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The Fire Chief and Police Chief shall cause to be maintained a record of the date and time of any false alarms received by his or her Department, and of the officers of the Department who responded. The record shall be open for the inspection of the owner or lessee, or his or her authorized representative, on regular business days between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. at the office of the Chief of the Department.
(Prior Code, § 6-812.02) (Ord. 93-2173, passed 8-30-1993)
(A) In the event a false alarm was, or may have been, the result of improper design, installation, or maintenance of the owner's or lessee's alarm system component, the Fire Chief or, as the case may be, Police Chief, shall notify the owner or lessee to cause the component to comply with the requirements of this chapter within the time specified in the notice, and may order the component disconnected immediately pending compliance. The notice may be either oral or in writing, in the Chief's sound discretion.
(B) The ordered disconnection shall be done in a manner that signals are not emitted so as to notify the Fire or, as the case may be, Police Department by a signal on its alarm panel, or directly or indirectly through automatic telephone recording devices, or to register a signal which is so audible, visible, or in other ways perceptible outside a protected building, structure, or facility as to notify persons in the neighborhood who may in turn notify either the Fire Department or the Police Department of the signal.
(Prior Code, § 6-812.03) (Ord. 93-2173, passed 8-30-1993)
In the event that, within any period of 12 months, in excess of four false alarms shall be transmitted by any alarm system component connected to a panel in the Fire or Police Department, or by any automatic dialer or a third party relay to a telephone in the Department, and the alarms result in responses by the Department to the scene, the owner or lessee shall pay to the city, as the liquidated amount of expenses incurred by the Department in connection with responses, the sum(s) as set forth in Chapter 38, Fee Schedule after written notice from the Chief, mailed to the owner or lessee at his or her last known address, specifying the alarms and responses.
(Prior Code, § 6-812.04) (Ord. 93-2173, passed 8-30-1993)
(A) Any person who violates any of the prohibitions or provisions of any chapter or section of this chapter shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. Unless otherwise specified in the particular chapter or section for which the person stands convicted of violating, the penalty for the violation shall be in any amount not less than $20 nor more than $1,000 and/or imprisonment for any length of time not to exceed three months, at the discretion of the court; provided, whenever any section of this chapter shall declare a nuisance, a violation of that section shall be penalized by a fine of not more than $1,000, in which case a new violation shall be deemed to have been committed every 24 hours of the failure to comply. Provided further, that where licenses, charges and surcharges are due the city, the court shall order the license secured and sums paid in addition to the fine fixed by the court.
(Prior Code, § 6-901)
(B) Whenever a nuisance exists, as defined in this chapter, the municipality may proceed by a suit in equity to enjoin and abate the same, in the manner provided by law. Whenever, in any action, it is established that a nuisance exists, the court may, together with the fine or penalty imposed, enter an order of abatement as a part of the judgment in the case.
(Prior Code, § 6-902)
Statutory reference:
Authority, see Neb. RS 18-1720, 18-1722