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Section 12-29 Unfounded calls for service.
Responsibility for unfounded calls for service under this article shall be borne by the alarm system user for each of the user’s separate alarm systems. For each response by the city police or fire department to any unfounded call for service, the alarm system user shall be subject to the following regulating procedure: (1) There shall be no fee charged for the first two (2) unfounded calls for service days within the period of any one (1) calendar month. For any person who maintains an alarm system at each of two (2) or more separate locations, the provisions of this paragraph shall apply to each separate location. For all succeeding responses to unfounded calls for service to premises within the same one (1) month period a fee of twenty dollars ($20.00) shall be charged for each such response. The determination of whether an unfounded call for service has taken place shall be made by the chief of police and there shall be no appeal from this determination. (2) Where a determination has been made that an unfounded call for service has taken place, the chief of police shall notify the alarm system user in writing of the fee assessed for the unfounded call for service. The notification shall be sent by regular U.S. mail to the alarm system user at the address maintained by the police department for the alarm system user. Upon a failure of a user to pay any fee specified in subsection (1) within ten (10) days after the date of the written notification of the fee assessed, the deputy city marshal shall draw a fi.fa. against the delinquent user in the past due amount, and collect same after proper levy, advertisement and public sale. (3) The provisions of this section shall also apply to those alarm system users whose alarm systems are not connected directly to a monitoring device at the city police department but are instead connected to a monitoring device maintained by an alarm system business. If an unfounded call for service is received by the city police department by way of call from an alarm system business then it shall be treated the same as an unfounded call for service received by way of input directly to the monitoring device at the city police department. Upon a failure of such an alarm system user who fails to pay any fee specified in subsection (1) within ten (10) days after the date of the written notification of the fee assessed, the deputy city marshal shall draw a fi.fa. against the delinquent user in the past due amount and collect same after proper levy, advertisement, and public sale. (Ord. of 3-9-87, III)
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