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Sec. 6.10.010. - Definitions.#
All words and phrases used in this article shall have the following meanings unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context.
Alarm: Any telephone or electronic device used to notify the police about acts of a crime or an emergency.
Alarm business: The business by any individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving, or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired altered, replaced, moved, or installed any alarm system in or on any building structure, or facility.
Alarm user: The person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind in possession and control of any building, structure or part thereof, or facility wherein an alarm system is maintained.
Automatic dialing device: A device which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice message or code signal an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response.
Chief of police: The director of the Kamas City Police Department or his/her authorized and designated representative.
Direct access alarm system: A system which has remote access to the automatic monitoring devices installed in the county dispatch center.
False alarm: An alarm signal, eliciting a response by police officials when a situation requiring a police response does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonable subject to control by the alarm business operator or user.
(Ord. 2015-04, 11/10/2015)
Sec. 6.10.020. - Notification required.#
It shall be unlawful for a person to maintain an alarm on any premises without first providing the alarm company a list of persons with telephone numbers, who are authorized and responsible to enter the alarm user's premises and deactivate the alarm. It is unlawful for any person named on such list, who has been personally contacted by police, to fail to appear within the time designated by police and inactivate the alarm for which he/she is responsible.
(Ord. 2015-04, 11/10/2015)
Sec. 6.10.030. - False alarms.#
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False alarms prohibited. It shall be unlawful for a person to cause a false alarm deliberately or through inadvertence or neglect.
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Misuse or tempering with an alarm system. It shall be unlawful for any person or alarm user to misuse, tamper with, alter, or obstruct any alarm system, whether or not such a misuse, tampering or alteration, or obstruction causes the alarm to signal entry into the premises, unless such person is an authorized technician duly authorized by the alarm user to perform maintenance or testing on such alarm, and provided that such technician has notified the Kamas City Police Department, Summit County Sheriff's Department, and the alarm user of such maintenance.
(Ord. 2015-04, 11/10/2015)
Sec. 6.10.040. - Private security response.#
If an alarm is answered or monitored by a private security firm or other such individual not associated with publicly funded law enforcement, and the alarm user or monitoring agency does not wish response by the Kamas City Police Department until such alarm has been verified by the alarm user or monitoring agency, then the Kamas City Police Department and the Summit County dispatch must be notified in writing that no police response is desired unless specifically requested by an alarm user, responsible party for the alarm, or private security firm.
(Ord. 2015-04, 11/10/2015)
Sec. 6.10.050. - Penalty.#
For a police response to a false alarm, the police chief shall charge and collect the following fees from the alarm user, which will be billed to the business or personal address. 1.
Penalty fees first response. For response to premises at which no other false alarm has occurred within the preceding 30 days period, hereinafter referred to as "first response" no fee shall be charged. The police responding to the "first response" alarm shall provide written notification to the alarm user that subsequent responses to false alarms will be charged.
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Penalty fees subsequent responses. For a second response to the same premises with three months after such "first response" and for all subsequent responses, the police chief shall charge $25.00.
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Sentencing. Any person convicted of a violation of, or failure to comply with any of the provisions of this chapter shall be punishable in accordance with of the Municipal Code of Kamas City.
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Willful false alarm. Any person, including alarm user, who knowingly and deliberately activates an alarm system when no emergency situation exists at the premises, shall be guilty of a Class B misdemeanor and be subject to a fine of not more than $1,000.00, imprisonment for six months, or both.
(Ord. 2015-04, 11/10/2015)