(a) No person shall operate an alarm system without first obtaining a permit as required by this chapter, or after having a permit revoked or suspended, and after exhausting the right of appeal, fail to disconnect the alarm system. Violation of this section shall be a minor misdemeanor. Each day of such unpermitted use shall constitute a separate violation.
(b) No alarm permitholder shall allow more than two chargeable false alarms to be transmitted to the City's Emergency Police Communications Center during the immediate preceding two-year period. An alarm shall be classified as false if the responding police or fire personnel see no evidence of fire, smoke, robbery, burglary, vandalism or unauthorized intrusion. If the permitholder proves that the alarm was caused by an event not reasonably foreseeable and which could not have been prevented by the proper adjustment or presetting of the sensor threshold, the alarm shall be designated a nonchargeable false alarm. Violation of this section shall be a minor misdemeanor.
(c) After three officially chargeable false alarms in any permit year, the permitholder shall be charged one hundred dollars ($100.00) each for the next three officially chargeable false alarms in any permit year. After a total of six false alarms in any permit year, the Chief of Police or the Fire Chief shall review the alarm holder's permit and recommend to the Service Director continuance of the permit or revocation of the permit for up to a maximum of six months. The alarm permitholder may appeal the City Service Director's decision to Council as provided for in Section 733.05. Council's decision shall be final. The Chief of Police or Fire Chief may order the disconnection of any alarm system upon forwarding a recommendation of suspension or revocation of an alarm permit to the City Service Director pending his review and any appeals. No permitholder shall fail to disconnect his alarm system upon order of the appropriate Chief as set forth herein. Violation of this section shall be a minor misdemeanor.
(d) No alarm permitholder shall knowingly allow his alarm system to be used by any person to create a false alarm as defined in Section 509.07. Violation of this section shall be a misdemeanor of the fourth degree. In addition to any other penalty prescribed by Section 501.99, the alarm permit held by such permitholder may be suspended or revoked for up to one year.
(Ord. 83-89. Passed 11-13-89.)