113 of 1976 - Amending chapter 35, sections 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 18, and 19, defining and setting forth requirements for MULL CALL '\
/ VOTING Aye Nay Salt Lake City,Utah, June 24 ,19 76
Mr.Chairman .�
Agraz I move that the Ordinance be pass .
Green
Hogensen
Phillips r
Result
AN OR DIN E
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING Sections 20-35-1, 20-35-2, 20-35-3, 20-35-5,
20-35-7, 20-35-18 and 20-35-19 of the Revised Ordinances of Salt Lake City,
Utah, 1965, relating to burglar and robbery alarm systems.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1. That Sections 20-35-1, 20-35-2, 20-35-3, 20-35-5, 20-35-7,
20-35-18 and 20-35-19 relating to burglar and robbery alarm systems, be,
and the same hereby is amended as follows:
Sec. 20-35-1. Purpose. Because of the growing number of burglary
and robbery alarm systems being sold and installed in Salt Lake City,
requiring the city police department to respond to alarm signals from
the said systems; and becuase some systems or devices are sold to the
public without adequate installation or maintenance; and because of
the growing number of signals which are not the result of a burglary
or robbery;and recognizing the value of effective alarm systems in
deterring crime and apprehending criminals, it is the purpose of this
ordinance to regulate and license personnel associated with alarm
systems to improve system effectiveness and to reduce, insofar as
possible, the number of false alarms the police department is required
to respond to.
Sec. 20-35-2. Definitions. (1) Burglary or robbery alarm system.
Burglary or robbery alarm system shall mean any mechanism, equipment,
or device which is designed to detect an unauthorized entry, or to
direct attention to a robbery-in-progress, and to signal the above
occurrence either locally or remotely. Provided, however, this
definition shall not apply to any system or part thereof which is
installed, serviced, maintained, repaired, moved or removed by an
organization or company subject to the jurisdiction of the Public
Service Commission of Utah.
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(6) Operator. Operator shall be any person, partnership, corpor-
ation, or association which engages in the business of selling, leas-
ing, installing, servicing, or maintaining burglar or robbery alarm
systems in Salt Lake City, Utah. Operator shall also include any
person, partnership, corporation, or association which engages in the
business of monitoring and relaying calls for burglar or robbery alarm
systems in Salt Lake City, Utah.
(7) Employee. Employee shall be any person who is employed by an
operator and who labors at selling, installing, servicing, or main-
taining burglar or robbery alarm systems, or who labors at monitoring
and relaying calls for burglar or robbery alarm systems in Salt Lake
City, Utah.
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Sec. 20-35-3. License to operate burglar or robbery alarm systems
business. It shall be unlawful for any operator to own, manage, con-
duct, or carry on the business of installing, servicing, maintaining,
repairing, replacing, moving, or removing or causing to be installed,
serviced, maintained, repaired, replaced, moved, or removed in or on
any building or other property within Salt Lake City, any device known
as a burglar or robbery alarm system, or to own, manage, conduct, or
carry on the business of monitoring and relaying calls for burglar or
robbery alarm systems, unless there exists a valid license therefor,
granted and subsisting in compliance with the provisions of this chap-
ter. Application therefor, shall set forth the full name, date of
birth, address of applicant, experience in the alarm business, and
whether or not such individuals have ever been convicted of a crime,
and if a partnership, corporation, or association, the above informa-
tion on all the partners or principals of the corporation or associa-
tion. The fee for such license shall be fifty dollars per annum or
portion thereof.
Sec. 20-35-5. Employee's license to labor at trade or install
burglar or robbery alarm systems. It shall be unlawful for any person,
including an operator licensed under section 20-35-3 hereof, to engage
directly in the installing, servicing, maintaining, repairing, moving,
or removing in or on any building or other property within Salt Lake
City, any burglar or robbery alarm system, or monitoring and relaying
calls for such system, unless such person shall apply for and obtain
a license to do so. Application therefor shall set forth the full
name, date of birth, address of the applicant, his past experience in
the burglar alarm business, the names and addresses of his employers
during the preceding period of three years, and whether or not he has
ever been convicted of a crime.
Sec. 20-35-7. Operator's bond requirement and penalty. Each
applicant for a license, required by Section 20-35-3, shall furnish
to the board of commissioners of Salt Lake City, prior to the issuance
of such license and shall obtain and keep in effect during the life of
said license, a corporate surety bond issued by a company and in a
form approved by the city attorney in the principal amount of one
thousand dollars, and conditioned upon the faithful performance of all
of the provisions of this chapter and upon the truth of all the repre-
sentations and statements made in connection with the application for
such license. Such bond shall run to Salt Lake City Corporation and
to any person injured by reason of the failure of the principal therein
to comply with the provisions of this chapter and the ordinances of
this city and shall be further conditioned for the payment of all
damages that may be adjudged against said principal or surety, and
shall save the city harmless from any and all claims, liabilities, or
demands, arising from any bodily injury or death at any time resulting
therefrom and any damage to or destruction of property, arising in any
manner out of any operation or operations being performed under the
permit required hereunder. Upon failure of the holder to observe all
of the provisions of this chapter, or should it be subsequently
discovered that the representations and statements made in connection
with the application are not true, the proceeds of the bond shall enure
to the benefit and be forfeited to Salt Lake City Corporation as a
penalty for failure to observe the regulations contained herein.
Whenever in the opinion of the board of commissioners the bond
provided for in this section shall be deemed inadequate for the pro-
tection of the city or the public, said board may require the bond to
be in any sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars.
Sec. 20-35-18. Operational defects to be remedied. The sensory
mechanisms used in connection with the robbery and burglary alarm
systems shall be adjusted to suppress false alarms so that the device
will not be actuated by impulses due to transient pressure changes in
water, pipes, short flashes of light, wind noises such as the rattling
or vibrating of doors or windows, vehicular noise adjacent to the
installation,or other forces unrelated to genuine alarms.
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In cases where false alarms are determined to be excessive, as
verified by police records, the police department will contact the
operator or the user in an effort to ascertain the cause of the false
alarms. In the event the cause cannot be ascertained by the police
technician, or if ascertained but not corrected and the police
department so notified in writing within a reasonable period ,of time,
such reasonable period to be determined by the police department, a
written notice may be given to the user and the licensed operator
responsbile for the system notifying him to take corrective action
within three working days, which shall not include Saturdays, Sundays,
or holidays, or, if not so corrected within a three day period, to
disconnect the system until corrective action is accomplished. Upon
receipt of such notice and if not corrected within three days, the
user or operator shall upon the expiration of said three days, imme-
diately disconnect the system. Upon susbsequent correction of the
defective system, the user and the operator shall both submit a
written request to the police department for re-instatement certifying
that full compliance with the corrective action has taken place. When
an operator is responsible for service and maintenance of the system,
non-compliance by such licensed operator, with administrative notices
and directives shall be cause to suspend or revoke the license/
granted pursuant to this chapter. Any user failing to comply with
administrative notices and directives shall be subject to criminal
penalties as provided herein.
In determining whether or not false alarms are excessive at a
particular location, such system at said location shall be judged on
an individual basis.
Sec. 20-35-19. Automatic dialing and pre-recorded message alarm
systems unlawful. It shall be unlawful to maintain, operate, connect,
or allow to be maintained, operated, or connected, any telephone
device or telephone attachment which automatically dials the police
department and then relays any pre-recorded message to report any
burglary or other emergency.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect 30 days after its first
publication.
Passed by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake City, Utah, this
24th day of June , 1976.
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CITY RECORD
(SEAL)
BILL NO. 113 of 1976
Published July 1, 1976
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County of Salt Lake
AN ORDINANCE
AN ORDINANCE_ AMENDING Sections 20-35-1, 20-25-2, Shana D. Palmer
Ord,a. c-u at5. Lake 20-:i5 18 and 2.-:t5 t9 et the Revisetl
Ordinances of Salt Lake City.,Utah,1965,relating to burglar and.
robbery alarm led bms.
Be it ordained by the Board of Commissioners of Salt Lake•
City,Utah; 1Being first duly sworn,deposes and says that he is legal adver-
SECTION I.That Sections 20.35 atinolt harol 20.35tl0,robbery
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ordinance.regulate and rlicense personnel associated wnh
• alarm systems t0 improve system effectiveness and to reduce, That the legal notice of which a copy is attached hereto
s possible,fne numlor false alarms the pence
denarimenl is-required to respond to. I
Sec.2035.2. Definitions.(1) Burglary or robbery alarm
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mechanism,equipment,or device whic is designed to defer.?an 1
authorize.entry, or t0 direct attention t0 a r hberv-rn-I
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asystem o , hereof which installed, serviced, g
inained,repaired,moved or removed by an organization or
combany m gout Ut to the Jurisdiction of the Public Service
Commission of Utah. .
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been convicted of a rim and if a partnership,corporation,or
pri• n:,anon,the above information on all the partners
cipals f the corporation or assocation The tee for such
license snarl be fitly dollars per annum or portion hereof.
Sec-20-35-5 Employee's license to labor at trade or Install
burglar or robbery alarm systems.It shall be unlawful for any
here.,.enflame direct an iY Intthe installing,seor licensed rvicer ing.ail maintain-on
ing,repairing,moving,or removing bier on any building or other I[.
...pert Y within Sall Lake City,any burgh such system,unto s rocc me tints__ 7th _.-------___--- day of
vsfem,or monitoring and relaying calls for
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buisiness oft he ns:e ate"adddreSSenof h l s"mploye,duria
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ecedin'a neriod of three years,and whether or not he has ever
w itn Y0Jd 5]O crime.t hoed requirement and penally,Each
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I to Me board of commiscloners of Sall Lake Cily,prior to the
ouch linen,anti shall nand k. effect during / j',
the ( f - d f Surety bond Issued by a "�•' �./ 1
cienpany no twends..by flit 1 attorneythe
principalamount of one thousand dollars,and conditioned upon ithe1 ton I 1 f all Cl the prov s f thl chapter p� D
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bond shall toSalt Lake City Corporation and i one rs n a Ifort t d t
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with the prov :of thischapter and the ordinances of this city
the Ti alarms
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and shall be further conditioned tor the payment of all damages notice department arfarnee bid not entree}ed see hx•'
that may Sc adludged against said principal or surety,and shall period of Lima,such written
rite nabla aerlotl fo beidrefermined Ce bIHI j
e the cityarising
from any CO all claims,eat liabilities,g ar 1ha licensed aeeretor responslblecfor the system noflfvin user and'
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thisChapter,or should it be B fl discovered that to d if i' r re rh ih d y M¢ alll
• t f t ar 11,of true,thproceeds 1ite in f the bond shall onnection no theto 1 r and 1 f tl II tl 1 mod 1 I fit ct
fne benefit and be forfeited to Sall Lake City Corporation as a'r----- the user atltl nine tmen or snail bolhtsubmfit ae deitten reotuesl Io
penalty for failure to observe the regulations contained herein. ha lice department for relnstafemenlh rti}yirig that lull;
Whenever Imihe opinion of fine board of commissioners the ompliance with the corrective action has taken place.When an
bond provided for this section shall he deemed inadequate for ceteni, is r n ible for 5and maintenance of the
the protection of the el.,su or the'nuolic,sale beard may require system, n v not liancr by.service
icense operator, with
the bond to be In any sum not exceeding twenty five thousand Or ecu srrafie notices and tlireclives snag be cerise e suspend'
dollars. or ev ice the license granted pursuant to this chapter.Are user!
Sec. 20 J51a. Oix.rational detects to be remedied. The t ill ng to comnlvwitnatlminlstrafivenotiees andeirec Nvessha Ili
mechanisms used in connection with the robbery and
be subie<f io criminal Iwnallies as provitled herein.burglary alarm systems notll be adios!eio to suppress raise
In del r love ng wlleher Or not false alarms 6k excessive at
so that the device will be actuated by impulses five to pa rtic--ular location,such system at said location shalt be nudged
transient pressure changes In wafer,nines.short flashes of light, on anindividual basis.
wind noises such as the rattling or vibrating of doors or windows, alarm-203,19.Automatic dialing and are-recurt¢dI ilia ye
veicular noise thereat to he installation,q other forces sysiems lawful. It shall be nlaw•ful t jinn
unrelated to genuine alarms. potato, [(inflect. allow 10 be naiIt I 'perafea,o
connected,any telephone device or telenhoneattac hmentwhlcb
automatically dials he lice department d then relic's anY
Prerecorded message to report burglary or other
5E<TION•2.This ordinance shall take effect 30 gays after Its
»?list pit Passed.
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