A. Each audible alarm system shall be equipped with a timing device that will silence or turn off such audible signal within ten minutes of activation. After mailing of written notice of a first violation hereof, the owner of each audible alarm system that is not so equipped shall pay a service charge in an amount established by resolution of the city council for each subsequent violation.

B. It is unlawful to install or maintain any audible alarm which generates a sound similar to sirens used on authorized emergency vehicles or for civil disaster purposes.

C. “Audible alarm” means a device designed for detection of unauthorized entry on the land, building, structure or facility of any alarm owner, and which generates a sound audible outdoors when activated. (Ord. 492 § 1(D), 1996; Ord. 354 (part), 1977; Ord. 328 § 8, 1974)