(A) If, within any calendar year, five false burglar alarm notifications are made from an alarm site, the Alarm Administrator shall assess the alarm user at that alarm site a fee for each subsequent false burglar alarm notification made from the site during such calendar year.
(B) The Alarm Administrator shall not assess an alarm user for the first false robbery alarm notification emitted from the alarm site during any calendar year. The Alarm Administrator shall, subject to the provisions of this chapter, assess the alarm user for each subsequent false robbery alarm made from the site during such calendar year.
(C) If, within any calendar year, two false fire alarm notifications are made from an alarm site, the Alarm Administrator shall assess the alarm user at that alarm site a fee for each subsequent false fire alarm notification emitted from the site during such calendar year.
(D) If, within any calendar year, two false emergency medical assistance alarm notifications are made from an alarm site, the Alarm Administrator shall assess the alarm user at that alarm site a fee for each subsequent false emergency medical assistance alarm notification made from the site during such calendar year.
(E) The Alarm Administrator shall send written notice to the alarm user of any fee assessed under this chapter. The notice shall be hand delivered to the alarm user, or sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the alarm user at the alarm user’s last known address.
(F) An alarm user shall pay any fee assessed under this chapter within 30 days after the date the fee is assessed.
(G) (1) No fee shall be assessed pursuant to this section, if:
(2) The alarm is shown by the alarm user to have been, in the Alarm Administrator's sole determination, to be the result of:
(a) Extreme weather conditions;
(b) The physical disability of a person present at the address of the false alarm that calls the false alarm activation;
(c) Vandalism;
(d) Telephone line outage; or
(e) Natural or man-made catastrophe.
(Ord. 2001-19, passed 6-12-01; Am. Ord. 2022-66, passed 11-8-22)