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BILL NO. 21
ORDINANCE NO. 1574
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AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND TITLE IV OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE OF THE CITY OF
CALDWELL, COUNTY OF CANYON, STATE OF IDAHO, BY ADDING THE FOLLOWING WHICH
SHALL BE DESIGNATED AS CHAPTER 22 OF SAID TITLE IV REGARDING BURGLARY
AND ROBBERY ALARM LICENSES: PROVIDING DEFINITION OF LANGUAGE; PROVIDING
FOR LICENSE REQUIRED; PROVIDING FOR LICENSE APPLICATION; PROVIDING FOR
FEE AND REVOCATION OF LICENSE; PROVIDING CONFIDENTIALITY RELATIVE TO
INFORMATION SUBMITTED; PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION: REPEALING
ALL ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, ORDER OR PARTS THEREOF IN CONFLICT HEREWITH.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CALDWELL,
COUNTY OF CANYON, STATE OF IDAHO:
Section 1. That Title IV of the Municipal Code of the City of
Caldwell, County of Canyon, State of Idaho, shall be amended by adding
the following which shall be designated as Chapter 22 of said Title IV
of said City Code:
4 -22 -1: DEFINITIONS: Burglary and Robbery Alarm systems means an
alarm system installed by a person, firm, partnership, association,
corporation, company or organization in control of any building,
structure or facility to which police are expected to respond
through the Public Safety Communications which is the City or
County facility used to receive emergency information to be
dispatched to the Police Department.
4 -22 -2: LICENSE REQUIRED: It shall be unlawful for any person to
install a burglary or robbery alarm system without having first
obtained a license for each system from the City Clerk with the
approval of the Chief of Police. The license shall be physically
upon the premises using the system.
4 -22 -3: LICENSE APPLICATION: All applications for a license must be in
writing and filed with the City Clerk.
4 -22 -4: LICENSE FEE:
(A) If the application is approved by the Chief of Police; said
license shall be granted for a period of one year beginning
January 1st and ending December 31st without payment of any fee.
(B) There shall be a $35.00 fee charged for any user who fails
to obtain a license or who is fifteen (15) days delinquent in
renewing their license.
4 -22 -5: REVOCATION OF LICENSE:
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(A) After system has been in for thirty (30) days, the system
that has five (5) or more false alarms in three (3) months
period which does not include an alarm signal caused by violent
conditions of nature, or other extraordinary circumstances not
reasonably subject to control by the alarm user (equipment
failure), the user shall be subject to revocation of license
and /or for each false alarm over five (5) per three month period
in a license year upon demand therefore by the Chief of Police
shall pay a fee of $25.00 for each additional controllable false
alarm.
(B) The Chief of Police shall notify the user by certified
mail and direct the user to submit a report to the Chief of
Police describing action taken to eliminate the cause of false
alarms.
(C) If no report is submitted or if the Chief of Police
determines that the action taken will not prevent the occurrence
of false alarms, the Chief of Police shall give notice by
certified mail to the user and the license shall be revoked
ten (10) days from the time of the written notice being received.
An alarm user upon being notified by certified mail of the
revocation of the license shall immediately discontinue use of
the system until all steps have been taken to prevent future
excessive false alarms.
(D) The user may request in writing a hearing before the City
Council and the Chief of Police. If a hearing is requested, the
Chief of Police shall notify the user by certified mail of the
hearing date at least ten (10) days prior to the date set for
the hearing.
(E) If the City Council and the Chief of Police determine
that the alarm user has not taken steps to prevent future
excessive false alarms, the City Council shall issue written
findings to that effect and order the revoking of the user's
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license. An alarm user upon being notified by certified mail
of the revocation of the license shall immediately discontinue
use of the system until all steps have been taken to prevent
future excessive false alarms.
4 -22 -6: CONFIDENTIALITY: All information submitted in compliance with
this ordinance shall be held in strictest confidence.
4 -22 -7: PENALTY FOR VIOLATION: Any person violating any of the
provisions of this Chapter shall be punishable by the provisions
of this Code.
Section 2. That all ordinances or parts of ordinances inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its passage, approval and publication according to law.
PASSED BY THE COUNCIL of the City of Caldwell this 21st
day of October , 1980.
APPROVED BY THE MAYOR of the City of Caldwell this 21st
day of October , 1980.
ATTEST:
City Cle