§ 22-383. Automatic "911" telephone dialers.

(a)

The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this section, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Alarm means any device attached by wiring or by any electronic components to any structure that when activated by any means will alert by radio wave or telephone wire a predetermined unified government emergency dispatcher of a fire emergency, a medical emergency, or a police emergency.

Automatic dialer means any device attached to any alarm system so designed or programmed that, when activated, will automatically dial a predetermined or predesignated unified government emergency dispatcher of a fire emergency, a medical emergency, or a police emergency.

Phone number 911 means the phone number designated and designed by the telephone company for the calling public to use to notify the unified government's emergency dispatchers of a fire emergency, a medical emergency, or a police emergency.

(b)

No person shall keep, maintain, design, acquire or program any type of alarm system to automatically dial the unified government's 911 emergency telephone service line that leads directly to the police or fire department communication systems, except that nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the use of an automatic dialer or alarm by any physically handicapped person that leads directly to a predesignated and predetermined number maintained only by the fire department for use by the physically handicapped person.

(c)

Any person who shall fail to remove any automatic dialer or alarm upon expiration of 30 days after notice to remove same or who otherwise violates this section shall, upon conviction, be punished by a fine not to exceed $1,000.00, or by confinement in the municipal jail for a period not to exceed six months, or by both.

(Code 1964, § 23-34.3; Code 1988, § 22-306; Ord. No. 64297, §§ 1—3, 1-25-1983; Ord. No. 65498, § 87, 1-4-1990)

Cross reference

Definitions generally, § 1-2; fire prevention and protection, ch.15; alarm businesses and systems, § 19-182 et seq.