(a) Each department shall monitor the number of false alarms to which it responds, keeping records of the same; such records shall indicate the date of all false alarms to which the department responded, the name and address of the alarm user of the system generating the false alarm, the time of the false alarm, the weather conditions existing at the time of the false alarm and such additional information as deemed necessary by the issuing authority. The department shall also indicate in the false alarm records the existence of mitigating or moderating circumstances relative to any false alarm.
(b) If any alarm system produces three false alarms, as false alarm is defined in Section 555.01, in any twelve consecutive month period, the issuing authority shall give written notice of the provisions of this section regarding false alarms by certified mail or personal service to the alarm user.
(c) If more than three false alarms in any twelve consecutive month period are produced by any alarm system, a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall be assessed the alarm user for the fourth false alarm and a fee of fifty dollars ($50.00) assessed for each false alarm thereafter in a twelve consecutive month period.
(d) The issuing authority may order an alarm user to disconnect an alarm system immediately so that signals are not emitted to the Police or Fire Department, either directly or indirectly, if the alarm system has generated an excessive number of false alarms. An excessive number of false alarms for the period of this section is an accumulation of more than seven false alarms within a twelve consecutive month period.
(e) Any person who fails to pay any charge for a false alarm as provided in this section and which remains unpaid for thirty days after the date of invoice for a false alarm, shall be ordered by the issuing authority to immediately disconnect the alarm system so that it does not signal the Police or Fire Department either directly or indirectly. An alarm system may be reconnected only if satisfactory evidence is provided to the issuing authority that the alarm system has been repaired so that it does not emit further false alarms, and upon payment of all delinquent charges assessed for false alarms.
(Ord. 87-33. Passed 7-6-87.)