9.16.040 Fees – Corrective action – Disconnection.
For police response to any false alarms, the city may charge and collect from the owner fees as follows:
A. For a response to a premises at which no other false alarm has occurred within the preceding six-month period, referred to in this chapter as a “first response,” no fee shall be charged. Upon a first response, the police chief shall give notice of conditions and requirements of this chapter to the owner.
B. For a second response to the premises within six months after a first response, the police chief may charge the owner a fee of $25.00. Owner shall, within five working days after notice to do so, make a written report to the police chief on prescribed forms setting forth:
1. The cause of such false alarms;
2. The corrective action taken;
3. Whether and when such alarm has been inspected by authorized service personnel; and
4. Such other information as the police chief may reasonably require to determine the cause of such false alarm, any mitigating circumstances and corrective action necessary.
The police chief may direct the owner to have authorized service personnel inspect the alarm at such premises and to take other corrective action as prescribed by the chief of police. All costs of inspection and corrective action shall be borne by the owner.
C. For the third response to a premises within six months after a second response, and for each succeeding response within six months of the most recent response, the police chief may charge the owner an administrative fee of $50.00. If such third false alarm or any succeeding false alarm occurs as a result of failure to take necessary corrective action prescribed under subsection B of this section, the police chief may order the owner to disconnect such alarm until the prescribed corrective action is provided to the Gig Harbor police department; provided, however, that no disconnection shall be ordered for any premises required by law or administrative regulation to have an alarm system in operation. (Ord. 529 § 2, 1988).