This article is intended to regulate the activities and responsibilities of those persons who purchase, lease or rent and those persons who own or conduct the business of selling, leasing, renting, installing, maintaining, or monitoring alarm systems, devices or services. It is further intended to encourage the improvement in reliability of these systems, devices and services to ensure that police department personnel will not be unduly diverted from responding to actual criminal activity as a result of responding to false alarms. This article specifically encompasses burglary, robbery and commercial panic alarms, both audible and inaudible (silent). Except as otherwise provided in this article, this article shall not apply to audible alarms affixed to motor vehicles, audible fire alarms, medical alert devices, and alarm systems that are operated by the city, county, state, or federal government and installed on premises which such entity occupies or uses for governmental purposes. However, such entities shall apply for and obtain a registration for each alarm system it operates and the registration will be waived.
(Ord. No. 10967, § 2, 2-28-12, eff. 4-1-12)