[Adopted 10-3-2007 by Ord. No. 79-2007]
The purpose of this article is to provide minimum standards
to ensure a reasonable degree of reliability for emergency services
communications from within certain buildings and structures within
the City to and from emergency communications centers. It is the responsibility
of the emergency service provider to get the signal to and from the
building site.
A minimum average signal strength of four micro-volts (-95 dBm)
as received by the City's police dispatch center and the appropriate
emergency service dispatch centers which are providing fire and emergency
medical protection services to the building; (-95 dBm equates to 24
dBu at VHF, -33 dBu at UHF and -38 dBu at 88 MHz).
If amplification is used in the system, all FCC authorization
must be obtained prior to use of the system. A copy of these authorizations
shall be provided to the City.
Annual tests will be conducted by the City's Telecommunications
Unit or appropriate emergency services department. If communications
appear to have degraded or if the tests fail to demonstrate adequate
system performance, the owner of the building or structure is required
to remedy the problem and restore the system in a manner consistent
with the original approval criteria in order to obtain a final inspection
of occupancy. The retesting will be done at no expense to the City
or the appropriate emergency services departments as required in the
original testing procedures.