All alarm systems installed within the City or attached to the City's public safety communications center shall be designed to operate in a manner which will not create a hazard to person or property, result in electrical interference or become a nuisance to the neighborhood area.
Upon notification by the City's Police Department that an audible alarm is activated, the permittee, his representative or his alarm agent shall immediately proceed to silence the alarm, and the silencing shall be finished within 30 minutes. Alternatively, the alarm system may be equipped with an automatic shutoff device which shall silence the alarm within 30 minutes, thus eliminating the need for a personal response as otherwise required by this section. Any alarm system that does not meet the silencing requirements of this section shall be considered to be a false alarm, and the penalty provisions of § 88-21 shall apply.
Each alarm business, alarm agent or permittee shall display to the Police Chief, when requested, his record of inspection or repair of an installed alarm system.
Each alarm business, alarm agent or permittee which installs or services an alarm system shall clearly instruct the operators of the alarm systems in the proper use and operation of the alarm system as frequently as necessary, especially in those factors which can cause false alarms.
No person shall use or operate, attempt to use or operate or cause to be used or operated or arrange, adjust, program or otherwise provide or install any device or combination of devices that will, upon activation, either mechanically, electronically or by other automatic means initiate the intrastate calling, dialing or connection to any telephone number assigned to any subscriber by a public telephone company, without the prior written consent of such subscriber. The term "telephone number" includes any additional numbers assigned by a public utility company engaged in the business of providing communication services and facilities to be used by means of a rotary or other system to connect with the subscriber to such primary number when the primary telephone number is in use. In no case will the prerecorded message from such reporting telephone terminate at any City-owned facility unless such message emanates from a permittee.
It is unlawful to install on the exterior or interior of a building an intrusion-detection device or burglar alarm system which, upon actuation, emits a sound exceeding 85 decibels (when measured from outside the premises), which is similar to sirens in use on emergency vehicles or in vehicles used for civil defense purposes.
No person shall connect or continue to have connected any burglary, robbery, fire or medical alarm system to the City public safety communications center or other City communications center unless the alarm system complies with all requirements of this chapter.