[Code 1975, § 24-11; Code 1992, § 20-31]
No person shall interfere with, obstruct, mutilate, conceal
or tear down any official notice or placard posted by any City officer,
unless permission is given by such officer to remove such notice or
placard.
[Code 1992, § 20-32]
Any person who shall knowingly and wilfully obstruct, resist
or oppose any sheriff or other officer or person duly authorized,
in serving or attempting to serve or execute any process, rule or
order made or issued by lawful authority, or who shall resist any
officer in the execution of any ordinance, by law, or any rule, order
or resolution made, issued, or passed by the City Council or who shall
assault, beat or wound any sheriff or other officer duly authorized,
while serving or attempting to serve or execute any such process,
rule or order or for having served or attempted to serve or execute
the process, rule or order or who shall so obstruct, resist, oppose,
assault, beat or wound any of such officers or any other person authorized
by law to maintain and preserve the peace, in their lawful acts, attempts
and efforts to maintain, preserve and keep the peace shall be guilty
of a misdemeanor.
[Code 1992, § 20-33; 9-9-1996 by Ord. No. 1106]
It shall be unlawful for a person to intentionally obstruct,
impair, or hinder the enforcement of the criminal laws or City ordinances
by police officers acting under color of his or her official authority
by:
(1)
Using or threatening to use violence, force, physical interference
or obstacle against the officer;
(2)
Providing the officer with false information, either written or verbal,
including but not limited to name and identification; or
(3)
Fleeing a police officer by foot, bicycle or a means other than a
motor vehicle after being directed by the officer to stop.
[Code 1992, § 20-34; 6-24-1996 by Ord. No. 1101; 2-25-2019 by Ord. No. 19-002]
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully obstruct, tease,
taunt, torment, strike, assault, injure, disable, or otherwise interfere
or meddle with any dog while such animal is being utilized by the
Police Department or any officer or employee thereof in the performance
of any function or duty of such Department or of such officer or employee.
[Code 1975, § 24-50; Code 1992, § 20-46; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
The purposes of this division are to create a response system
to be followed by emergency personnel in responding to automatic alarm
device signals and to establish a false alarm assessment of costs
system to deter the continued reporting of false alarms by alarm users.
[Code 1975, § 24-51; Code 1992, § 20-47; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237; 2-25-2019 by Ord. No. 19-002]
The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this division,
shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where
the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
A person engaged in the service of receiving the signal of
automatic alarm devices for the purpose of reporting the alarm to
the City.
Any person or business on whose premises an audible alarm
or automatic alarm device is located.
Any person or business on whose premises an automatic alarm
device is maintained which, when activated, is designed to transmit
a recorded message or other signal by telephone, radio or other means
to the City or to an alarm/security company for transmittal to the
City.
An automatic alarm device which, when activated, emits a
loud sound intended to initiate a response by emergency personnel.
Any device which, when activated, is intended to indicate
a criminal act or other emergency requiring Police Department and/or
Fire Department response.
Each period commencing July 1 and terminating the following
June 30.
Any signal actuated by an alarm to which the Police Department
and/or Fire Department responds, which is not the result of a criminal
act or other emergency.
A standard in the response system in which no police vehicle
will be dispatched nor will any respond to an address where the only
report of a crime or emergency received is an activated automatic
alarm device which has been reported by an alarm user or alarm/security
company.
A system for dispatching City emergency personnel which reduces
the priority assigned in responding to automatic alarm device signals
reported at specific addresses as the false alarms responded to at
those addresses increase over time.
[Code 1975, § 24-52; Code 1992, § 20-48; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
Response modes under this division shall be as follows:
(1)
Response Mode I. Response Mode I shall be effective when the alarm
user or alarm site has less than four false alarms in a calendar year,
and the response shall be in accordance with the following:
(2)
Response Mode II. Response Mode II shall be effective when the alarm
user or alarm site has had four or more false alarms in a calendar
year, and the response shall be in accordance with the following:
(3)
No response mode. No response mode shall be effective when an alarm
user or alarm site has not paid a fine within 60 days of issuance
by the City, and the response shall be in accordance with the following:
[Code 1975, § 24-53; Code 1992, § 20-49; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
(a)
For those specific addresses which are in Response Mode II pursuant
to this division, reversion back to the higher level of service shall
occur following a sixty-day period where no false alarms have been
reported for that address.
(b)
Reversion back from no response mode to the appropriate response
mode shall occur when the fine levied by the City against the alarm
user or alarm site has been paid.
[Code 1975, § 24-54; Code 1992, § 20-50; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237; 2-25-2019 by Ord. No. 19-002]
At an address where there have been more than 20 false alarms
in any two consecutive calendar years, police response will be permanently
terminated until such time as the alarm user, alarm site or alarm/security
company can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Police Chief that
the alarm system is functioning properly. Fire response will remain
the same as Response Mode II.
[Code 1975, § 24-55; Code 1992, § 20-51; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
Any alarm user or alarm site who reports or shall have reported
false alarms to the City shall pay an assessment for costs to the
City according to the following schedule:
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Assessment of Costs System
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Step I
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Shall apply to alarm users or alarm sites who have reported
less than four false alarms in a calendar year. No assessment of costs
shall be levied.
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Step II
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Shall apply to alarm users or alarm sites who have reported
between four and six false alarms in a calendar year. The alarm user
or site shall pay the City $50 for each of the fourth, fifth and sixth
false alarms reported.
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Step III
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Shall apply to alarm users or alarm sites who have reported
seven or more false alarms in a calendar year. The alarm user or site
shall pay the City $100 for the seventh and each false alarm reported
thereafter.
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Any assessment of costs to an alarm user or alarm site that
has not been paid within 120 days of the assessment shall be turned
over to the City Attorney or the credit bureau for collection.
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[Code 1975, § 24-56; Code 1992, § 20-52; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
When an alarm user or alarm site has been notified by the City
that his or her system has been placed in a no response mode, the
user or alarm site owner shall immediately upon receipt of such notice
disconnect or disable any such system that is designed to initiate
police response.
[Code 1975, § 24-57; Code 1992, § 20-53; 11-8-2004 by Ord. No. 1237]
All existing audible alarms shall automatically shut off within
15 minutes after being activated. All new audible alarm systems installed
after October 1, 2004, shall automatically shut off no more than eight
minutes after being activated.
Any audible alarm user or audible alarm site that has false alarms reported to the City shall pay an assessment for costs in accordance with the schedule set forth in § 34-66.
