5.56.050 Alarm User Duties.
(A) An alarm user must:
(1) Maintain the alarm site and the alarm system in a manner that minimizes or eliminates false alarms;
(2) Make reasonable efforts to have a responder to the alarm system’s location within twenty (20) minutes of the law enforcement agency’s request to:
(a) Deactivate an alarm system;
(b) Provide access to the alarm site; or
(c) Provide alternative security for the alarm site;
(3) Not activate an alarm system for any reason other than an occurrence of an event that the alarm system was intended to report.
(B) An alarm user must adjust the mechanism or cause the mechanism to be adjusted so that an alarm signal audible on the exterior of an alarm site will sound for no longer than ten (10) minutes after being activated.
(C) An alarm user must have an alarm installation company inspect the alarm system after three (3) false alarms in one (1) year. The Alarm Administrator may waive a required inspection if it determines that a false alarm(s) could not have been related to a defect or malfunction in the alarm system. After five (5) false alarms within one (1) year, the alarm user must have an alarm installation company modify the alarm system to be more false alarm resistant or provide additional user training as appropriate.
(D) An alarm user may not use automatic voice dialers.
(E) An alarm user must maintain at each alarm site a set of written operating instructions for each alarm system.
(F) It is unlawful to violate the duties of an alarm user. (Ord. 18-02 § 5, 2018.)