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(A) Permit required. A permit shall be required for each alarm business and alarm agent.
(B) Exemptions. The provisions of this subchapter are not applicable to audible alarms affixed to automobiles, boats, boat trailers, house trailers and recreational vehicles.
(C) Permit fee. A permit fee of $50 shall be paid to the Chief of Police and transferred to the City Clerk-Treasurer to be placed in the General Fund.
(1992 Code, § 117.17) Penalty, see § 117.99
(A) The issuing authority shall be the Chief of Police.
(B) Applications for all permits required under this chapter shall be filed with the Chief of Police. The Chief of Police shall prescribe the form of the application and request such information as is necessary to evaluate and act upon the permit application.
(C) The Chief of Police shall conduct an investigation of the applicant to determine his or her character, reputation and moral integrity; provided further, the Chief of Police, at his or her discretion, may dispense with the investigation upon being furnished with an authenticated copy of a current permit issued by another governmental agency. The permit shall be denied if the character, reputation or moral integrity of the applicant is determined to be inimical to the safety or general welfare of the community, or if the applicant falsifies any information in the permit application.
(1992 Code, § 117.18)
Every person engaged in the business of selling, repairing, servicing, altering, replacing, removing or installing a burglar alarm system shall carry on his or her person at all times while so engaged, a valid alarm agent permit issued pursuant to the provisions of this subchapter and shall display such permit to any police officer upon request.
(1992 Code, § 117.19) Penalty, see § 117.99
(A) Hearing. Before a permit issued pursuant to this subchapter may be suspended or revoked, or a police alarm response suspended or revoked, a hearing must be held before the Chief of Police. Notice setting forth the time, place and nature of the hearing shall be sent by mail to the permittee at the address shown on the permit application seven days prior to said hearing.
(B) Grounds for suspension or revocation; suspension of police responses. The Chief of Police may suspend or revoke a permit on the following grounds:
(1) The violation of any of the provisions of this subchapter or failure to comply with same;
(2) Where the character, reputation or moral integrity of the permit holder or his or her employees is determined to be inimical to the public safety or general welfare of the community, such a determination shall include consideration of any conviction of, or release from a penal institution after serving a sentence for a felony or misdemeanor involving robbery, burglary, theft, embezzlement, dishonesty, fraud or the buying or receiving of stolen property within the past five years, or if any information in the permit application has been falsified;
(6) Suspension of police alarm response. Police response to any alarm may be suspended or revoked in the event that excessive false alarms occur as defined in § 117.16, or in the event that it is determined that an armed robbery alarm was intentionally activated by the subscriber when, in fact, an armed robbery was not taking place, or in the event that the burglary or robbery alarms fail to meet the alarm standards of §§ 117.19, 117.21 and 117.22.
(1992 Code, § 117.20)
(A) All alarm systems, devices or components thereof, installed within the city shall be listed on the Burglary Protection Equipment List of Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. (UL listed).
(B) The Chief of Police may grant an exception to the above requirement wherein non-Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. listed alarm systems, devices or components thereof, are determined by the Chief of Police to be substantially equivalent to, or exceed the applicable Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. alarm testing standards.
(C) The applicant shall have the burden of establishing that the non-Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. alarm system, device or component is substantially equivalent to, or exceeds, the applicable Underwriters Laboratory, Inc. alarm testing standard.
(D) The Chief of Police may require the applicant to present documentation and certification from a qualified authority to make the above exception determination.
(1992 Code, § 117.21)
(A) Alarm business. No person shall engage in, conduct or carry on an alarm business without first applying for and receiving a permit therefor in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(B) Alarm agent. No person shall engage in, represent himself or herself to be, or operate as an alarm agent without first applying for and receiving a permit therefor in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.
(C) Audible alarms. No audible alarm may sound for a period of more than 15 minutes each time the alarm is activated.
(D) Automatic alarm. No person shall use or cause to be used any telephone device or telephone attachment that automatically selects a public telephone trunk line of the city and then reproduces any prerecorded message to report any burglary or other emergency without the prior written consent of the Chief of Police.
(E) Police station alarm board. No person, alarm company or alarm agent may install, connect or modify any alarm system terminating with the police station of the City Police Department without prior written permission from the Chief of Police. Such permission must be retained by the alarm subscriber, and may be terminated by the Chief of Police if any of the conditions for suspension of the permit described in § 117.20 are found to exist.
(1992 Code, § 117.23) Penalty, see § 117.99
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