HomeMy WebLinkAbout87-46 - Amending Section 5.49.070 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code Pertaining to False Alarm PenaltyORDINANCE NO. 87 -46
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
FALSE ALARM PENALTY.
The City Council of the City of Newport Beach does
hereby ordain as follows:
Section 1: The provisions of Section 5.49.070 of the
Newport Beach Municipal Code are hereby amended to read as
follows:
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 as follows:
(a) For the third (3rd) false alarm within a calendar
year, permittee shall pay a fifty dollar ($50.00) false alarm
penalty;
(b) For the fourth (4th) false alarm within a calendar
year, permittee shall pay a one hundred dollar ($100.00) false
alarm penalty; and
(c) For the fifth (5th) and each subsequent false alarm
within a calendar year, the permittee shall pay a one hundred and
twenty -five dollar ($125.00) false alarm penalty.
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 penalties imposed by the Chief of Police and /or the
Fire Chief for false alarms, pursuant to the provisions of this
Chapter.
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 26th day of October , 1987, and adopted on the 9th day
of November , 1987, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES, COUNCIIIVIEVIBERS Cox, Hart, Maurer,
Plummer, Sansone, Strauss, Turner
NOES, COUNC IIMEVIBERS
ABSENT COUNCII,MEMBERS