§ 89-5. Automatic dial alarms.

A. 

No automatic dial alarm may be installed after the effective date of this chapter without the prior approval of the appropriate administrator. Within six months after the effective date of this chapter, all automatic dial alarms presently in use shall be reprogrammed to dial a designated number within the Police or Fire Department. The automatic dial alarm shall be regulated so as not to repeat the message more than two times. Service for having automatic dial alarms reprogrammed and regulated shall be at the expense of the user.

B. 

The Chief of Police, or his or her designee, may adopt, publish and amend, from time to time, rules and regulations for the Police Department's direct monitoring of automatic dial alarm systems to, and the use by owners and occupants of, residential and commercial buildings, and at such owners' and occupants' cost. Such regulations shall include the collection procedures for the monthly, quarterly and/or annual monitoring fee paid by the user to the Police Department, which monitoring fee shall equal $10 per month for one-family to four-family residential buildings and $12 per month for all other buildings. The provisions of § 89-11 shall expressly apply to this subsection.

Added 6-3-2013 by Ord. No. 2013-156; amended 8-21-2017 by Ord. No. 2018-4