After the first two chargeable false alarms (to be determined by the City Administrator) during any calendar year, a service fee shall be charged to the alarm user for false alarms to which the Police Department or Fire/Rescue Division are required to respond in accordance with their standard operating procedures. The fee schedule shall read as follows:
False Alarm Occurrence | Fee |
1st or 2nd | No fee |
3rd | $40.00 |
4th | $60.00 |
5th | $80.00 |
6th | $120.00 |
After the 6th false alarm, the City shall charge the alarm user $120.00 for each occurrence.
The service fees shall be invoiced monthly through the office of the Fire/Rescue Division and are due within thirty days after invoicing. A service fee may be waived by the City Administrator for good cause shown.
(b) There shall be an additional thirty dollars ($30.00) fee if the total response time for any call is more than thirty minutes. A thirty dollar ($30.00) fee shall be charged for each additional thirty minutes.
(c) If the City's dispatcher is unable to contact one of the three individuals on the contact list on two consecutive alarms, then a failure to respond fee will be charged as follows: $40.00 for the first occurrence and $80.00 for the second occurrence and each occurrence thereafter.
(Ord. 23-14. Passed 3-6-23.)