(A) Duty to minimize false alarms. In an effort to ensure alarm reliability and to minimize the occurrence of false alarms, alarm user permit holders shall take affirmative steps to adequately train their alarm personnel and to update and regularly maintain their alarm systems such that false alarms rarely occur, especially false alarms which result from equipment malfunctions, improper installations of alarms and/or any form of human error with respect to operation and/or maintenance of such alarms.
(B) Recordation of false alarms. The Alarm Director shall maintain a record of all false alarms.
(C) Notification of false alarms. The Alarm Director shall notify the alarm user, in writing, of each occurrence of a false alarm, which notice shall demand payment of a specified amount due and payable pursuant to the charges provided for in this chapter.
(D) Appeal of false alarm finding. The alarm user shall be entitled to submit a written report to the Alarm Director provided that the alarm user files such a written report within 14 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery of the Alarm Director's notice of the false alarm. In the report, the alarm user may offer evidence of circumstances that may warrant voiding the Alarm Director's recordation of the false alarm. Such evidence may include facts showing that the alarm's activation was caused by severe weather, power outages, transmission line malfunctions, acts of God, or malicious acts of persons not under the control of the alarm user. Within 14 days of the Alarm Director's receipt of the alarm user's written report, the Alarm Director shall review the alarm user's report and issue a written finding to the alarm user as to whether or not the false alarm will be voided. The finding of the Alarm Director shall be final.
(E) False alarm service charges. For each false alarm recorded for a protected premises in excess of four in any calendar year (January 1st through December 31st), the alarm user permittee shall be charged a false alarm service charge as follows:
5 - 7 false alarms: $100.00 per false alarm
8 - 10 false alarms: $200.00 per false alarm
11 or more false alarms: $300.00 per false alarm
(F) False alarm service charge collection. All false alarm service charges shall be paid to the Village Treasurer within 30 days from the date of the Alarm Director's notice thereof.
(Ord. 82-0-006, passed 3-2-82; Am. Ord. 98-0-053, passed 10-20-98) Penalty, see § 92.99