(A) Alarm business license. The annual license fee stated in Chapter 33 is due and payable on July 1 of each year for each alarm business. The license fee will not be prorated.
(B) Alarm user. The annual license fee stated in Chapter 33 is due and payable on July 1 of each year by each alarm user. License fees will be prorated on a monthly basis. When the annual permit is not paid to the city in accordance to the annual fee stated in Chapter 33, the annual fee will be added to the alarm user’s utility bill.
(C) Fee exemptions. The United States Government, the state, the Counties of Hennepin and Ramsey, the city, or any departments thereof, are exempt from the fee requirements of division (B) above.
(D) Responses to false alarms.
(1) Fees for false alarms must be paid to the city by the alarm user in accordance with this section. If fee is not paid to the city in accordance with this section, the fee will be added to the alarm user’s utility bill by the City Finance Director. No fee will be charged for a response to a false alarm where not more than two false alarms occur within a 12-month period.
(2) The sum of $75 must be paid to the city by the alarm user for each false alarm response after the second response within a 12-month period. This fee increases by $25 for each subsequent alarm thereafter in the same period.
(Prior Code, § 111.155)