§ 104-9. Suspension of response.

A. 

The alarm administrator may suspend law enforcement response to an alarm site by revoking the alarm registration if it is determined that:

(1) 

The alarm user has 10 or more false alarms in a twelve-month-calendar-year period; or

(2) 

There is a statement of a material fact known to be false in the application for a registration; or

(3) 

The alarm user has failed to make timely payment of a fine assessed under § 104-7 or fee assessed under § 104-3.

B. 

A person commits a violation of this chapter if he/she operates an alarm system during the period in which the alarm registration is revoked and is subject to enforcement and penalties set in §§ 104-7 and 104-14.

C. 

Before any suspension-of-response status is imposed by the alarm administrator, a hearing will be held before the Police Commission. The alarm administrator shall send written notice of the intended action to place an alarm site on suspension-of-response status and the date for the hearing to either the affected applicant or alarm user. The appropriate party will be provided at least 20 days' notice of the hearing date. A decision will be made by the Police Commission no later than 30 days following the hearing. If the Police Commission approves suspension of response, it will go into effect upon written notification of this decision by registered mail or certified mail to the affected applicant and/or alarm user. Suspension of response will end when the alarm administrator informs the Police Commission that the party in question has taken action to conform to the requirements of this chapter.

D. 

If it is found at the hearing that suspension-of-response status is warranted, until the party in question has taken action to conform to the requirements of this chapter, the following actions may take place:

(1) 

Unless there is separate indication that there is a crime in progress, the Chief of Police or his or her designee will refuse law enforcement response to an alarm dispatch request at an alarm site for which the alarm registration is suspended.

(2) 

In addition to the sanctions outlined in Subsection A, a shift supervisor may temporarily suspend the response of law enforcement personnel to an alarm dispatch request if, in the opinion of the Police Chief or his or her designee, the frequency and timing of alarm dispatch requests to the same alarm site indicates that the alarm dispatch request is another false alarm.

E. 

If the alarm registration is reinstated pursuant to § 104-10, the Chief of Police and/or the alarm administrator may again suspend law enforcement response to the alarm site by again revoking the alarm registration, if it is determined that two false alarms have occurred within 30 days after the reinstatement date. Before suspension of response can take place, the procedure for a hearing detailed in Subsection C shall be followed.