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Home alarm permits and false alarms in Placerville

Placerville's own rules on home alarm permits and false alarms, with the code text for every value.

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Each rule below links to the section of the Placerville Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Placerville's code says

Placerville code What Placerville's code adds
False alarm fees
  • Set by city council resolution.
    Applies: Police response to false alarms after the applicable threshold.
    § 6-14-11 · code text
    The fee for police response as provided herein shall be set by resolution of the city council.
False alarms before a fee
  • After 2 false alarms in a calendar quarter, the user is told further false alarms will be charged.
    Applies: Any quarter of a calendar year.
    § 6-14-11 · code text
    after the police department has recorded two (2) false alarms in any quarter of any calendar year, generated by any alarm user permit holder, the permit holder and the alarm company maintaining the alarm annunciator panel at the communication center shall be notified either by personal delivery or first class mail that police response to any further false alarms will result in a charge for each such response.
Alarm permit
  • Required.
    § 6-14-4 · code text
    No person shall install, connect, operate or maintain, or cause to be installed, connected, operated or maintained, an alarm system upon any property of which such person is in possession without first obtaining an alarm system permit therefor in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.
When a permit can be revoked
  • Excessive false alarms: 3 in 30 consecutive days, 5 in 90 consecutive days, or 6 in 180 consecutive days.
    Applies: The permit may be suspended or revoked.
    § 6-14-11 · code text
    An alarm system shall be deemed to actuate excessive false alarms where there are three (3) false alarms within thirty (30) consecutive days, five (5) false alarms within ninety (90) consecutive days or six (6) false alarms within one hundred eighty (180) consecutive days.
  • Revoked.
    Applies: Excessive false alarms and the permittee had a permit suspended in the 12 months before the hearing.
    § 6-14-11 · code text
    If the chief of police, or designated representative, determines that an alarm system has generated excessive false alarms, and if he further finds that the permittee responsible for such alarm system has had his permit suspended during the twelve (12) months prior to the date on which the hearing is held, the permittee shall have his permit revoked.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a permit for a home alarm in Placerville?

Placerville's code: Set by city council resolution. (Police response to false alarms after the applicable threshold.) (§ 6-14-11); After 2 false alarms in a calendar quarter, the user is told further false alarms will be charged. (Any quarter of a calendar year.) (§ 6-14-11).

General information, not legal advice.

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