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.
The provisions of this article shall apply to:
A. New buildings greater than 50,000 square feet;
B. Existing buildings over 50,000 square feet when modifications, alterations
or repairs exceed 50% of the value of the existing building(s) and
are made within any twelve-month period or the usable floor area is
expanded or enlarged by more than 50%; and
C. All sublevels, regardless of the occupancy, over 10,000 square feet.
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. The retesting will be done at
no expense to the City or the appropriate emergency services department
as required in the original testing procedures.
Police and fire personnel, after providing reasonable notice
to the owner or his representative, shall have the right to enter
onto the property to conduct field testing to be certain the required
level of radio coverage is present. Certificates of occupancy may
be denied for new and existing buildings for failure to comply with
these requirements.
[Amended 2-12-2020 by Ord. No. 2020.01.08-001]
Any person, persons, firm, corporation or partnership who or
which shall violate any provision of this article shall be guilty
of a violation punishable by a fine as provided in the City Fine Schedule.
Each day that the violation continues to exist shall constitute a
separate offense.