§ 18-170. Duty of police and fire departments to respond to proper alarms without charge; fee for false alarms.

(a)

The police department and/or fire department of the city will respond to proper notification of activation of an alarm system without charge, except the following fees shall be charged the holder of a registration certificate for each response by the police department and/or fire department to notification of activation of an alarm system in excess of two false alarms from the same site of an alarm system within a calendar month: thirty dollars for each response to notification of activation of an alarm system in excess of two false alarms within a calendar month.

(b)

No fee will be charged for a response to notification of the activation of an alarm system if the registration certificate holder shows that the activation was not a false alarm, and any response by the police department and/or fire department to notification of the activation of an alarm system will not be included in determining the fees set out in subsection (a) of this section if the registration certificate holder shows that such was not a false alarm. For purposes of determining the fees set out in subsection (a) of this section, the burden shall be on the holder of the registration certificate to prove that the activation of the alarm system was not a false alarm.

(Code 1977, § 2¼-11)