[Adopted 4-7-1986 (Ch. 13, Art. III, of the 2007 Code)]
[Amended 9-26-2005]
For the third and successive Fire & Rescue Department response to a false alarm or false activation during a calendar year, the owner shall pay a penalty set forth in Chapter A401, Master Fine Schedule. False alarms are those activated by malicious intent or by alarm detector/panel malfunction. No person shall reset a fire alarm or sprinkler system, that has caused the Fire & Rescue Department to respond, without approval of the Fire & Rescue Department approval shall be considered a false alarm, and shall be penalized as such.
[Added 12-1-1986; amended 3-2-1998; 9-26-2005]
When City ordinance, the National Fire Prevention Code, or other regulation requires that a building or structure be equipped with a fire alarm, such system shall include approved supervisory equipment, which shall transmit an alarm to an approved receiver. Such supervision shall be by connection to a private alarm station that has been approved as a message monitoring service by Underwriters' Laboratories, Inc., or Factual Mutual Insurance Company and accepted by the Chief of the Department.
[Added 9-21-1987; amended 2-23-1998; 3-2-1998; 9-26-2005]
No fire alarm system, once installed and operational, shall be modified or extended without the prior approval of the Fire & Rescue Department. Neither shall such a system be removed, rendered inoperable, disconnected from the supervisory system, interrupted or tested in any manner without the prior knowledge of the Fire & Rescue Department.
[Added 3-2-1998; amended 9-26-2005]
The Chief of the Department is authorized to promulgate all reasonable rules, procedures and documentation, not inconsistent with this article, to carry out the purposes and provisions thereof.