San Clemente Municipal Code Art. II Standards, Regulations, Requirements and Duties

The City Council by resolution shall prescribe minimum standards and regulations for the construction and maintenance of all alarm systems installed within the City. All devices shall meet or exceed such standards and regulations before permits may be issued pursuant to this chapter. The Communications Director shall be authorized to inspect and approve all alarm systems installed within the City.

(Prior code § 20A-4)

Upon notification by the City's Communications Department that an audible alarm is activated, the permittee, his representative, or his alarm agent, shall immediately proceed to silence the alarm. For purposes of this chapter, immediately means within thirty (30) minutes. Alternately, the alarm system may be equipped with an automatic shut-off device which shall silence the alarm within thirty (30) minutes, thus eliminating the need for a personal response as otherwise required by this section.

(Prior code § 20A-5)

Every person operating as an alarm agent within the City shall carry on his or her person at all times while so engaged, a valid alarm agent state identification card and shall display such card to any Police Officer upon request.

(Prior code § 20A-6)

Every person engaged in, conducting or operating an alarm business within the City shall post on the premises where the alarm business is located a copy of a valid state alarm company operator's license. The Communications Department may issue an appropriate license identification tag and establish requirements for its posting.

(Prior code § 20A-7)

Each alarm business, alarm agent or permittee shall display to the Communications Director, when requested, their record of inspection or repair of an installed alarm system.

(Prior code § 20A-8)

Each alarm business, alarm agent or permittee which installs or services an alarm system shall clearly instruct the operators of the alarm systems in the proper use and operation of the alarm system, as frequently as necessary, especially in those factors which can cause false alarms.

(Prior code § 20A-9)

A. .....No person except a public utility engaged in the business of providing communications services and facilities shall use or operate, attempt to use or operate or cause to be used or operated, or arrange, adjust, program or otherwise provide or install any device or combination of devices that will upon activation, either mechanically, electronically or by other automatic means initiate the intrastate calling, dialing or connection to any telephone number assigned to any subscriber by a public telephone company, without the prior written consent of such subscriber.

B. .....The term "telephone number" includes any additional numbers assigned by a public utility company engaged in the business of providing communications services and facilities to be used by means of a rotary or other system to connect with the subscriber to such primary number when the primary telephone number is in use. In no case will the prerecorded message from such reporting telephone terminate at any City-owned facility, or other City-approved communication center.

(Prior code § 20A-10)

It is unlawful to install on the exterior or interior of a building an intrusion detection device or burglar alarm system which upon actuation emits a sound exceeding eighty (80) decibels (when measured from outside the premises), which is similar to sirens in use on emergency vehicles or for civil defense purposes.

(Prior code § 20A-11)

No permit shall be issued for an alarm system which, due to the nature of its construction and/or installation, constitutes an unreasonable hazard to life and limb of responding Public Safety Officers, in the opinion of the Communications Director.

(Prior code § 20A-12)

A. .....The Communications Director is authorized to enforce rules and regulations, adopted by resolution of the City Council, governing the connection of private burglar and/or robbery systems to the public safety communications center or other City-approved communications center. Such rules and regulations may prescribe minimum standards for the manner in which the said connections are to be made, the equipment and devices which shall be used to accomplish said connection, and the manner in which the said equipment and devices shall be maintained and their cost defrayed.

B. .....No person, business or concern may connect or continue to have connected any burglary, robbery, fire or medical alarm system to the City public safety communications center or other City-approved communications center, unless and until he or she shall have complied with all such rules and regulations.

(Prior code § 20A-13)