§ 9A.11.010. False alarm—Prohibited.

(a)

No person may willfully tamper, damage or interfere with any wire, switch, telephone, radio, or other equipment or apparatus of any public or private alarm system.

(b)

No person may willfully and without reasonable grounds give or send any false alarm of fire or other emergency, including shouting in a public place.

(c)

No person may intentionally activate any alarm system, for the purpose of summoning emergency response personnel, except in the event of an actual or attempted criminal activity or other actual emergency necessitating emergency response personnel, and no person notifying emergency response services of an activated alarm and having knowledge that such activation was apparently caused by an electrical or other malfunction of the alarm system may fail at the same time to notify the emergency response personnel of such apparent malfunction.

(d)

No alarm system user may cause or allow more than two false alarms to occur within any one-year period. This one-year period shall commence from the date of the first alarm incurred by the alarm system user and continue for a 12-month period thereafter.

(e)

No person may provide alarm system monitoring service to the user of an automatic alarm system without maintaining a verification process as provided in section 9A.11.050.

(f)

A violation of subsections a through c of this section, inclusive, is a misdemeanor; a violation of subsections (d) or (e) of this section is a civil infraction.

(Ord. No. T-37, § 1(part), 2003)