(Ord. No. B-762-06(A0610), § 1, 6-21-2010)
(a) 
A person commits an offense if he installs, operates or causes to be operated a monitored or unmonitored alarm system without first obtaining an alarm registration from the alarm administrator. A separate alarm registration is required for each alarm site.
(b) 
The director shall refuse police response to any alarm notification from an alarm site that does not have a valid alarm registration, unless the alarm notification was:
(1) 
A duress alarm;
(2) 
A hold up alarm;
(3) 
A panic alarm; or
(4) 
Reported to a 9-1-1 emergency telephone number or to the police department by a person other than the monitoring company.
(c) 
Upon receipt of a true and completed application form and payment of the applicable nonrefundable fee, the alarm administrator shall issue an alarm registration to an applicant unless the applicant has failed to pay a fee or fine assessed under this article or has had an alarm registration for the alarm site revoked, and the violation causing the revocation has not been corrected.
(d) 
Each alarm registration application must contain the following information:
(1) 
Name, address, and telephone number of the person who will be the alarm registration holder and will be responsible for the proper maintenance and operation of the alarm system and payment of fees assessed under this article;
(2) 
Classification of the alarm site as either residential, commercial, educational, or government;
(3) 
For each alarm system located at the alarm site, the purpose of the alarm system, such as, burglary, duress, hold-up, or panic alarm; and
(4) 
The alarm registration shall contain the names and phone numbers of two people that when notified by the police department will come to the alarm site within 45 minutes, if requested, to terminate the alarm signal and secure the property.
(5) 
Other information required by the director which is necessary for the enforcement of this chapter.
(e) 
Application for an alarm registration under the provisions of this article constitutes a grant of approval to the city to deactivate an alarm system that sounds an alarm signal for longer than 30 minutes.
(f) 
The annual nonrefundable alarm registration fees shall be effective for one calendar year from the date of issuance and renewable annually on that date.
(g) 
All fees and fines owed by an applicant must be paid before an alarm registration may be issued or renewed.
(h) 
An alarm registration cannot be transferred to another person. An alarm registration holder shall inform the alarm administrator of any change that alters any information listed on the registration application within five business days. No fee will be assessed for those changes.
(i) 
A change of alarm user ownership or control of the alarm site shall be cause for a new alarm registration application to be filed for approval by the alarm administrator.
(j) 
Any false statement of a material matter made by an applicant for the purpose of obtaining an alarm registration shall be sufficient cause for refusal to issue a registration.
(Ord. No. B-762-06(A0610), § 1, 6-21-2010)
(a) 
A tenant of an apartment complex shall obtain an alarm registration before operating or causing the operation of an alarm system in the tenant's residential unit alarm site.
(b) 
For purposes of assessing service fees and enforcing this section against an individual residential unit alarm site, the tenant is responsible for payment of service fees for false alarm notifications emitted from the alarm system in the tenant's residential unit.
(c) 
The owner or property manager of an apartment complex shall obtain a separate alarm registration for any alarm system operated in a nonresidential area of the apartment complex including, but not limited to common tenant areas and office, storage and equipment areas.
(Ord. No. B-762-06(A0610), § 1, 6-21-2010; Ord. No. CSO#321-09-2015, § 1, 9-21-2015)
(a) 
Alarm registrations shall be renewed on an annual basis. Alarm registrations expire 12 months from the date of issuance (the "expiration date"). An alarm registration must be renewed by completing an alarm registration application and returning it along with the annual renewal fee, to the alarm administrator prior to the expiration date.
(b) 
The annual renewal fees are as follows:
Residential site—Unmonitored
No Fee
Residential site—Monitored
As set forth in the city fee schedule
Commercial site
As set forth in the city fee schedule
(c) 
The reinstatement fees are as follows:
Residential site—Unmonitored
No Fee
Residential site—Monitored
As set forth in the city fee schedule
Commercial site
As set forth in the city fee schedule
(d) 
No refund of a registration, registration renewal, or registration reinstatement fee will be made.
(e) 
An alarm user shall cancel an alarm registration for any alarm system which is removed from an alarm site or which otherwise ceases to come under the registering requirements of this article. Alarm registration cancellation may be accomplished by returning the alarm registration to the alarm administrator.
(f) 
A registered alarm location that does not have any false alarms within a 12-month period calculated from the date of initial registration will be assessed a renewal fee that is $25.00 less than the alarm registration fee schedule provided in this article.