(A) Whenever an alarm is activated thereby requiring an emergency response to the location by the Police or Fire Department and the Police or Fire Department does respond, the Police or Fire Department personnel on the scene of the activated alarm system shall inspect the area protected by the system and shall determine whether the emergency response was, in fact, required as indicated by the alarm system or whether the alarm signal was a false alarm.
(B) If the Police or Fire Department personnel at the scene of the activated alarm system determines the alarm to be false, said officer shall make a report of the false alarm.
(C) If it is determined that there have not been more than two false alarms from said alarm system within the calendar year, the Chief of the Police Department, the Chief of the Fire Department, or the designee of the Chief of Police or the Fire Chief shall cause a notification of the false alarm report to be mailed, by certified mail, or delivered to the alarm user at the address of said alarm system installation location, advising the alarm user of the false alarm.
(D) An alarm user who receives said notification shall have five days within which to inform the Chief of the Department responsible for issuing the notification that the alarm user disputes the existence of the false alarm. If the alarm user fails to make said notification within the stated time period, it shall be presumed that the existence of the false alarm has been acknowledged.
(Prior Code, 4 TCC 4-4)