§ 5-30.09. Alarm business violations.  


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  • Alarm businesses shall be subject to the following:

    (a)

    It shall be unlawful for an alarm business to misreport an alarm in order to receive police response.

    (b)

    Alarm businesses shall be subject to being assessed civil fines, as established by City Council resolution, for failure to verify an alarm in accordance with the procedures set forth in this chapter, and before requesting a police response for alarms on verified response status.

    (c)

    Alarm businesses shall be subject to being assessed a civil fine, as established by City Council resolution, if it is determined by a responding officer that an employee of the alarm business caused a false alarm at the location of the alarm system. False alarms caused by alarm business employees will not be counted as false alarms against the alarm user.

(§ 1, Ord. 697, eff. March 1, 1989, as amended by § 1, Ord. 1073, eff. May 16, 2005)