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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE 8 CHAPTER 3 OF THE ORLAND PARK VILLAGE CODE (POLICE; ALARM SYSTEMS)
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WHEREAS, the Corporate Authorities of the Village of Orland Park, Cook and Will Counties, Illinois, deem it in the best interests of the Village and its residents to amend the Village Code provisions relating to alarm systems.
NOW, THEREFORE, Be It Ordained by the President and Board of Trustees of the Village of Orland Park, Cook and Will Counties, an Illinois Home Rule Municipality, as follows:
SECTION 1
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems, Section 1, Definitions, of the Orland Park Village Code is hereby amended to add the following definitions, to be inserted in alphabetical order:
BURGLAR ALARM: An alarm that indicates that a person or persons are unlawfully entering on the alarm user’s property, and that does not require the police to respond in the most urgent fashion.
PANIC/HOLD UP ALARM: An alarm that indicates that the alarm user is in imminent danger and that requires police to respond in the most urgent fashion
SECTION 2
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems, Section 2, Permitted Devices, of the Orland Park Village Code is hereby amended to delete the word “fire” from the last line of that Section.
SECTION 3
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems, Section 5, Application for Permit of the Orland Park Village Code is hereby amended to delete the current title and text in its entirety and substitute the following:
8-3-5 APPLICATION FOR PERMIT; UPDATING OF INFORMATION
A. Applications for permits to install, maintain and operate an alarm system shall be filed with the Orland Park Police Department on the form the Department is hereby authorized to prepare as part of its alarm tracking system. An application fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) shall accompany the completed form. Transfer of ownership or lease of a business or home will require a new application fee of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) if the alarm system is to be used by the new tenant(s).
B. The information contained in an alarm user application required by this section and other information received by the Chief of Police through correspondence or communications with an alarm user shall be securely maintained and restricted to inspection only by the Chief of Police or certain officers or Village employees specifically assigned the responsibility for handling and processing alarm user authorizations in the course of official duties. Neither the Chief of Police nor any employee of the Village shall knowingly or willfully reveal the information contained in an alarm user authorization application or in correspondence or communication with an alarm user to any other person for any purpose not related to this Chapter or official law enforcement matters without the written consent of the alarm user supplying such information.
C. The Chief of Police shall approve an application if he finds that:
1. There is a statement that the equipment complies with the standard of Underwriters Laboratories, Factory Material, Canadian Standards Association or an equivalent organization.
2. The alarm equipment supplier installing the device maintains an adequate service organization to repair, maintain and otherwise service the system sold, leased or installed by him.
3. The alarm application is completed in its entirety.
D. The Chief of Police may impose reasonable conditions on the issuance and exercise of a permit.
E. Approved alarm system permit holders shall update the information in the permit application as follows:
1. Business alarm users shall update all required information in their alarm permit in conjunction with their annual business license applications for every odd-numbered year with a form provided with their business license application form or via the online form available through the Village website. There is no fee for this service.
2. Residential alarm users shall update all required information in their alarm permit every five years or fraction thereof during the years 2010, 2015, 2020, etc., with a form provided by the Village or via the online form available through the Village website. There is no fee for this service.
SECTION 4
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems, Section 9, Revocation of Permit, is hereby amended to delete subsections 8-3-9 1 and 2 in their entirety and replace them with the following subsections 1 through 4:
1. Alarm Permit revocation proceedings may begin after the twelfth (12th) false alarm in a calendar year beginning on January 1 of any year.
2. After the Police Department has recorded twelve (12) false alarms for an authorized alarm user within a calendar year beginning on January 1 of that year, it shall prepare a station complaint and on the same day shall verbally notify the person indicated in the permit to deal with police authorities, informing the person of the number of false alarms and requesting that within fifteen (15) days a written report be submitted describing efforts to discover and eliminate the cause(s) of the false alarms.
3. An alarm user whose permit has been revoked for a violation of this Section will pay a fifty dollar ($50.00) reinstatement fee after resolving the false alarm issue to the reasonable satisfaction of the Chief of Police and before the department reinstates the alarm user’s authorization.
4. If the authorized user fails to submit the report in paragraph 2, above, within 15 days or such longer time as the Chief of Police may reasonably grant, or if said report fails to show that the alarm user has taken or will take reasonable steps to eliminate or reduce false alarms, the Chief of Police may revoke the alarm user’s authorization.
SECTION 5
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems, Section 10, False Alarms and Response Time; Payment of Fees, is hereby amended to delete the wording in its entirety, including the title, and substitute the following:
“8-3-10 FALSE ALARMS AND RESPONSE TIME; FINE AMOUNTS
After six (6) false alarms in a calendar year beginning on January 1 of each year, fines will be imposed as follows:
False alarms seven (7) through nine (9) - $ 50.00
False alarms ten (10) through twelve (12) - $150.00
False alarms thirteen (13) through fifteen (15) - $250.00
False alarms sixteen (16) and above - $750.00
An alarm user or his or her authorized agent shall have thirty (30) minutes in which to arrive at an alarm location to assist police authorities in shutting off any alarm. If the response time is greater than thirty (30) minutes, the alarm user will be assessed a twenty-five dollar ($25.00) fee unless he releases the responding agency from the scene at the time he is advised of the alarm by the responding agency. A false burglar alarm at an open business will be treated as a false panic/holdup alarm and will be assessed a fine of fifty dollars ($50.00) and also count as a false alarm under this section.”
SECTION 6
Title 8, Police, Chapter 3, Alarm Systems of the Orland Park Village Code is hereby amended to add a new section, Section 12, to read as follows:
8-3-12 PAYMENT OF FINES AND FEES; PENALTY
All fees and fines shall be paid to the Village Clerk for deposit into the Village General Fund.
Failure to pay assessed fines or fees for false alarm incidents within thirty (30) days of final determination by the Administrative Hearing Officer will be considered a violation of this chapter and will cause the revocation of the alarm permit pursuant to Section 8-3-9-4. Such revocation does not abrogate the responsibility to pay the fines.
Any violation of any provision of this chapter for which another penalty is not specifically provided shall result in a fine of not more than seven hundred seven hundred fifty dollars ($750.00) for each and every violation thereof, and every day a violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. In addition, any violation of the provisions of this chapter may cause a revocation of an alarm permit granted, pursuant to the procedure and provisions of Section 8-3-9-4.
Alarm users whose permits have been revoked for a violation of this Chapter will pay a fifty- dollar ($50.00) reinstatement fee over and above all other fines and fees that are owed before the Department reinstates the alarm user’s permit.
SECTION 7
If any section, subsection, clause or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid, such decision or decisions shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 8
All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are to the extent of such conflict, hereby repealed.
SECTION 9
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage, approval and publication as required by law.