(a) A person must not engage in the alarm business in Montgomery County unless the person obtains an alarm business license.
(b) The County Executive must establish by regulation adopted under method (2) procedures to issue licenses to all alarm businesses that operate in Montgomery County. The Executive must set an alarm business license fee by regulation adopted under method (2).
(c) An alarm business without a current County license must not request a police response to an alarm signal from an alarm system in the County. The Police Department must not respond to a request for police response from an unlicensed alarm business.
(d) The enforcing agency may collect, analyze, and disclose statistical or other information about the false alarm experience of specific alarm businesses. The authority in this subsection does not limit any other data collection or disclosure authority of any County agency.
(1989 L.M.C., ch. 6, § 1; 1993 L.M.C., ch. 14, § 1; 1997 L.M.C., ch. 29, §1.)