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1. Charter
2. Title 1 General Administration
3. Title 2 Government Organization
4. Title 3 Revenue and Taxation
5. Title 4 Licenses and Permits
1. Chapter 4-1 General Licensing Provisions
2. Chapter 4-2 Beverages License
3. Chapter 4-3 Auctioneer License
4. Chapter 4-4 Building Contractor License
5. Chapter 4-5 Circus, Carnival, and Menagerie License
6. Chapter 4-6 Contractor in the Public Right-of-Way License
7. Chapter 4-7 Dog License
8. Chapter 4-8 Electrical Contractor Registration
9. Chapter 4-9 Food Service Establishment and Food Vending Machine License (Repealed)
10. Chapter 4-10 Itinerant Merchant License
11. Chapter 4-11 Mall Permits and Leases
12. Chapter 4-12 Repealed
13. Chapter 4-13 Mechanical Contractor License
14. Chapter 4-14 Mobile Home Park Permit and Mobile Home Installer's License
15. Chapter 4-15 Plumbing Contractor and Apprentice Plumber License
16. »Chapter 4-16 Police Alarm Systems
17. Chapter 4-17 Secondhand Dealer and Pawnbroker License
18. Chapter 4-18 Street, Sidewalk, and Public Property Use Permits
19. Chapter 4-19 Taxi Driver License (Repealed)
20. Chapter 4-20 Fees
21. Chapter 4-21 Sign Contractor License
22. Chapter 4-22 Elevator, Dumbwaiter, Materials Lift, Escalator, and Moving Walk License
23. Chapter 4-23 Neighborhood Parking Zone Permits
24. Chapter 4-24 Parks and Open Space Parking Permits
25. Chapter 4-25 Fire Contractor License
26. Chapter 4-26 Cemetery Permits
27. Chapter 4-27 News Box Leases and Regulation
6. Title 5 General Offenses
7. Title 6 Health, Safety, and Sanitation
8. Title 7 Regulation of Vehicles, Pedestrians, and Parking
9. Title 8 Parks, Open Space, Streets, and Public Ways
10. Title 9 Land Use Regulation
11. Title 10 Structures
12. Title 11 Utilities and Airport
13. Title 12 Human Rights
14. Title 13 Elections and Campaign Disclosures and Activities
15. Title 14 Arts
16. Index
17. Ordinances Pending Codification

Page Contents

• 4-16-1 Legislative Intent
• 4-16-2 Definitions
• 4-16-3 Alarm Business Registration Required
• 4-16-4 Length of Audible Signal
• 4-16-5 Intentional False Alarms Unlawful
• 4-16-6 Responsibilities of a Police Alarm Owner
• 4-16-7 Right of Inspection

Chapter 4-16: Plumbing Contractor and Apprentice Plumber License³³

4-16-1 Legislative Intent.

The purpose of this chapter is to reduce the frequency of false alarms and to provide the police department with alarm company contact information by establishing standards and controls for various types of alarm devices.

4-16-2 Definitions.

The following terms used in this chapter have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Alarm" means any activation of a police alarm device.

"Alarm business" or "burglar alarm business" means a person in the business of installing, servicing, or monitoring police alarm devices at remote alarm sites owned by other persons.

"Audible alarm" means any police alarm device designed to produce an audible signal at the property where it is installed.

"Police alarm device" means any device that is designed or used to signal the occurrence of a burglary, robbery, or other criminal offense. This term does not include an alarm affixed to an automobile.

4-16-3 Alarm Business Registration Required.

(a) No person shall conduct an alarm business within the city without first registering the business with the city manager on forms provided by the manager. These forms may require the name and address of the alarm business, together with the telephone numbers which the manager may use to contact the business to notify it of an alarm malfunction, and to contact responsible parties if response to the location of the alarm is required.

(b) No fee shall be charged for a registration issued under this chapter.

4-16-4 Length of Audible Signal.

Every audible alarm shall incorporate a mechanism that will cause the audible signal to terminate automatically within ten minutes of the time it is activated.

4-16-5 Intentional False Alarms Unlawful.

No person shall intentionally cause the transmission or report the activation of an alarm such person knows to be false.

4-16-6 Responsibilities of a Police Alarm Owner.

No police alarm owner or user shall fail to:

(a) Inspect, maintain, and repair a police alarm device to insure its proper operation.

(b) Educate and train all employees and other persons who may in the course of their activities be in a position to accidentally activate a police alarm device.

(c) Assure that a responsible person responds to every activation of a police alarm device within twenty minutes of being requested to respond by the city's police communications center.

4-16-7 Right of Inspection.

The city manager may inspect any police alarm device at any time to determine whether it is being used in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.

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³³ Adopted by Ordinance No. 4760. Amended by Ordinance No. 7312.

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