The City Council finds that the majority of burglar, robbery and fire alarms to which the Police Department and Fire Department respond are false. Responses to these false alarms result in a substantial waste of municipal resources. The fact that such a large percentage of the alarms are false may also lull public safety personnel into a sense of false security or reduced urgency in dealing with alarm calls. Further, the danger to citizens created by emergency responses to false alarms should be minimized. It is in the best interests of the public safety, welfare, and convenience of the city as well as in fairness to its citizens that the city require those persons generating an unusual number of false alarms to be deterred from permitting their alarm systems to generate the false alarms and to defray the city's expense for responding to those false alarms.
(`83 Code, § 9.47.010) (Ord. 92-17 § 1 (part), 1992)