No person, firm or corporation, either as principal officer, agent, servant or employee, shall possess or operate an alarm system designed with the intent of eliciting a police response without first obtaining a permit for such alarm system. Provided, the provisions of this section are not applicable to local alarm systems affixed to motor vehicles.
Every alarm user shall obtain an alarm user's permit from the Chief of Police within 30 days after the effective date of this ordinance or prior to use of an alarm system. Alarm permits are non-transferable. Each building, structure or facility maintaining one or more alarm systems must obtain an alarm user's permit. Each permit shall bear the signature of the Chief of Police and shall be physically upon the premises using the alarm system and shall be available for inspection by the Chief of Police, his designate or any officer. An alarm user which is a governmental political unit shall be subject to this Ordinance; but such governmental unit shall not be subject to any fees or the imposition of any penalty as provided herein.
(a) 
Any seller, vendor or installer of any type of alarm system shall obtain a permit from the Chief of Police prior to the selling or installing of any alarm system within the City.
(b) 
The Chief of Police or his designate may require inspection of any and all alarm systems installed within the City.
(c) 
Local alarm systems shall be equipped to automatically discontinue emitting an audible sound within 15 minutes after activation.
(d) 
The Chief of Police or his designate shall have the right to discontinue any alarm emitting an audible sound.
(e) 
Alarm users shall submit with their permit application to the Chief of Police a release of liability releasing the City, any police officer or any other City employee from damages caused either personally or to any property when in response to the activation of such alarm system and also release the City, any police officer or other City employee from damages from disconnecting, resetting or not resetting the alarm system.
It shall be unlawful for any person or business to own or operate any burglary, robbery, fire, medical, or panic alarm system deemed to be a nuisance. Nuisance alarm systems shall be defined as follows:
(a) 
False Alarms. Any alarm which elicits a response from the Police and/or Fire Departments more than six times in any twelve-month period when no emergency exists. Exempt from this definition are newly installed systems, which shall receive a grace period of 30 days or four false alarms, whichever occurs first; alarm signals caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances beyond control of the owner or operator; alarm systems owned or operated by any governmental political unit.
(b) 
Direct Telephone Alarms. Any alarm which is programmed to automatically dial any telephone number, listed or unlisted, directly into any City building for the purpose of transmitting a voice recording of an emergency message.
(c) 
Disturbing Alarms. Any alarm which emits an audible signal which is not automatically discontinued within 15 minutes of activation.
It shall be unlawful for any alarm user to fail to disconnect any direct telephone alarm as defined in Section 10-504 within 72 hours of receipt of written notice from the Police Department that such a programmed connection exists.
It shall be unlawful for any alarm user to fail to disconnect or modify any disturbing alarms as defined in Section 10-504 within 72 hours of receipt of written notice from the Police Department that such a condition exists.
At the time of the sixth false alarm in any twelve-month period, the City shall notify the responsible party by first class mail of such occurrence and that additional false alarms shall require the payment of fees as per Section 10-509 of this ordinance. Such written notification shall be assumed to have been delivered three days after mailing.
The responsible party shall be the resident for a residential alarm system and the business owner or manager for a business alarm system, regardless of whether such system is owned, leased, rented or otherwise controlled.
(a) 
Any alarm system which has recorded more than six false alarms within any twelve-month period shall be subject to the following fees:
(1) 
Seven through 10: $25 each false alarm.
(2) 
Eleven through 14: $50 each false alarm.
(3) 
Fifteen through 18: $75 each false alarm.
(4) 
Nineteen and each subsequent: $100 each alarm.
(b) 
The payment of the fee provided for shall be submitted to the City of Mission Woods within 10 days of receiving notice that such fee is due.
An alarm user who desires to appeal a fee imposed by Section 10-509 shall submit a written request for a hearing to the Chief of Police, who shall notify the Governing Body. The Governing Body shall meet at a regularly scheduled Council meeting and consider the appeal.
There is hereby established the position of Alarm Coordinator. The Alarm Coordinator shall:
(a) 
Maintain records necessary to carry out the terms of this ordinance; such records shall be confidential.
(b) 
Make notifications as outlined In Section 10-507.
(c) 
Establish, distribute and enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary for implementation of this ordinance, and make same available upon request.
(d) 
Determine which alarms constitute false alarms as defined in Section 10-504.
As used in this ordinance, "Chief of Police" shall mean the official designated by the City Council as the Chief of Police for the City at the Council meeting in May of each year and, if not so designated, such term shall mean the person having the superintending control over the law enforcement authority employed by the City for the year,
Any person convicted of a violation of any provisions of or failing to comply with any of the mandatory requirements of this ordinance shall be guilty of a public offense and punished by a fine of not more than $500 or by imprisonment not to exceed 30 days or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each person shall be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion of which any violation of any provision of the City ordinances is committed, continued or permitted by any such person.