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ORDINANCE NO.
89-2667
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COMMISBION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI
BEACH, FLORIDA AMENDING SECTION 25-39.2 OF THE CITY OF
MIAMI BEACH CODE ENTITLED "RESPONSES TO FALSE ALARMS",
SPECIFICALLY PARAGRAPHS C(1) AND (2) BY CHANGING NON-
ASSESSABLE RESPONSES TO FALSE ALARMS FROM FIVE TO FOUR
ANNUALLY; PROVIDING FOR A $25.00 FEE PER RESPONSE AFTER
THE FOURTH FALSE ALARM RESPONSE; PROVIDING FOR
SEVERABILITY; REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT
HEREWITH; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF MIAMI BEACH,
FLORIDA:
Section 1.
Amending Section 25-39.2 of the City of Miami Beach
Code entitled "Responses to False Alarms",
specifically paragraphs C(l) and C(2).
The above referenced section of the city of Miami Beach Code
shall be amended to read as follows:
SECTION 25-39.2
RESPONSES TO FALSE ALARMS
(a) A response for a false alarm shall be
borne by an alarm user and shall result when
any police officer dispatched to the scene of
the activated alarm system determines the alarm
to be false, said officer shall make a report
of the false alarm, a notification of which
shall be mailed or delivered to the alarm user,
at the address of said alarm system
installation location, advising the alarm user
of the false alarm.
(b) The chief of police, or his designee,
shall have the right to inspect any alarm
system on the premises to which a response has
been made and may cause the inspection of same
to be made at any reasonable time thereafter
to determine whether it is being used in
conformity with the terms of this section.
(c) If a police officer of the City of Miami
Beach responds to any false alarm in the city,
the City of Miami Beach shall charge the
following regulatory fees to the alarm user,
which fees shall be collected by the city
finance director:
(1) For the first, second, third, and fourth
aRa fif~h response to a false alarm within an
annual period, no fee shall be assessed, but
the alarm user responsible for the false alarm
shall take whatever corrective action necessary
to insure that the fourth fifth false alarm
will be the last.
(2) For each successive response after the
fourth fifth response within an annual period,
a fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall be
assessed; for purposes of this subsection the
annual period commences each January 1 and ends
on December 31 of each year.
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section 2.
SEVERABILITY.
If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, then said hOlding shall in no way affect the validity
of the remaining portion of this Ordinance.
section 3.
REPEALER.
All ordinances or parts in conflict herewith be and the same are
hereby repealed.
section 4.
EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Ordinance shall take effect ten (10) days after its adoption
on the 14th day of
October
, 19 89
PASSED and ADOPTED this
4th
day of
October
, 1989 .
ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
FORM APPROVED:
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LEGAL DEPARTMENT
DATE: 9h'7/f/
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Words in !3trl:lelc threl:l<:Jh type are deletions. Words in underscore
are additions.
1st reading 9/20/89
2nd reading 10/4/89
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