granting a permit to maintain and operate said system, an annual fee to be established by the Board of Trustees shall be paid in advance for each year of operation of said system.
(B) Each application for permit to install a burglar alarm system, automatic protection device, or a signaling device which utilizes a signal line to activate an indicator on the central control board located at the communications center shall be accompanied by an installation fee to be established by the Board of Trustees. As a condition to granting a permit to operate and maintain such a device or system, an annual fee to be established by the Board of Trustees shall be paid in advance for each year of operation of said system.
(C) Each application for a permit or license for an alarm equipment supplier shall be accompanied by a fee to be established by the Board of Trustees.
(D) Failure to pay annual operation fees on or before January 1 in each year shall result in disconnection of the burglar alarm system, automatic protection device, or signaling device from the control panel at the communications center after the expiration of 15 days from the date such permit holder receives written notice from the communications center of his failure to pay said annual operation fee, or in the case of telephonic alarm system operational fees, any such system shall be disconnected and removed by the permit holder within 15 days from the date notice of such failure to pay is received by the permit holder.
(E) False alarm fees.
(1) In the event that more than three alarms are received by the communications center from a permit holder under the terms and provisions of this chapter during a one calendar year period, which are determined by the Chief of Police or communications center to be due to human error, mechanical difficulty or in any way a false alarm, then and in that event, such permit holder shall pay a fee to be established by the Board of Trustees for the fourth such false alarm during any such one year period. For each additional false alarm thereafter in any such one year period an additional fee to be established by the Board of Trustees per false alarm shall be paid by such permit holder to the communications center.
(2) All false alarm fees provided for by this division shall be paid by the person, firm, corporation, or business owning or in possession of the premises within 30 days from the date the false alarm fee bill thereof is deposited in a mail box of the U.S. Postage Service with the postage fully prepaid addressed to the above described person or entity. Failure to pay such fee as required in this division shall be punishable by prosecution by the village or institution of such other appropriate procedures as determined by the village, including disconnection of the alarm from the central board of the communications center.
(3) In the event any person, firm, corporation, or business owning or in possession of any premises within the corporate limits of the village has any automatic protection device, signaling device, or other type of burglar alarm system or automatic protection device not attached to or originally transmitted to the communications center which emits any visual, audible, or any other type of signal, transmits, displays, or otherwise emits more than three false alarms during any calendar year, which alarm is falsely activated as a result of, but not limited to, human error, mechanical failure, or difficulty or malfunction in the system, then in such instance the person, firm, business, or corporation shall pay a false alarm fee to be established by the Board of Trustees to the village a false alarm fee to be established by the Board of Trustees per false alarm for the fourth such alarm during any one calendar year and shall pay to thereafter in any one calendar year.
(4) The Police Department of the village shall maintain records which shall be prima facie evidence of the dates the village received and investigated any false alarms for each premises located within the corporate limits of the village and further, the Police Department shall notify the person, firm, corporation, or business owning or in control of such premises after the third false alarm of the false alarm fees required under this chapter.
(Ord. 785, passed 11-20-72; Am. Ord. 1097, passed 9-19-83)