§ 12-3. False alarm fines.

(a)

Whenever an alarm user issues, causes to be issued, or permits the issuance of a false alarm, this section shall apply unless the alarm user is a political subdivision as defined by IC 36-1-2-13.

(b)

After an alarm user causes or allows the issuance of any combination of three (3) false police or fire alarms, it shall be unlawful for the alarm user to cause or allow the issuance of a false alarm. Each false alarm subsequent to the third false alarm shall constitute a separate offense.

(c)

The Police and Fire Departments shall maintain appropriate records of all false alarms to which each department responds. After a department responds to three (3) false alarms at a location on or after January 1 and before December 31 of any calendar year the department which responded to the scene of an unlawful false alarm shall impose on and collect from the alarm user a fine for that unlawful false alarm.

(d)

False alarm fines shall be in the amount of one hundred dollars ($100.00) for the fourth false alarm and two hundred dollars ($200.00) for the fifth and each false alarm thereafter.

(e)

All fines collected as a result of a false alarm call to the Police Department shall be deposited in the Law Enforcement Continuing Education Fund, Fund 220, and all fines collected as a result of a false alarm call to the Fire Department shall be deposited in the Emergency Medical Services Capital Improvement Fund, Fund 288.

(Ord. No. 7645-86, § 1; Ord. No. 9423-03, § VIII)