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Fire Dept.
Bremerton Sun
ORdINANCE'NO.
AN ORDINANCE amending Section 50 of Ordinance
No. 325 making it unlawful to give, signal,
transmit or cause to give, signal or transmit
a false fire alarm.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
S~CTION 1. Ordinance No. 325, Section 50 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 50. (a) For the purposes of this Section a
Fire alarm shall be deemed and construed as being any act as follows:
The giving,' signaling or transmission to any
public fire station, or company or to any officer
or employee thereof, whether by telephone, spoken
work or otherwise, information to the effect that
there is a fire at or near the place indicated by
the person giving, signaling, or transmitting
· such information.
(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to give, signal,
or transmit or for any person to cause or permit to
be given, signaled, or transmitted, in any manner
any false alarm.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to tamper with
or maliciously injure any fire alarm equipment main-
tained for the purpose of transmitting fire alarms
to the fire department.
(d) Nothing in this Section shall prohibit the sounding
of any such signal essential for the carrying on of
any fire drill. The Chief may require that he be
notified in advance when such signal will be sounded.
(e) The City Treasurer shall charge and collect from the
person having or maintaining an audible type fire
alarm on premises owned or occupied by him, fees as fol-
lows:
(1) For a fire department response to premises at
which no.other false alarm has occurred within the
preceding six months' period, hereinafter referred
to as a "first response," no fee shall be charged,
but the person having or maintaining such fire alarm
shall, within three working days after notice by the
fire department to do so, make a written report to
the Fire Chief setting forth the cause of such false
alarm, the corrective action taken, whether such alarm
has been inspected by an authorized serviceman, and such
other information as the Fire Chief may reasonably
require to determine the cause of such false alarm and
prescribe corrective action necessary.
(2) For a fire department response to premises within
six months after a first response, no fee shall be charged,
but a written report shall be required as for a first
response and the Fire Chief shall be authorized to in-
spect the alarm system at such premises, prescribe
necessary corrective action, and shall give notice
to the person having or maintaining such alarm
system to the conditions and requirements of this
section.
(3) For a response to premises within six months
after a second response, and for all succeeding
responses within six months of the last response,
a fee of twenty-five dollars shall be charged,
and if such third false alarm or any such succeeding
false alarm is as a result of failure to take neces-
sary corrective action prescribed by the Fire Chief,
the Fire Chief may order the disconnection of such
alarm system until such corrective action is taken;
provided, that no disconnection shall be ordered
as to any premises required by law to have an alarm
system in operation.
(f) Any person violating or failing to comply with any
of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall
be punished by a fine in the sum of not exceeding
three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the
city jail not exceeding ninety days, or both such
fine and imprisonment.
APPROVED by the City Council on first reading this
J/~ day of ~?~;~ , 1978.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton,
signed by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication
of such passage this I~~ day of ~k , 1978.
"GLENN K. JARSTAD~ Mayor
ATTEST:
KA~HLESN k. ~ANDIO -, City Clerk