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1, CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED ORDINANCE NO. 2002 - 193 BY: Mayor Norman Musial AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 559.07 OF THE GENERAL OFFENSES CODE IN ORDER TO INCREASE THE CHARGE ASSESSED FOR FALSE AILARMS IN COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. WHEREAS, North Olmsted Codified Section 559.07 (a) presently imposes a charge of Twenty-five ($25.00) for false alarms received by the Police Department, and Section 559.07 (b) grants relief from such charge under certain circumstances including, but not limited to, the "first" such false alarm; and WHEREAS, the frequency of false alarms arising from commercial establishments and the administrative costs associated with the City's response have continued to increase since the establishment of the false alarm legislation in 1984, and the cunent charge is nat sufficient to offset the administrative costs of the services provided by City police forces; and WHEREAS, the frequency of false alarms arising from residential establishments has not increased significantly, the number of residential false alarms is relatively sma11 compared to commercial false alarms, a.nd the costs of responding to residential false alarms is significant less than that for commercial false alarms; and WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council, based on the recommendations of the Mayor, the Director of Public Safety and the Police Chief, to amend the Fa1se Alarms provisions of 559.07(a) to increase the false alarm charge to commercial establishments from twenty-five ($25.00) dollars to fifty ($50.00) dollars; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED, COIINTY OF CUYAHOGA AND STATE OF OHIO: SECTION 1: That Section 559.07 of the General Offenses Code, entitled "Fa1se Alarms." which presently reads as follows: 559.07 FALSE ALARMS. (a) A charge of twenty five dollars ($25.00) sha11 be assessed for each false alarm received through local alarms, the police emergency panel, the central alarm station system, or for each false alarm received on any other alarm service which the City has given permission to be installed. Such fee sha11 be assessed against the holder of the permit for the alarm which was falsely activated.