(a) Alarm users shall be responsible for excessive alarms sent by alarm systems on premises under their control. The fees imposed shall be based on the number of false alarms sent by the one alarm system within a calendar year or within a twelve (12) month rolling experience period, whichever is applicable, as provided below.
(b) There is hereby imposed on alarm users an administrative fee, based on the cost of administration and police response to alarms, as follows:
(1) For one (1) through eight (8) alarms, no fee shall be imposed.
(2) For the ninth (9th) and any additional alarms, a fee of three hundred fifty dollars ($350.00) for each false alarm received shall be imposed.
(3) Any alarm user who exceeds eight (8) false alarms in two (2) or more consecutive calendar years will be converted to a twelve (12) month rolling experience period.
(4) Administrative fees generated hereby shall be billed to the responsible alarm user quarterly.
(c) If an alarm user changes alarm monitoring companies, the then-accumulated false alarm count shall remain the same.
(d) Non-payment of a fee imposed hereby within thirty (30) days after it is billed may result in the initiation of civil collection proceedings, criminal prosecution; administrative enforcement proceedings; the issuance of orders terminating the use of the alarm system, and/or such other and further enforcement proceedings as may be deemed appropriate and available.
(e) Upon consultation, review, and the recommendation of the Fire Chief or the Fire Chief’s designee, the City Manager may grant a waiver of the administrative fee otherwise to be imposed and collected hereby premised upon the City Manager's determination that justifiable causes exist warranting such waiver.
(Ord. A-1789. Passed 2-11-91; Ord. A-2286. Passed 12-10-01; Ord. A-2337. Passed 2-10-03; Ord. A-2793. Passed 8-11-14; Ord. A-3032. Passed 12-14-20.)