HomeMy WebLinkAbout3177 AN ORDINANCE amending Section 4 of
Ordinance No. 3159 regarding regulation
of privately owned burglary alarms.
THE CITY OF BREMERTON DOES ORDAIN:-
SECTION 1: Section 4 of Ordinance No. 3159 is hereby
amended to read as follows:
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,
hereinafter referred to as a "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 ~erviceman, and such other information
as the Chief of Police may reasonably require to determine
the cause of such false alarm and prescribe corrective action
necessary.
(2) For a 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 response to premises within six months after
a second response, and for all succeeding responses within
six months of the last res?onse, 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.
APPROVED by the City Council on the first reading
this,~~
day of November, 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 ~TT~
day of Nove~er,
1974.
GLENN K.. JARSTA ,~ayor
ATTEST:
G. ~ Clerk
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