(a) An alarm user shall:
(1) Maintain the alarm site and the alarm system in a manner that will minimize or eliminate false alarms;
(2) Make every reasonable effort to have a responder to the alarm system's location within one hour when requested by the law enforcement agency in order to:
A. Deactivate an alarm system;
B. Provide access to the alarm site; and/or
C. Provide alternative security for the alarm site.
(3) Not activate an alarm system for any reason other than an occurrence of an event that the alarm system was designed to report.
(b) An alarm user shall adjust the mechanism or cause the mechanism to be adjusted so that an alarm signal audible on the exterior of an alarm site will sound for no longer than ten minutes after being activated.
(c) An alarm user shall have a licensed alarm installation company inspect the alarm system after three false alarms in a calendar year. The Alarm Administrator may waive a required inspection if he/she determines that a false alarm(s) could not have been related to a defect or malfunction in the alarm system. After six false alarms within a calendar year, the alarm user must have a licensed alarm installation company modify the alarm system to be more false alarm resistant or provide additional user training as appropriate.
(d) An alarm user shall not use automatic voice dialers.
(e) An alarm user shall maintain at each alarm site a set of written operating instructions for each alarm system.
(f) All alarm users shall agree with their alarm installation company and/or monitoring company to go through an “acclimation period” for the first seven days after installation of an alarm system during which time the alarm installation company and/or monitoring company will have no obligation to and will not respond to any alarm signal from the alarm site and will not make an alarm dispatch request to law enforcement.
(Ord. 05-02. Passed 3-15-05.)