971.06 FALSE ALARMS; PENALTY.

   (a)    No person, firm or company shall install, control or have on their premises, any alarm equipment resulting in calls to the Fire or Police Departments which has less than the level of maintenance necessary to prevent false alarms from being emitted.

   (b)   Any person, firm or corporation allowing false alarms to be emitted to the Police or Fire Departments, shall receive two warnings as to fire, and four warnings for false police alarms, within any one year period, for which no penalty shall be assessed. Thereafter, penalties shall be assessed as hereafter provided.

   (c)   For any business, commercial or industrial enterprise, having more than two false fire alarms within a one year period, the owner and/or tenant of the premises, or the alarm company, shall be assessed five hundred dollars ($500.00) for the third false alarm, seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for a fourth false alarm, and one thousand dollars ($1,000) for the fifth and each successive false fire alarm during any twelve month calendar period. Each false police alarm beyond four shall result in an assessment of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per alarm.

   (d)    For all residential premises wherein which false fire alarms exceed two, the owners, and/or tenants of such premises, or the alarm company, shall be assessed a penalty in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the third false alarm, two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the fourth false alarm, and three hundred dollars ($300.00) for the fifth and each successive false fire alarm. Each false police alarm beyond four shall result in an assessment of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per alarm.

   (e)   No penalty shall be assessed for a false alarm to which there is no response by the Police or Fire Departments, nor when the cause has been proven to be an act of God.

(Ord. 2020-38. Passed 2-15-21.)