Chapter 7.60
FALSE ALARMS

Sections:

7.60.010  Procedures and penalties.

7.60.010 Procedures and penalties.

(a)  The owner of property shall be allowed one false alarm per one hundred and eighty day period where response by fire or sheriff’s personnel is necessary.

(b)  Upon a second response, the sheriff or fire districts (as appropriate), shall give notice of conditions and requirements of this chapter to the owner.

(c)  For a third response to the premises within one hundred and eighty days after the first response, the county of Chelan shall assess the owner or twenty-five dollar response fee. Within five working days after the notice to do so, owners shall make a written report to the sheriff in the prescribed form setting forth:

(1)  The cause of such false alarm;

(2)  The corrective action taken;

(3)  Whether and when such alarm has been inspected by authorized service personnel;

(4)  Such other information as the sheriff may reasonably require to determine the cause of such false alarm, any mitigating circumstance and corrective action necessary;

(5)  The owner(s) shall also provide the sheriff with the following information to be kept on file:

(A)  Name of occupant,

(B)  Phone number,

(C)  Formal address/informal address,

(D)  Type of alarm on premise,

(E)  Password or code to clear false alarms,

(F)  Name(s) and phone number(s) of person(s) available to respond and assist law enforcement personnel in search of premise and/or reset alarm system in owner’s absence.

(d)  The sheriff may direct the owner to have authorized personnel inspect the alarm at such premises and/or take corrective action. All costs of inspection and corrective action shall be borne by the owners.

(e)  For the fourth response to the premises within one hundred and eighty days after the second response, and for each succeeding response within one hundred and eighty days of the most recent response, the county of Chelan shall assess the owner(s) a one hundred dollar response fee. If the fourth false alarm or any succeeding false alarm, is a result of failure to take necessary corrective action prescribed hereunder, the sheriff may order a nonresponse to any subsequent alarms. The sheriff may order the owner to disconnect such alarm until such time as verification of such corrective action is provided to the Chelan County sheriff’s office. Provided, however, that no nonresponse or disconnect shall be ordered for any premises required by law or regulation to have an alarm system in operation. (Res. 93-135, 10/11/93).