HomeMy WebLinkAbout3159 AN ORDINANCE relating to the regulation of
privately owned burglary and/or robbery
alarms, describing offenses in connection
therewith, and prescribing fees and penalties.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:
Section 1. It is unlawful to have or maintain on any
premise an audible type burglary and/or robbery alarm unless there
is posted at the main entrance to such premise a prominent notice
of the telephone number or numbers at which the person or persons
authorized to enter such premise and turn off such alarm can be
reached at all times. It is unlawful for any such person to fail
to appear and turn off any such alarm within one hour after being
notified by the police to do so.
Section 2. It is unlawful for anyone to activate any
robbery or burglary alarm for the purpose of summoning police
except in the event of an actual or attempted burglary or robbery,
or in the reasonable belief that such is occurring. It is unlawful
to notify police of an activated alarm having knowledge that such
activation was apparently caused by an electrical or other malfunction
of the alarm system without at the same time to notify the police of
such apparent malfunction.
Section 3. Definitions:
A. False Alarm: False alarm shall mean the activation
of a burglary and/or robbery alarm at a time when no burglary or
robbery is being committed or attempted to be committed.
B. Person: Person shall mean any person, firm, partner-
ship, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind.
Section 4. The City Treasurer shall charge and collect
from the person having or maintaining an audible type burglary and/or
robbery alarm on premises owned or occupied by him, fees as follows:
(1) For a police response to premises at which no other
false alarm has occurred within the preceding six months' period,
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hereinafter referred to as an "first response", no fee shall be charged,
but the person having or maintaining such burglary and/or robbery alarm
shall, within three working days after notice by the Police Department
to do so, make a written report to the Chief of Police 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 Chief of Police may reasonably require to deter-
mine the cause of such false alarm and prescribe corrective action
necessary.
(2) For a second police 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
Chief of Police shall be authorized to inspect or cause to be inspected
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 third response to premises within six
months after such a second response, and for all succeeding responses
within six months of the last response, a fee of twenty-five dollars
($25.00) shall be charged, and if such third false alarm or any such
succeeding false alarm is as a result of failure to take necessary
corrective action prescribed by the Chief of Police, the Chief of
Police 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.
Section 5. It is unlawful for any person having or
operating a privately owned fire alarm system to have direct electrical,
mechanical, telephonic or other type of connection with the facilities
of any office,'branch, department or agency of the Fire Department
unless such person has and maintains a Central Station Protective
Signaling System meeting the standards of the National Fire Protection
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Association dated June, 1956 (C.F. 234509), or for any person having
or operating a privately owned burglary and/or robbery alarm system
to have or maintain any equipment or device at or any direct
connection with the facilities of any office, branch, department or
agency of the Police Department; provided that nothing herein shall
prohibit the installation or use of regular private or business
telephone lines for the reporting by any person of a fire, burglary
or robbery.
Section 6. Anyone convicted of a violation of or
failure to comply with any of the provisions of this ordinance shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and is subject to a fine of not more than
fifty dollars ($50.00).
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading this
day of September, 1974.
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//~ay of September, 1974.
ATTEST:
G. ~. YE~ON, SR., City Clerk
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