HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD-25-92 Establish False Alarm Fee for False Alarms Connected to Orange Police DeptORDINANCE NO. 25-
92 AN ORDINANCE OP THE CITY COUNCIL
OP THE CITY OP ORANGE ESTABLISHING
A PALSE ALARM PEB POR ALARMS
CONNECTED TO THE ORANGE POLICE
DEPARTMENT.WHEREAS, false alarms have become a significant drain
on police manpower:
and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that it is in the
pUblic interest, both as an incentive to proper maintenance
and operation of such alarms and to partially offset the cost to
the City of responding to multiple false alarms, to charge a
false alarm fee in circumstances where multiple false alarms
emanate from the same alarm system:
and WHEREAS, charges have been made in the functioning of
the alarm system due to the moving of police department
headquarters and other operational factors which should now be reflected
in code modifications for purposes of
clarity.NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City ofOrangeordainsas
follows:Section
I:Section 9.04.060 is hereby amended to read as
follows:SECTION 9.04.060 - Warninq Letters - Service Fees - Termination of Police
Service Violation of
any of the following items may result in discontinuance of
Police response to any alarm signal received by the PoliceDepartment, and may not be reinstated until authorized by the
Chief of Police.A. False
Alarms 1. Warning
Letters. If an alarm system emits a false alarm, a
warning letter will be issued by the Police Department. The
second false alarm within a three hundred sixty-five (
365) day period from the first false alarm will also
cause a warning letter to be issued by the Police Department
which contains information pertaining to this Section
controlling false alarms and service fee structure.2.
Service Fees. The third and any subsequent false alarm originating
from any premises within the three hundred sixty-
five (365) day period, as stipulated in Subsection
Al) of this Section, will result in a service fee beingimposeduponthealarmuserwhichmustbepaidwithinthirty30) days after billing. The service fee shall be in the
amount of $75 on the third false alarm, $100 on the fourth
false alarm and $125 on each subsequent false alarm, or as
the Council may otherwise establish by resolution from time
to time.
3. Exceptions:
a) If the user shows that any false alarm was t
the result of conditions beyond his control
and not the result of negligence of himself
or any of his employees and that if the
result of any defect in the alarm system he
neither knew of, nor in the exercise of due
care should have known of such a defect, such
false alarm shall not be deemed a "false
alarm" as used in the section.
b) New alarm users, and current users, upon
proof of upgrading or replacing in-
service alarms, will be permitted a thirty (30)
days adjustment period to correct
mechanical problems before the provisions of Al and
A2 of this section take effect subject to
the
following:1. The thirty (30) day adjustment
period shall start the day the alarm
becomes operational and testing
begins.2. No more than three (3) false
alarms shall be permitted during the
above thirty (30) day period. The
provisions of the Al and A2 of this section
shall commence with the fourth (4th)
false alarm during this thirty (30)
day
period.B. Intentional
Activations 1. The intentional activation of an alarm system by
any person, when a hazardous condition does not
exist,shall be cause for immediate discontinuance of
Police response. Hazardous conditions justifying
activation of an alarm are to include only those which
the person's alarm system was specifically designed
to detect or to alert the Police
Department.C. Failure to pay any false alarm service Fee under
this Chapter within 30 days after
billing.D. Non-compliance with the Business and Professions Code
of the state of California as it pertains to
alarm users contracting with unlicensed
alarm operators.E. Non-compliance with the provisions of sections 9.
04.030A or 9.04.030E
of this
Chapter.section II:Chapter 9.04 is hereby amended to
substitute the phrase Non-residential Alarm System" for
the phrase "Commercial Alarm System" and the word "Non-
residential" for the
in any variants to such phrase, wherever they occur in said
Chapter.
section III:
section 9.04.050 is hereby repealed and deleted in its
entirety.
section IV:
A summary of this Ordinance shall be published and a
certified copy of the full text of this Ordinance shall be posted
in the Office of the City Clerk at least five (5) days prior to
the city Council meeting at which this Ordinance is to be
adopted. A summary of this Ordinance shall also be published
once within fifteen (15) days after this Ordinance's passage in a
newspaper of general circulation, published, and circulated in
the City of Orange. The City Clerk shall post in the Office of
the City Clerk a certified copy of the full text of such adopted
Ordinance along with the names of those city Council members
voting for and against the Ordinance in accordance with
Government Code section 36933. This Ordinance shall take effect
thirty (30) days from and after the date of its final passage.
ADOPTED this 27th day of October
ATTEST:
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Clerk STATE
OF CALIFORNIA)COUNTY
OF ORANGE )CITY
OF ORANGE )I,
MARILYN J. JENSEN, City Clerk of the City of Orange,California,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced
at the regular meeting of the City Council held on the
20th day of October ,1992, and thereafter at the regular
meeting of said city Council duly held on the 27th day of
October ,1992, was duly passed and adopted by the following
vote, to wit:AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
COUNCIL
MEMBERS:COUNCIL
MEMBERS:NONE STEINER,
BARRERA, MAYOR BEYER, COONTZ,SPURGEON
COUNCIL
MEMBERS: NONE 0 ,,.-) /
J/7~x- (;r.(~;;{; ~ ~ . ';/f->! Vif.V!/vCity Clerk
Of the'Cit~ of orange RDH:dg
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