The City of Spring Hill finds and declares that:
(A) The vast majority of alarms to which the Police and Fire Departments respond are false alarms, which are reported to the dispatch center by alarm companies.
(B) Most false alarms are the result of improper maintenance or improper or careless use of an alarm system.
(C) The public, police and fire personnel are subjected to needless danger when they are called to respond to false alarms.
(D) Personnel responding to false alarms are not available to carry out other duties.
(E) In the interest of using limited police and fire resources most effectively and efficiently, the number of false alarms can and must be reduced.
(F) The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the dangers and inefficiencies associated with false alarms and to encourage alarm companies and property/business owners to maintain the operational reliability, properly use alarm systems, and to reduce or eliminate false alarm dispatch requests.
(G) This chapter governs systems intended to summon a police and/or fire response, establishes fees, fines, establishes a system of administration, sets conditions for the suspension of a police and/or fire response and establishes a public education and training program.
(Ord. 22-11, passed 6-6-2022)