ALARM USER PERMIT APPLICATION
*** PLEASE TYPE OR PRINT LEGIBLY ***1) Name of Alarm User (name of homeowner(s) or name of business): A) __________________________________________________________________________________ B) __________________________________________________________________________________ 2) Date of Birth (Residential Only-Over 65 - No Permit Fee) A)___________________ B)__________________ 3) Alarm Location: [ ] Residence [ ] Business [ ] Financial [ ] Government 4) If residence: [ ] House [ ] Apartment [ ] Duplex [ ] Other 5) Type of Business (if applicable): _______________________________________________________________ 6) Street Address: _____________________________________________________________________________ 7) City: Molalla State: OR Zip: 97038 Nearest Cross Street: __________________________________ 8) Home phone: ( ) Work phone: ( ) Fax: ( )_________________ 9) Mailing address: ____________________________________________________________________________ 10) [ ] New system: Install date _____________ [ ] Existing system: Install/Take-over date _____________ Type of Burglar Alarm System: (check only one box) 11) [ ] Audible only (system sounds a siren/bell only; not monitored) [ ] Monitored only [ ] Both audible/monitored 12) Alarm Monitoring Co: __________________________________________ 24 hr tel: ____________________ 13) Alarm Installation/Service Co: ____________________________________ 24 hr tel: ____________________ Type of User Activated Alarm: (check appropriate box(s) if a user of the alarm system can activate these special emergency conditions even when the burglar alarm system protecting the premise is turned off) 14) [ ] Robbery/Holdup/Panic (Business Only – a silent signal only is sent to the alarm company) 15) [ ] Silent Panic (Residential Only – a signal only is sent to the alarm company) 16) [ ] Panic (a siren bell sounds at location and a silent signal is also sent to the alarm company) 17) Type of Other Emergency Signals: [ ] Fire Alarm [ ] Medical Alarm List two (2) other persons other than those listed on line 1 who can be contacted with keys to premises to assist police or fire department to secure the premises or reset a malfunctioning alarm. (MUST LIST TWO) 18) Name: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Home phone: ( ) Cell phone: ( ) Work phone: ( ) Ext ______ 19) Name: _________________________________________________________________________________ Home phone: ( ) Cell phone: ( ) Work phone: ( ) Ext ______ NOTE: Application for an alarm permit shall be signed by the alarm user, and authorizes emergency services personnel to enter and search the premises in the event of an alarm. Without a valid permit, police may decline to respond to your premise.
21) Authorized Signature: __________________________________________ Date: _______________________ 22) Print name: ________________________________________________________
PERMIT FEE: Residential/Commercial = $15.00; Annual Renewal = $10.00; Over 65 – No Fee (Residential Only)
MAIL APPLICATION & FEE TO: Molalla Police Department, PO Box 248, Molalla, OR 97038
MOLALLA CITY ORDINANCE 2002-07 Adopted September 25, 2002 |
MOLALLA POLICE DEPARTMENT117 N. Molalla Avenue – PO Box 248 Molalla, OR 97038 Phone: 503-829-8817
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Date Received ___________________ Amount Received ________________ Alarm Permit No. ___________ Date Issued: ____________________ Date Expires: ___________________ |
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8.12.050 Purpose and Scope. A) The purpose of this chapter is to provide minimum standards and regulations applicable to alarm systems including those systems utilizing automatic dialing devices, and to encourage alarm users, as well as alarm businesses, to assume increased responsibility for maintaining the mechanical reliability and the proper use of alarm systems to prevent unnecessary emergency response to false alarms and thereby to protect the emergency response capability of the City. B) This chapter governs burglary, robbery and panic alarm systems, requires City permits, provides for allocation of revenues and deficits, provides for penalty assessments for excessive false alarms, provides for penalty assessments for delinquent accounts, provides for discontinuation of police response to alarms and revocation of alarm permits, provides for punishment of violators, and establishes a system of administration. 8.12.055 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter: A) “Alarm business” means the business by an individual, partnership, corporation, or other entity of selling, leasing, maintaining, servicing, repairing, altering, replacing, moving or installing any alarm system or causing to be sold, leased, maintained, serviced, repaired, altered, replaced, moved or installed in or on any building, structure or facility. B) “Alarm center” means any location, other than the Emergency Dispatch Center, where alarms are received from sites within the city and for which emergency services personnel are requested to respond. C) “Alarm Coordinator” means the individual designated by the Chief of Police to issue permits and enforce the provisions of this chapter. D) “Alarm permit” refers to the official document that is issued by the Molalla Police Department to users of alarm systems within the City limits. E) “Alarm system” means any assembly of equipment, mechanical or electrical, including a system interconnected with radio frequency signals, designed to signal the occurrence of an illegal entry, emergency, or other activity, by emitting or transmitting a remote or local audible, visual or electronic signal, requesting emergency services personnel response. An alarm system does not include an alarm installed on a motor vehicle or an alarm that is carried as a personal protection device on an individual’s body. F) “Alarm user” means the person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company or organization of any kind which owns, controls or occupies any building, structure or facility wherein an alarm system is maintained. G) “Answering service” means any telephone answering service providing the service of receiving, on a continuous basis through trained employees, emergency signals from an alarm system and thereafter immediately relaying the message by live voice to the Emergency Dispatch Center. H) “Automatic dialing device” means a device, which is interconnected to a telephone line and is programmed to select a predetermined telephone number and transmit by voice message or coded signal an emergency message indicating a need for emergency response. Such a device is an alarm system. J) “Central Station” means an office to which remote alarm and supervisory signaling devices are connected where operators are maintained continuously to supervise the circuit and investigate signals. K) “Chief of Police” means the Chief of Police of the City of Molalla or designated representative. L) “Emergency Dispatch Center” is the City/County facility used to receive emergency 911 calls and general information from the public to be dispatched to emergency responders. M) “False alarm” means an alarm signal that elicits a response by emergency services personnel when a situation requiring such a response does not in fact exist, but does not include an alarm signal caused by violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary means not reasonably subject to control by the alarm business, operator, or alarm user. N) “Interconnect” means to connect an alarm system including an automatic dialing device to a telephone line, either directly or through a mechanical device that utilizes a telephone for the purpose of using the telephone line to transmit a message upon the activation of the alarm system. O) “No response” means that emergency services personnel will not be dispatched to investigate a report of an alarm signal. P) “Primary trunk line of the City” means a telephone line servicing the City that is designated to receive emergency calls. Q) “Robbery alarm system” means an alarm system transmitting a silent robbery signal from a business location or a panic/duress signal from a residential location. R) “Sound Emission Cutoff Feature” means a feature of an alarm system, which will cause an audible system to stop emitting sound. S) “System becomes operative” means the point at which the alarm system is capable of requesting a police response. 8.12.060 Interconnection of automatic dialing devices. Automatic dialing devices shall be interconnected only to a telephone line transmitting directly to a central station, an answering service, or to such location where the recipient of calls has consented to receive calls from the automatic dialing device. No automatic dialing devices shall be interconnected to a primary trunk line of the City of Molalla. 8.12.065 Requirements Imposed Upon Alarm Businesses. A. Every alarm business selling, leasing or furnishing an alarm system to any user and having the alarm system installed on such person’s premises located in the City of Molalla shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter. Each such business shall furnish the user with instructions providing adequate information to reasonably enable the user to operate the alarm system properly at any time. The alarm business shall also inform each alarm user of the requirement to obtain an alarm permit and where such permit may be obtained. B. Every alarm business selling or leasing to any person an alarm system that is installed on such person’s premises in the City shall provide or make available at all times service to repair such device should it malfunction and shall furnish to the person buying or leasing such device written information concerning how service may be obtained at any time, including the telephone number to call for service. C. Each alarm business selling or leasing to any person an alarm system that is installed on such person’s premises in the City shall initiate activation of the alarm system only after the alarmed premise obtains a City of Molalla Alarm Permit as provided in this chapter. A. Alarm users shall maintain the premises and the alarm system in a manner that will minimize or eliminate false alarms. B. Alarm users shall make every reasonable effort to respond or cause a representative to respond to the alarm system’s location when notified by a representative of the City, to deactivate a malfunctioning alarm system, provide access to the premises, provide security for the premises, or provide any combination of the foregoing. C. No person shall manually activate an alarm that requests a response from emergency services personnel for any reason other than an occurrence of an event that the alarm system was intended to report. D. All alarm systems within the City limits shall be equipped with a sound emission cutoff feature which will stop the emission of sound 15 minutes or less after the alarm is activated. 8.12.075 Permits required; fees; exemptions. A. Every alarm user, including those connected through an alarm center, shall obtain a City of Molalla Alarm Permit from the Alarm Coordinator for each alarm system prior to use of an alarm system. Applications for an alarm permit shall be filed with the Alarm Coordinator and shall be accompanied by the required fee, which shall be set by the City Council by resolution. Each permit shall bear the signature of the Chief of Police and shall be valid for one (1) year from the date of issue. The alarm permit shall be physically displayed in a location upon the alarmed premises that is clearly visible from the exterior of the alarmed premises for inspection purposes. B. The application for the alarm permit shall be signed by the alarm user, and shall include an authorization from the alarm user for emergency services personnel to enter and search the premises in the event of an alarm. C. The Alarm Coordinator shall notify each alarm user by regular mail of the need to pay a renewal fee to obtain a renewed alarm permit at least thirty days prior to the expiration of the permit. A late penalty shall be assessed in addition to the Alarm Permit fee to an alarm user who fails to obtain an alarm permit within thirty days of when the system becomes operative, or to a user who fails to renew a permit within thirty days after the permit expires. D. The following shall be exempt from paying a fee for an alarm permit, but shall be subject to all other provisions of this chapter: 1. An alarm user which is a governmental unit; 2. Residential alarm users who own or lease the premises where the alarm is installed, are over the age of 65, reside where the permitted alarm is located, and no business is conducted in the residence. 3. Alarm users required to install, maintain and operate an alarm system by federal, state, county or municipal statute, regulation, rule or ordinance. E. Alarm permits shall be issued for a specified location and shall not be transferred to another person or location. It is the responsibility of the alarm user to update the Alarm Coordinator of any changes that alter any information listed on the alarm permit application. 8.12.080 False alarms. A. It shall be unlawful for any person to own, operate, control, maintain, lease, rent or use an alarm system which generates more than two false alarms in any permit year. Each false alarm after the second alarm is a separate violation of this section, and may be prosecuted in the Municipal Court. B. The City shall provide a “False Alarm Notice” to notify alarm users of false alarm activations and to advise the user of the consequences of future false alarms. The False Alarm Notice shall also inform the alarm user of the right to appeal the validity of the false alarm to the Chief of Police as provided in this chapter. 8.12.085 Alarm validity. A. An alarm user has the right to contest the validity of a false alarm determination and may appeal to the Chief of Police for a Validation Hearing. The appeal must be in writing and must be received by the Alarm Coordinator within ten days of issuance of the False Alarm Notice. Failure to contest the determination in the required time period shall result in a conclusive presumption that the alarm was false. B. If a Validation Hearing is requested, written notice of the time and place of the Validation Hearing shall be served on the user via certified mail at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing. The date shall not be more than twenty-one or less than ten days after the filing of the request for the hearing. C. The Validation Hearing shall be before the Chief of Police. The Alarm Coordinator and the alarm user shall have the right to present written and oral evidence, subject to the right of rebuttal. If the Chief of Police determines that the alleged false alarm has or has not occurred in a permit year, the Chief shall issue written findings waiving, expunging or affirming the initial determination of the false alarm designation. D. The Chief of Police may appoint another person to hear the Appeals and to render judgment. 8.12.090 Suspension of police response. A. If a permit fee, late penalty or false alarm penalty have not been received by the City within fifteen days of when due, or if an alarm permit has been revoked, the Alarm Coordinator shall send a “Notice of Suspension of Police Response” via certified mail to the alarm user, and a copy to the alarm business providing the service, indicating that police response shall be suspended at the alarmed premise due to said delinquency and shall remain suspended until such time as the delinquent amount due is paid in full, or the permit has been reinstated. B. The suspension of police response to alarm activations shall begin fifteen days after the mailing date of the “Notice of Suspension of Police Response” unless the alarm user pays the delinquent amount due in full, or reinstates the alarm permit. 8.12.095 Permit revocation A. Any alarm system which has seven or more false alarms during any permit year shall be subject to permit revocation as provided in this section. B. If the City records seven or more false alarms during any permit year, the Alarm Coordinator shall notify the alarm user and the alarm business providing service or inspection to the user by certified mail of such fact and direct that the user submit a report to the Alarm Coordinator within ten days of receipt of the notice describing actions taken, or to be taken, to discover and eliminate the source of the false alarms. C. If the alarm user submits a report as directed, the Alarm Coordinator shall determine if the actions taken or to be taken will prevent the occurrence of false alarms. If it is determined that the action will prevent the occurrence of false alarms, the Alarm Coordinator shall notify the alarm user and relevant alarm business in writing that the permit will not be revoked at that time, but that if one more false alarm occurs within the permit year, the permit will be summarily revoked. D. If no report is submitted, or if the Alarm Coordinator determines that the actions taken or to be taken will not prevent the occurrence of false alarms, the Alarm Coordinator shall give notice to the user that the permit will be revoked if the user does not file within ten days a written request for a hearing. If a hearing is requested, written notice of the time and place of the hearing shall be served on the user by the Alarm Coordinator by certified mail at least ten days prior to the date set for the hearing, which date shall not be more than twenty-one or less than ten days after the filing of the request for a hearing. E. The hearing shall be before the City Administrator, and the Alarm Coordinator and the alarm user shall have the right to present written and oral evidence, subject to the right of cross examination. If the City Administrator determines that seven or more false alarms have occurred during any permit year, and that the user has not taken actions which will prevent the occurrence of false alarms, the City Administrator shall issue written findings to that effect and may issue an order revoking the user’s permit. F. Notice of revocation shall be sent to the alarm user and to the applicable alarm business by certified mail. Revocations shall be effective fifteen days after mailing. G. Permits revoked pursuant to the above procedure shall be revoked for a period of one year. Any alarms received which result in emergency response during the period the alarm permit is revoked will result in a charge of $100 per alarm received, in addition to any false alarm penalties. Such charges must be paid in full prior to reapplication for an alarm permit. 8.12.100 Violation penalties. A. False alarms shall be punishable as follows: Number of false alarms within permit year: Fine per violation, not to exceed: 3 $50.00 4 $75.00 5 $100.00 6 or more $150.00 B. Violation of any other provision of this Chapter shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500. Each day’s violation shall be deemed a separate offense. Section 3. This ordinance shall be effective thirty days after its passage.
Duly adopted this _25th_ day of ___September____, 2002 by the Molalla City Council by a vote of __5__ayes and __0__nays:
ATTEST this _25th_ day of _September_, 2002: ____/s/ Macon E. Sumner___________
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