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Home My WebLink About054-90 Ordinance I I RECORD OF ORDINANCES Dayton Legal Blank Co. Form No. 30043 , 54-90 Passed mm mU.n. mUOn nmnn19. . Ordmance No. m~..nm.m... AN ORDINANCE REPEALING, RECODIFYING CHAPTER 703 OF THE DUBLIN CODIFIED ORDINANCES ~ ENTITLED "ALARM SYSTEMS" WHEREAS~ Chapter 703 of the Dublin Codified Ordinances regulates and controls the installation and use of alarm systems; and WHEREAS ~ the Dublin Police Division has found that Chapter 703 in its present form is unworkable and unenforceable. NOW, THEREFORE~ BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Dublin, State of Ohio, 6 of the elected members concurring that: Section 1. Chapter 703 of the Dublin Codified Ordinances entitled "Alarm Systems" is hereby repealed and recodified as follows. Section 2. DEFINITIONS (a) "Alarm system" means any assembly of equipment and devices which signals so as to be seen or heard outside the protected building or space to indicate the presence of fire, smoke, or the occurrence of robbery, burglary, vandalism or unauthorized intrusion and includes an interconnected alarm system as defined in subsection (b) hereof. (b) "Interconnected alarm system" means an alarm system which directly or indirectly automatically or manually, uses a telephone line or cable line to transmit an alarm or message upon activation of the alarm system. (c) "Local alarm system" means an alarm system that when activated only sounds a horn, bell, buzzer, or other type of audible or visible alarm that is designed to be audible or visible beyond the premises being served, but which does not result in the transmission of a signal to any other location. (d) "Appropriate authority" means the City Manager of the City of Dubl' n, Ohio, or his designee. (e) "Automatic dialing device" means a device which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice, message, or code signal an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response. (f) "Alarm" means an alarm signal transmitted through the Alarm Control Center located at the Central Police Dispatch facility or a phone call forwarded by an alarm company monitoring center, requiring the response of the Dublin Police Division or the appro- priate township Fire Division. "Alarm" shall also include any system which meets the definition in Section 703.01(c) of "Local Alarm System". (g) "False Alarms" are those calls for police or fire service as detail ed in Section 703.01(f), which are erroneously transmitted or sounded due to mechanical or human error. "False Alarms" shall be in two categories; non-chargeable and chargeable. (1) "Non-chargeable False Alarms" shall include those alarms which are transmitted or sounded due to weather conditions, power or telephone outages. Calls made to the Central Police Dispatch facility cancelling the appropriate police or fire service prior to their arrival shall constitute a "non-chargeable false alarm". I RECORD OF ORDINANCES Dayton Legal Blank Co. Form No. 30043 , 54-90 Passedm.m.. 00......19. Ordmance No. mmmoomoom Page Two (2) "Chargeable False Alarms" shall include those alarms which are transmitted or sounded due to human error or equipment .,->.4 malfunctions not included in Section 703.01(g)(1) above. Section 3. ALARM CATEGORY DETERMINATION The responding police or fire personnel shall determine, upon provisions set forth herein, in which category the alarm shall be recorded. Section 4. CHARGEABLE ALARM NOTIFICATION (a) The first two chargeable alarm notifications within any six month period shall be made by the responding personnel through written notice left at the residence or business from which the false alarm originated. Additional chargeable alarm notifications subject to false alarm response payments as detailed in Section 703.99(c) shall be made by ordinary and certified mail sent to the owner or occupant of the residence or business from which the false alarm originated. Section 5. AUTOMATIC RECORDED DIALING DEVICE The programming of any pre-recorded messages shall not be transmitted to any police-fire emergency phone line. (ord. 8-83. Passed 4-18-83) Section 6. EQUIPMENT MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTION OF ALARM SYSTEMS (a) All equipment used in any such alarm system installation shall meet the applicable standards of the Underwriters Laboratories of the United States, Factory Mutual, or the National Fire Protection Association or other recognized industry standard. The owner or installer may be required to submit evidence of the reliability and suitability of the equipment to be installed. (b) The appropriate authority or his designee shall have the authority, at reasonable times and upon oral notice, to enter upon any premises within the City of Dublin, to inspect only the installation and operation of an interconnected alarm system, the purpose of which is to report an emergency to the Police or Fire Division. In the event the premises to be inspected is a private dwelling, such inspection shall only be done between the hours of 8:00 A.M. and 8:00 P.M. and only if the notice is in written form addressed to the owner and presented to a responsible adult. Under this chapter, such residences are only subject to the above inspection after four false alarms have originated from such location. The written notice shall cite the specific false alarm history. Failure to allow reasonable inspection of such alarm system may be grounds for disconnection from an inter- connected alarm system. (c) The appropriate authority or his designee may require that repairs or adjustments be made whenever he has determined that such repain or adjustments may be grounds for disconnection of the alarm system. ( d) All alarm systems shall be installed and maintained with an automa ic cut-off and re-set of the alarm within fifteen minutes of the acti at ior of the alarm system. (Ord. 8-83. Passed 4-18-83.) Section 7. LIABILITY OF THE MUNICIPALITY The installation and operation of interconnected alarm systems in conjunctio with this chapter shall not constitute acceptance by the City of Dublin of any liability to maintain any equipment, to answer alarms, or for anything in connection therewith. (Ord. 8-83. Passed 4-18-83.) I RECORD OF ORDINANCES Dayton Legal Blank Co. Form No. 30043 , 54-90 Passed..mm.... m.umu. .....19. . Ordmance No. mm.mmmm. Page Three Section 8. EXEMPTIONS The provisions of this chapter are not applicable to home smoke detectors not intended to be heard outside the dwelling unit, nor to local alarm systems or audible alarms affixed to automobiles, boats, boat trailers, house trailers and recreation vehicles, or other motor vehicles. (Ord. 8-83. Passed 4-18-83.) Section 9. CERTIFICATION OF CHARGES If any of the charges for false police or fire alarms imposed herein are not paid upon receipt of the invoice for same, or within thirty days thereafter, such charges shall be certified by the City Manager or his desig ee to the Auditor of either Franklin Union or Delaware Counties, wherein the property the subject of the false alarm is located, to be included upon the tax duplicate for such property and thereafter collected in the manner provided by law. (Order 8-83. Passed 4-18-83.) Section 10. APPEALS (a) Any person affected thereby may appeal the classification of an alarm as a "false alarm" herein to the Chief of the respective Police or Fire Division involved for each such determination that the alarm is false within five days of receipt of a chargeable alarm notification as set forth in Section 703.03(a). (b) For each determination that an alarm is a chargeable false alarm, each person affected thereby may further appeal to the City Manager from the decision of the Chief of the respective division provided that such appeal is made in writing within five days of the receipt of written notification of the initial determination. The decision of the City Manager shall be final. Section 11. PENALTY (a) No person shall allow more than two chargeable false alarms to be transmitted during the immediately preceding six month period. (b) Following two chargeable false alarms, within a six month period, the person owning such system shall pay for each chargeable false alarm thereafter. (c) The average response cost shall be determined by the City of Dublin for each emergency service annually. The City Manager shall determine such response cost in cooperation with submissions by the Chief of the respective Police and fire Division. Such costs shall be certified to the Dublin Clerk of Council and published in the local media at least one month prior to implementation. (d) No person shall knowingly allow his alarm system to be used by a person to create a false alarm as defined in Section 703.01(f). Violation of this chapter shall be a misdemeanor of the second degree. (Ord. 8-83. Passed 4-18-83.) Passed this 16th day of July , 1990. I hereby certify that copies of this Ordinance/Rase! lltionvere posted i the City of Dublin in accordance with Section 731.25 of the Ohio Revised C e. >>'} / 'Ab~ "'~ '/ /' 'Clerk of Council, Dublin; Ohio Attest: '- -~'ttt1tl';;'''/ l/lJ, t~ Clerk of Counci