§ 8.12.020. FINDINGS.

The Common Council finds:

A. The majority of burglary, robbery and fire alarms to which the city responds are false. Such false alarms result in an enormous waste of manpower. There are such a large percentage of false alarms as may lull the police officers into a sense of false security. In responding to an alarm, they will probably assume it is a false alarm and may be wounded or killed by criminals at the location;

B. Alarm systems which automatically and directly dial any emergency phone number are very prone to be activated by current failures or other events having no connection with criminal activity and tie up such emergency phones, making them unavailable to receive genuine emergency calls;

C. The danger to citizens through emergency fire and police response created by false alarms is unnecessary and hazardous;

D. The unnecessary waste of city funds/tax dollars through responses to false alarms must be eliminated;

E. False alarms of any type have created conditions causing danger and annoyance to the general public.

(Prior Code, § 13-1-2) (Ord. 13-1090, § 21, passed 3-12-2013)