§ 14-35. Response to alarms.

(a)

Whenever an alarm is activated in Santa Rosa County, thereby requiring an emergency response to the location by the sheriff's department or fire departments and the sheriff's department or fire departments do respond, the sheriff's department or fire department personnel on the scene of the activated alarm system shall inspect the area protected the system and shall determine whether the emergency response was in fact required as indicated by the alarm system or whether the alarm signal was a false alarm.

(b)

If the sheriff's department or fire departments personnel at the scene of the activated alarm system determines the alarm to be false, said personnel 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.

(c)

The sheriff department or fire departments or their designee shall have the right to inspect any alarm systems on the premises to which a response has been made, and he may cause an inspection of such system to be made at any reasonable time thereafter.

(Ord. No. 2007-11, § 5, 5-31-07)