(a) No person shall operate an alarm system without first obtaining a permit as required by this chapter, or after having a permit revoked or suspended and having exhausting the right of appeal, fail to disconnect the alarm system.
Each day of such unpermitted use shall constitute a separate violation.
(b) No alarm permit holder shall allow more than two chargeable false alarms to be transmitted to the police during the immediately preceding two-year period. An alarm will be classified as false if the responding police personnel see no evidence of robbery, burglary, vandalism or unauthorized intrusion.
If the permit holder proves that the alarm was caused by an event not reasonably foreseeable and which could not have been prevented by the proper adjustment or presetting of the sensor threshold the alarm will be designated a nonchargeable false alarm.
(c) After three officially chargeable false alarms in any permit year the Chief of Police shall review the alarm holder's permit and recommend to the Safety Director continuance of the permit or revoking of the permit for up to a maximum of six months.
The alarm permit holder may appeal the Safety Director's decision to Council as provided for in this chapter. Council's decision shall be final.
The Chief of Police may order the disconnection of any alarm system upon forwarding a recommendation of suspension or revocation of an alarm permit to the Safety Director pending his review and any appeals.
No permit holder shall fail to disconnect his alarm system upon order of the Chief of Police as set forth herein.
(d) Whoever violates subsection (a), (b) or (c) hereof is guilty of a minor misdemeanor.
(e) No alarm holder shall knowingly allow his alarm system to be used by any person to create a false alarm as defined in this chapter.
Whoever violates subsection (e) hereof is guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree in addition to any other penalty prescribed in this chapter. The alarm permit held by such permit holder may be suspended or revoked for up to one year.
(Ord. 125-79. Passed 10-8-79.)
(f) No person, organization or business that installs an alarm system shall fail to remit the permit fee as required by Section 715.02(c). No person, organization or business shall fail to notify the Chief of Police of the installation or removal or termination of an alarm system as required by Section 715.02(d). Whoever violates this subsection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the fourth degree.
(Ord. 41-88. Passed 5-23-88.)