9.05.010 - Findings.

The city council finds: (a)

Many burglar and robbery alarms to which law enforcement responds are false. Such false alarms result in an enormous waste of manpower;

(b)

Alarm systems which automatically and directly dial any emergency phone number are very prone to be activated by current failures or other events having no connection with criminal activity and tie up such emergency phones making them unavailable to receive genuine emergency calls;

(c)

The danger to citizens through emergency response created by false alarms must be eliminated;

(d)

The unnecessary waste of tax dollars through responses to false alarms must be elimated; and

(e)

False burglar and robbery alarms have created conditions causing danger and annoyance to the general public.

(Ord. 559 § 1, 2002).