Appeals

(a)

A hearing officer shall be appointed by the chief of police to hear appeals from alarm users on the issue of whether the alarm system in question activated a false alarm, as determined by a police officer at the scene of such activated alarm.

(b)

Upon receipt of any false alarm report from the city, the alarm user shall have ten days, orally or in writing, to request a hearing before the said hearing officer.

(c)

At the hearing, which must be scheduled and concluded within 15 days from the date the request for same is received, the alarm user shall have the right to present evidence and testimony.

(d)

The hearing officer shall make written findings available to the alarm user and the chief of police within ten days from the date the hearing is concluded.

(e)

A decision by the chief of police, or his/her designee, to uphold or to cancel the false alarm report which is the subject of the herein section must be made within ten days from the receipt of the above findings by the chief of police.

(f)

Until all of the steps set forth in this section have been completed, the false alarm in question will be considered to have been genuine and will not be considered the basis for the prima facie presumption that the involved alarm system is malfunctioning.

(Ord. No. 9203, § 1(8), 11-26-80; Code 1980, § 3.5-28; Ord. No. 13676, § 2, 4-27-17)