§ 3-1. Applicability.  


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  • This chapter is intended to regulate the activities and responsibilities of those persons who purchase, lease or rent monitoring alarm systems, devices or services. It is further intended to encourage the improvement in reliability of these systems, devices and services to insure that Police Department personnel will not be unduly diverted from responding to actual criminal activity as a result of responding to false alarms. This chapter specifically encompasses burglary, robbery and commercial panic alarms, both audible and inaudible (silent). The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to audible alarms affixed to motor vehicles, audible fire alarms, medical alert devices, residential panic alarms and alarm systems that are operated by the City, County, State or Federal Government and installed on premises which such entity occupies or uses for governmental purposes.

(Ord. No. 2993, § 1, 6-14-16)