City of Crystal Lake, IL
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2023-12-19
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Part II, General Legislation
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Chapter 154 Alarms
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Article III False Alarms
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 3 Administrative Adjudication
- Ch 5 Audit
- Ch 11 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 18 City Council
- Ch 22 Clerk
- Ch 26 Comprehensive Plan
- Ch 31 Delinquent Accounts
- Ch 33 Divisions and Departments
- Ch 39 Elections
- Ch 44 Ethics
- Ch 51 Government-Access Programming
- Ch 55 Insurance
- Ch 77 Manager
- Ch 82 Mayor
- Ch 84 Meetings
- Ch 89 Officers and Employees
- Ch 93 Official Map
- Ch 102 Purchasing and Contributions
- Ch 115 Salaries
- Ch 118 Signing Authority
- Ch 121 Treasurer
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 145 Adopt-A-Highway Program
- Ch 146 Adult Businesses
- Ch 150 Aircraft
- Ch 154 Alarms
- Ch 154 Art III False Alarms
- § 154-19 False alarm determination; response.
- § 154-20 False alarm fees.
- § 154-21 No warranties or representations.
- § 154-22 City not an insurer.
- Ch 158 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 162 Amusement Devices
- Ch 166 Animals
- Ch 170 (Reserved)
- Ch 175 Bicycles
- Ch 181 Boats and Boating
- Ch 187 Building Code
- Ch 192 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 195 Cable and Video Services
- Ch 198 (Reserved)
- Ch 203 Tobacco Sales
- Ch 209 (Reserved)
- Ch 216 Curfew
- Ch 222 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 226 Drugs and Drug Paraphernalia
- Ch 228 Economic Development Incentive Program
- Ch 230 Electrical Code
- Ch 235 Emergency Services
- Ch 237 Energy Conservation Code
- Ch 239 Existing Building Code
- Ch 241 Fees
- Ch 246 (Reserved)
- Ch 247 Fighting
- Ch 248 Fines
- Ch 251 Fire Code
- Ch 253 Fireworks and Explosives
- Ch 258 Fishing
- Ch 264 Fuel Gas Code
- Ch 268 Gambling
- Ch 269 Gangs
- Ch 274 Garage Sales
- Ch 280 Garbage, Rubbish and Refuse
- Ch 286 Graffiti
- Ch 288 Handbills and Posters
- Ch 295 Historic Preservation
- Ch 302 (Reserved)
- Ch 317 Junk
- Ch 322 Lawns, Watering of
- Ch 326 (Reserved)
- Ch 329 Liquor Licenses
- Ch 334 Litter
- Ch 335 Massage Establishments
- Ch 336 Mechanical Code
- Ch 343 Minors
- Ch 351 Newspaper Vending Devices
- Ch 358 Noise
- Ch 364 Nuisances
- Ch 370 Obscenity
- Ch 379 (Reserved)
- Ch 381 Parking
- Ch 383 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 385 Peddlers, Solicitors and Transient Vendors
- Ch 392 Plumbing Code
- Ch 397 Pollution
- Ch 400 Property Maintenance Code
- Ch 408 Raffles
- Ch 413 Real Estate Advertising
- Ch 417 Recycling
- Ch 422 Residential Code
- Ch 424 Resource Conservation
- Ch 425 Retail Theft
- Ch 427 Rights-Of-Way, Use of
- Ch 428 Rights-Of-Way: Construction of Small Wireless Facilities
- Ch 429 Roller Skates and Skateboards
- Ch 435 Sewer Use
- Ch 440 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 446 Smoking
- Ch 451 Snow Removal
- Ch 453 Special Events
- Ch 455 Storage, Outdoor
- Ch 458 (Reserved)
- Ch 463 Tattooing and Body Piercing
- Ch 467 Taxation
- Ch 470 Taxicabs
- Ch 476 Towing
- Ch 481 Trespassing
- Ch 492 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 496 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 500 Vehicles, Cruising
- Ch 504 Vehicles, Delivery
- Ch 508 Vehicles, Inoperable
- Ch 515 Water and Sewer
- Ch 521 Weapons
- Ch 526 Weeds and Nuisance Greenery Control
- Part III, Land Development
- Ch 570 Parking Lot, Driveway and Sidewalk Construction
- Ch 575 Planning and Development
- Ch 585 (Reserved)
- Ch 593 Illicit Discharges and Connections
- Ch 595 Stormwater Management
- Ch 600 (Reserved)
- Ch 615 Trees
- Ch 630 Watershed
- Ch 650 Unified Development Ordinance
- Appendix
- Ch A700 Franchise Agreements
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
A.
For the purpose of this section, there shall be a rebuttable presumption
that a fire alarm or security system activation was a false alarm
where the City determines that:
(1)
There is no evidence of a fire or other smoke, noxious gas or high
temperature on the protected premises that would warrant a call for
immediate emergency response; and
(2)
There is no evidence that violent weather conditions, electrical
power failures, transmission line malfunctions, or other extraordinary
circumstances beyond the control of the alarm user caused the activation
of the alarm.
B.
Response to a trouble fire alarm received through a central station.
(1)
If the Crystal Lake Fire Rescue Department responds to a false alarm and it is determined that the cause of the false alarm was the negligence of the alarm user for failing to contact the City's dispatch center regarding work being done on the alarm, the alarm user will be subject to a fine as set forth in Chapter 248, Fines.
(2)
If the Crystal Lake Police Department responds to a false alarm and it is determined that the cause of the false alarm was the negligence of the alarm user for failing to contact the City's dispatch center regarding work being done on the alarm, the alarm user will be subject to a fine as set forth in Chapter 248, Fines.
A false alarm fee is hereby imposed on the responsible party of any alarm system connected to CLWAN, central station or by any other means of notification to reimburse the City for the costs incurred in the response to excessive false alarms. False alarm fees are referenced in Chapter 248, Fines, of the Code of the City of Crystal Lake.
Nothing in this chapter shall constitute a representation or
warranty that the alarm system or the monitoring of the alarm system
will prevent any loss by fire, burglary or otherwise, or that the
system will in all cases provide the protection for which it is installed
or intended. The City makes no representations or warranties, either
express or implied, as to any matter whatsoever, including without
limitation the condition of the equipment, its merchantability or
its fitness for a particular purpose. A subscriber may not rely on
any representation or warranties by the City, express or implied,
and nothing in this chapter or the requirements of this chapter shall
be deemed to create any express or implied warranty.
The City is not an insurer under this chapter and the subscriber
assumes all risk of loss or damage to the subscriber's premises or
contents thereof. The subscriber shall have the right to purchase
whatever insurance the subscriber requires in order to protect its
property and/or person(s) from injury or the commission of any crime.
In addition, this chapter does not create any certainty with regard
to the response time of any fire department or police department should
either or both of these departments be dispatched as a result of a
signal being received by the equipment required by this chapter. Nothing
in this chapter waives or releases any and all statutory or common
law immunities of the City of Crystal Lake which are specifically
reserved.
