2003-09-08 Regular Meeting, Public Hearing and Workshop Meeting

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e e (c) No holdup alarm shall include any deyice which can cause actiyation inadvertently; and any holdup alarm shall be designed so that it may be activated only by intentional and deliberate human action; (d) No person shall use or permit the use of any telephone device or telephone attachment which automatically selects any telephone . line leading into the communication center of the city police department or city fire department or any number leading into the offices of the city and then transmits any pre-recorded message or signal; (e) No person shall use or permit the use of any system which gives notification of the actiyation of the alarm system directly to the city police department, city fire department or other offices of the city by any means other than live human voice; and (t) The chief of police and the fire chief may set reasonable standards and procedures to be followed by any alarm system business or telephone answering service when giving notice to their respective department of activation of an alarm system. Such standards and procedures shall be set out in writing and made available to any person requesting same. Sec. 30-42. Determinatio.n of false alarm; rebuttable presumption For the purpose of this ordinance, there is a rebuttal presumption that the following determinations made by the chief of police or by the police department officer on the scene of the premises reporting an alarm signal are correct: (a) There is no eyidence of a crime or other activity that would warrant a call for immediate police or fire assistance at the premises; (b) No individual who was on or near the premises or who has viewed a video communication from the premises called for a police or fire department dispatch or verified a need for an immediate emergency response; and (c) There is no evidence that violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary . circumstances caused the activation of the alarm. Sec. 30-43. False activation prohibited; exceptions: No person shall knowingly, intentionally or with reckless disregard activate an alarm system for any purpose other than an emergency or threat of emergency of the kind for which the alarm system was designed.to give notice; proyided, however, it shall be an affirmative defense to prosecution under this section that the alarm system was activated solely for the purpose of testing the system and the person who tested the alarm system took reasonable precautions to yoid any request bein~ made to the city to respond to such