15.56.020 Alarm users registration required.
A. Beginning January 1, 2000, no person shall operate or use a security alarm system on any premises within the city of Auburn, under that person’s control, without first having obtained from the police department a separate registration for each premises protected by an alarm system.
B. The police department may not respond to any alarm system for which a registration has not first been obtained.
C. For the purposes of this section, a person shall be deemed to be an operator or user of an alarm system if:
1. The person controls both the alarm system and the premises upon which it is installed; or
2. The person controls the premises and is the subscriber, client or tenant of the system subscriber; or
3. The person is the system subscriber or alarm user.
D. All persons required to obtain a registration must complete a registration application form that is provided by the police department. Information required to be provided on the registration application form includes, but is not limited to:
1. Subscriber’s and/or alarm user’s name, address and telephone number(s);
2. Names and telephone numbers of three additional persons who will respond in the event of alarm activation in the absence of the alarm user and said persons will provide access to premises and be able to deactivate alarm, or said persons will provide information on who to contact for access;
3. The name(s) of the alarm installation business and alarm monitoring business responsible for regular maintenance and monitoring;
4. The information required in subsection (D)(3) of this section shall not apply to alarms which are installed by the homeowner/tenant;
5. The information required in subsection (D)(3) of this section shall not apply to: (a) existing alarms; or (b) alarms which are installed in multiple-tenant buildings.
E. Failure to complete the required information will result in automatic denial of the registration.
F. Each registration shall be given a number which shall not be transferable.
G. Completed applications for an alarm user’s registration and a fee as set forth in the city of Auburn fee schedule shall be filed with the police department, except that no fee shall be charged for alarms installed prior to enactment of this chapter if a registration application for such existing alarm system is filed prior to January 2000.
H. A penalty fee as set forth in the fee resolution will be charged, in addition to the fee provided in subsection G of this section, to a user who fails to obtain a registration within 30 days after the system becomes operative, or to a current user who fails to obtain a registration.
I. Registration fees shall be payable to the city of Auburn and deposited into the city’s general fund.
J. Any person who owns, operates, or possesses any alarm system within the city of Auburn, which does not conform to the requirements of this chapter, shall disconnect that alarm and render it inoperable or alter it in accordance with this chapter no later than 60 days after enactment of this chapter.
K. The following shall be required to obtain a registration under this article, but shall not be required to pay any fee:
1. Businesses which are nonprofit organizations, including but not limited to religious, civic, charitable, benevolent, nonprofit, cultural, governmental or youth organizations.
L. Alarm user shall notify police department, within 10 days, of any change of information from that contained on the registration application. (Ord. 6601 § 32, 2016; Ord. 5819 § 8, 2004; Ord. 5224 § 1, 1999.)