Chapter 9.06 BURGLARY AND ROBBERY ALARM SYSTEM.
Section 9.06.135 Suspension of police response to burglar alarm sites; Unlawful to operate burglar alarm system or to make alarm dispatch request for suspended burgular alarm site.
A. The Alarm Administrator shall notify the Police Department of each alarm user whose burglar alarm permit qualifies for suspension under this section. The Alarm Administrator shall suspend a burglar alarm permit if it is determined that:
1. The alarm user has had three or more false burglary alarms within one year after the date of issuance of their annual permit, except that the Alarm Administrator may waive a suspension of a permit upon receipt of documented work orders showing numerous attempts to repair the alarm system;
2. There is a false statement of a material fact in the application for registration; or
3. The alarm user fails or refuses to pay a false alarm service fee or late fee assessed under this Chapter.
B. It is unlawful for a person to operate a burglar alarm system during the period in which the alarm permit is suspended. It is unlawful for a monitoring company to make an alarm dispatch request to a burglar alarm site after the company has been notified by the Alarm Administrator that the permit for that alarm site has been suspended. In addition to criminal penalties, the monitoring company must pay a $50 service fee to the Alarm Administrator for each such dispatch to an alarm site. If the penalty is not paid to the Alarm Administrator within 30 days, a late fee of $25 is hereby imposed on the monitoring company.
C. Unless there is a separate indication that there is a crime in progress, the Police Department shall not dispatch an officer to a burglar alarm site for which an alarm permit is suspended.
D. If a burglar alarm permit is reinstated, the Police Department may again suspend the burglar alarm permit if it is determined that two false alarms have occurred within 180 days after the reinstatement date. The exception set forth in paragraph 1 of subsection A applies to any such suspension.
E. This section applies only to burglar alarm systems. Holdup alarms, robbery alarms and panic alarms are not subject to suspension under this section or this Chapter.
(Ord. 2348, Add, 01/27/2006)