HomeMy WebLinkAbout90-32 - Amending Section 5.49.070 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code Pertaining to Penalties Imposed for Excessive False Police and Fire Alarms•
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ORDINANCE NO. 90 -32
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH AMENDING
SECTION 5.49.070 OF THE NEWPORT
BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE PERTAINING TO
PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR EXCESSIVE
FALSE POLICE AND FIRE ALARMS.
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach does hereby
ordain as follows:
Section 1: Section 5.49.070 of the Newport Beach Municipal
Code shall be amended to read as follows:
Section 5.49.070. False Alarm Penalty. Any person who
maintains, uses or possesses an alarm connection to the Police
Alarm System or Fire Alarm System, and which alarm has caused any
signal, message or alarm to be transmitted to the Fire Department
or the Police Department, either by direct telephone or other
direct communication or by communication from an alarm agent or an
alarm business, or by a person responding to an audible alarm and
which alarm is determined to have been a false alarm by the Chief
of Police and /or the Fire Chief, shall pay a false alarm penalty to
the City of Newport Beach. The false alarm penalties shall be
established by resolution of the City Council.
In the event that the permittee sustains six (6) false alarms
within a calendar year, Chief of Police and /or the Fire Chief, in
addition to imposing the false alarm penalties provided herein,
shall commence revocation proceedings, as provided for by Section
5.49.050 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code and shall revoke the
permit within the time period provided in that Chapter should
permittee fail to demonstrate, to the satisfaction of the Chief of
Police and /or the Fire Chief, that the alarm system is in good
working order.
Failure to pay false alarm penalties as provided herein shall
be grounds for revocation of the permit. The permittee has the
right of appeal as specified in Section 5.49.060, with respect to
the penalties imposed by the Chief of Police and /or the Fire Chief
for false alarms, pursuant to the provisions of this Chapter.
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Section 2: The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspaper
within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
• Section 3: This Ordinance was introduced at a regular
meeting of the City Council of the City of Newport Beach held on
the 25th day of June , 1990, and adopted on the 9th day of
July , 1990, by the following vote, to -wit:
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AYES, COUNCILMEMBERS WATT, SANSONE, PLUMMER,
HART, STRAUSS, COX
NOES, COUNCILMEMBERS NONE
ABSENT COUNCILMEMBERS TURNER
MAYOR
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