15.27.050 Fees – Corrective actions – Disconnection.
For County response to any false alarms, the County of Clallam may petition for fees from the owner as follows:
(1) For a response to premises at which no other false alarm has occurred within the preceding 180-day period, hereinafter referred to as a “first response,” no fee shall be claimed.
Upon a second response, the Sheriff shall give notice of conditions and requirements of this chapter to the owner.
(2) For a third response to the premises within 180 days after the first response, the County of Clallam shall assess the owner a $25 response fee. Within five (5) working days after the notice to do so, owners shall make a written report to the Sheriff in the prescribed form setting forth:
(a) The cause of such false alarm;
(b) The corrective action taken;
(c) Whether and when such alarm has been inspected by authorized service personnel;
(d) Such other information as the Sheriff may reasonably require to determine the cause of such false alarm, any mitigating circumstances and the corrective action necessary.
The Sheriff may direct the owner to have authorized personnel inspect the alarm at such premises and/or take other corrective action. All costs of inspection and corrective action shall be borne by the owner.
(3) For the fourth response to the premises within 180 days after a second response, and for each succeeding response within 180 days of the most recent response, the County of Clallam shall assess the owner a $100 response fee. If said fourth false alarm or any succeeding false alarm occurs as a result of failure to take necessary corrective action prescribed hereunder, the Sheriff may order the owner to disconnect such alarm until such time as verification of such corrective action is provided to the Clallam County Sheriff’s Department; provided, however, that no disconnect shall be ordered for any premises required by law or administrative regulation to have alarm system in operation.
(4) In the event the Sheriff or Fire Marshal determines that a false alarm occurred as a direct result of an interruption of electrical power, a telephone line malfunction, or a malfunction of the alarm equipment clearly beyond the control of the person having or maintaining such alarm on the premises owned or occupied by him, the County may waive any claims for fees. Such waiver shall be at the sole discretion of the Sheriff, or Fire Marshal, as the case may be.