8.15.030 False Alarm Response and Malicious False Alarm – Penalties.
For a False Alarm Response by police or fire personnel, the city shall assess monetary penalties to the subscriber as follows:
(1) For False Alarm Response to premises at which three (3) or fewer False Alarms have occurred in the immediately preceding one (1) year period, a warning shall be issued to the Subscriber.
(2) Any Subscriber whose Alarm System produces a False Alarm and requests a fourth False Alarm Response to the premises within the immediately preceding one (1) year period shall be deemed to have committed a Class 3 civil infraction and shall be assessed a monetary penalty in accordance with PCC 1.02.020.
(3) Any Subscriber whose Alarm System produces a False Alarm and requests a fifth False Alarm Response to the premises within the immediately preceding one (1) year period shall be deemed to have committed a Class 2 civil infraction and shall be assessed a monetary penalty in accordance with PCC 1.02.020.
(4) Any Subscriber whose Alarm System produces a False Alarm and requests a sixth or subsequent False Alarm Response to the premises within the immediately preceding one (1) year period shall be deemed to have committed a Class 1 civil infraction and shall be assessed a monetary penalty in accordance with PCC 1.02.020.
(5) Any Subscriber who causes a Malicious False Alarm shall be deemed to have committed a Class 1 civil infraction and shall be assessed a monetary penalty in accordance with PCC 1.02.020. (Ord. 22-15 §3, 2022; Ord. 97-4 §2, 1997; Ord. 87-28 §7, 1987; Ord. 82-49 §1, 1982; Ord. 81-28 §1, 1981).