Chapter 9.10
BURGLARY AND ROBBERY ALARM SYSTEMS
Sections:
9.10.010 Unlawful to maintain without posting of telephone numbers.
9.10.020 Activation in cases other than actual burglary.
9.10.040 Sirens prohibited – Approval required for audible alarm.
9.10.010 Unlawful to maintain without posting of telephone numbers.
It is unlawful to have or maintain on any premises an audible type burglary and/or robbery alarm unless there is posted at the main entrance to such premises a prominent notice of the telephone numbers at which the person or persons authorized to enter such premises and turn off such alarm can be reached at all times, and it is unlawful for any such person to fail to appear and turn off any such alarm within one hour after being notified by the police to do so. (Ord. 722 § 1, 1983)
9.10.020 Activation in cases other than actual burglary.
It is unlawful for anyone to activate any burglary or robbery alarm for the purpose of summoning police, except in the event of an actual or attempted burglary or robbery, or for anyone notifying the police of an activated alarm and having knowledge that such activation was apparently caused by an electrical or other malfunction of the alarm system to fail at the same time to notify the police of such apparent malfunction. (Ord. 722 § 2, 1983)
9.10.030 False alarms.
(1) For the purpose of this section, the term “false alarm” shall mean the activation of a burglary and/or robbery alarm by other than a forced entry or attempted forced entry to the premises and at a time when no burglary or robbery is being committed or attempted on the premises.
(2) For a police response to any false alarm, the chief of police shall charge and collect from the person having or maintaining such burglary and/or robbery alarm on premises owned or occupied by him fees as follows:
(A) For a response to premises at which no other false alarm has occurred within the preceding six-month period, thereinafter referred to as a “first response,” no fee shall be charged, but the person having or maintaining such burglary and/or robbery alarm shall, within three working days after notice to do so, make a written report to the chief of police on forms prescribed by him setting forth the cause of such false alarm, the corrective action taken, whether such alarm has been inspected by an authorized service man, and such other information as the chief of police may reasonably require to determine the cause of such false alarm and corrective action necessary.
(B) For a second response to the premises within six months after a first response, no fee shall be charged, but a written report shall be required as for a first response and the chief of police shall be authorized to inspect or cause to be inspected the alarm system at such premises, prescribe necessary corrective action, and shall give notice to the person having or maintaining such alarm system of the conditions and requirements of this section.
(C) For a third response to the premises within six months after such a second response, and for all succeeding responses within six months of the last response, a fee of $25.00 shall be charged, and if such third false alarm or any such succeeding false alarm is as a result of failure to take necessary corrective action prescribed by the chief of police, said chief of police may order the disconnection of such alarm system and it shall be unlawful to reconnect such alarm system until such corrective action is taken; provided, that no disconnection shall be ordered as to any premises required by law to have an alarm system in operation. (Ord. 722 § 3, 1983)
9.10.040 Sirens prohibited – Approval required for audible alarm.
No person shall install a siren as an audible type burglary and/or robbery alarm, nor shall such person install an audible type burglary and/or robbery alarm unless first approved by the police department. (Ord. 722 § 4, 1983)