(a) The acceptance of any alarm system by the Chief of Police, as provided in this chapter, shall in no manner place upon the Police Division, the Fire Division, the Municipal Safety Center or the City any additional liabilities, other than those legally incurred with Municipal emergency service functions.
(b) Alarm businesses and alarm users shall comply with the scope and intent of this chapter within sixty days of the adoption of this chapter
(Ordinance 86-50, passed November 18, 1986).
(c) Person's installing alarms intended for receipt at the Municipal Safety Center shall contract for connection with the alarm panel provider as specified by the Chief of Police. The provider shall be the exclusive provider on the basis of a competitive bid process.
(Ord. 86-50. Passed 11-18-86.)
(d) Each alarm user whose system is connected to the Municipal Safety Center shall pay to the City the sum of three hundred sixty dollars ($360.00) annually, to be paid on or before January 1 of each year. Said charge shall be prorated monthly from the date that the user's alarm system is connected to the Municipal Safety Center.
Any alarm user who has not paid said fee by February 1 of each year or within thirty days after connection to the Municipal Safety Center shall be disconnected.
(e) After the effective date of this subsection, only business alarm users shall be connected to the Municipal Safety Center. Any residence alarm users now connected thereto may remain so until such time as the property is transferred or the connection is terminated as provided for elsewhere in this chapter.
The Finance Director shall give written notice to each alarm user whose alarm system is presently connected to the Municipal Safety Center that the alarm user must either terminate its connection to the Municipal Safety Center or pay a fee of two hundred seventy dollars ($270.00) on or before May 1, 1993.
(Ord. 93-13. Passed 3-23-93.)