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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Systems" is hereby repealed and recodified as follows.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".
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(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.)
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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.
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