a.No person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity, with the exception of governmental entities, or such alarm devices as are required to be installed by governmental entities, shall install, connect, place, or cause to be installed, connected, or placed into operation any alarm device, whether sounded or operated, on the premises or remotely sounded or operated, which is designed, intended or expected, to summon the assistance of employees of the City without first obtaining a permit for such alarm device from the City Manager or his designated representative.

b.Any such person, firm, corporation, partnership, or other legal entity required to obtain a permit under this section, shall file a permit application of a form provided by the City showing the type, purpose, operating procedure and such other information as may be required by the City Manager or his designated representative. A fee shall be set by resolution of the City Council which shall accompany each application, and no renewal fee shall be required except as hereinafter provided. The application shall contain a contractual provision obligating the applicant to pay any service charges imposed and shall be signed by the applicant. The application shall contain a further provision, signed by both the applicant and the alarm company servicing the applicant, that the alarm company has explained the nature of this Section and the possible fees and penalties which may be imposed hereunder upon the applicant.

c.The City Manager or his designated representative shall verify the information submitted pursuant to the application. No permit shall issue under this section until the City Manager or his designated representative has ascertained that all personnel with access to the alarm device will or have received adequate training in its operation. No permit shall issue under this Section until agreement to the installation, connection or placement of the alarm device has been secured from the County Communications Center.

d.Whenever any employee of the City is required to respond to an alarm which has been activated falsely, which is determined to have been preventable by the permittee, his agents or employees, a service fee shall be imposed upon the permittee by the City in a given month in an amount to be determined by the City Council by resolution.

e.Repeated false activations of any alarm device shall be grounds for revocation of the permit. Whenever the City Manager or his designated representative finds and determines that the continued operation of such alarm or alarms constitutes a detriment to the public health, safety and welfare due to repeated misallocation of public safety employees or other reasonable cause, he shall notify the permittee to disconnect the alarm and revoke the permit. Upon such notification, there shall be no response to such alarm device by employees of the City, excepting that when an appeal has been filed, service shall continue during the period of such appeal.

f.Any revocation of a permit under this Section may be appealed to the City Council within ten days after notification of such revocation. The appeal shall be placed on the next available Council agenda for consideration.

g.Whenever a permit is revoked in accordance with this Section, and that revocation is upheld by the Council or the appeal period has elapsed, reinstatement of such permit may be treated as an application for a new permit, including fee, and such reinstatement shall be conditioned upon provision by the applicant of substantial evidence that the applicant has corrected the deficiencies which caused the original revocation.

h.Installation, connection or operation of any alarm system after revocation of the permit (excluding any period of appeal) shall be an infraction.

i.Any person, firm, corporation, partnership or other legal entity operating alarm system within the City at the effective date of this Section shall have a period of 30 days in which to apply for a permit pursuant to this Section. Failure to make such application within 30 days while continuing to operate an alarm device shall be an infraction.