(A) Excessive false alarms. It is hereby found and determined that three (3) or more false alarms within any permit year is excessive, the cost of which should not be borne by the public. Also, it is further found that fifty dollars ($50.00) per response in excess of three calls to a false alarm represents a fair determination of the City's cost in making said response.
(B) Service charge.
(1) The 3rd through the 5th false alarms within a twelve-month period will be billed a fifty-dollar ($50.00) service charge per occurrence which shall be considered a bill owed by the alarm user to the City and may be collected from the alarm user as a civil debt. Each fifty-dollar ($50.00) service charge incurred for the 3rd through 5th false alarms at the premises described in the alarm user's permit shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the date of mailing of the invoice.
(2) The 5th false alarm within a twelve-month period or the failure to pay any service charge within the time prescribed herein shall result in the revocation of the alarm user's permit in the following manner:
(a) The alarm user shall be given ten (10) days' advance written notification that the alarm user's permit will be revoked. This written notice shall set forth the reasons for such revocation.
(b) The notice shall specify the specific date of revocation and that the police department will discontinue responding to alarm signals that occur at the premises described in the revoked permit after the date of revocation.
(c) An alarm user may appeal a permit revocation in writing to the Monroe Chief of Police within ten days of the date of notice of revocation. Revocation of the permit shall continue in effect pending final administrative resolution of the appeal. Upon receipt of written appeal by the alarm use, the alarm system coordinator shall schedule and conduct a hearing using the same procedures set out in § 35.24 of this chapter.
(d) Reinstatement of both the permit and eligibility for police response to alarm signals will be made only upon receipt of any prior unpaid service charges assessed pursuant to this section plus a reinstatement fee of fifty dollars ($50.00).
(C) Permit year. For the purposes of this section, a permit year is a twelve-month period beginning on the date of the permit's issuance.
(D) The above provisions of this section shall not be construed to prevent police response to information received independently of the alarm system for which the alarm user permit has been revoked.
(E) Any notice required pursuant to this chapter shall be made to the address on the alarm permit provided by the alarm user.
(Ord. O-1999-40, passed 7-20-99; Am. Ord. O-1999-69, passed 11-2-99; Am. Ord. O-2002-57, passed 10-1-02)