(a) Any residence or lawful business located within the Municipality may be equipped with an emergency alarm for the purpose of detecting and signaling the presence of a fire or unauthorized upon compliance with this chapter. Existing installations shall be subject to the requirements of this section.
(b) All equipment used shall meet the applicable standards of the Underwriters Laboratories and/or the National Fire Protection Association and/or other recognized industry standard.
(c) The sensory mechanism used in connection with such devices shall be adjusted to suppress false indications of fire or intrusion, so that the devices will not be actuated by impulses due to transient pressure changes in water pipes, flashes of flight, wind noises such as the rattling or vibrating of doors or windows, vehicular noise adjacent to the installation, or other forces unrelated to genuine alarms.
(d) All components comprising such a device shall be maintained by their owner or lessee in good repair to assure reliability of operation.
(e) All local intrusion type alarms shall have the capacity to reset themselves after fifteen minutes. Local alarms presently in use as of the effective date of this section shall have six months to comply with the requirements of this section.
(f) All political subdivisions shall be required to comply with all sections of this chapter.
(g) Each alarm user shall be in possession of a list of instructions as to the way the device operates along with the instructions for the maintenance of the same.
(h) A fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be imposed upon the alarm recorded in excess of six within the then current calendar year.
(Ord. 1987-2. Passed 3-3-87.)