09/12/2006

Houston City Counsel is having a meeting on Sep. 26, 2006 at 10:00 a.m. at 901 Bagby, 2^nd Floor to discuss adopting the following Alarm Ordinance

click here to view. It is to your best interest to be there.

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This Pasadena Police have sent out this notice: 02/01/2006

Dear Alarm User, In an effort to reduce/eliminate the number of false alarms that the Pasadena Police Department responds to, Pasadena is requiring each permit holder to be a responsible permit holder or you risk paying fines and losing your permit.

No Permit No Response Begins January 1, 2006. The Pasadena Police Department shall refuse police response to any alarm notification from an alarm site that does not have a valid permit, unless the alarm notification was a duress alarm, a hold up alarm, a panic alarm or reported to a 9-1-1 emergency telephone number or to the police department by a person other than an alarm company.

The Number of Free False Alarms and False Alarm Fines.

First 3 Free then $50.00 each for 4^th & 5^th, $75.00 each for 6^th & 7^th,

$100.00 for 8^th and permit automatically REVOKED. No permit No Response.

8 False Alarms in the previous 12 months and the permit will automatically be REVOKED. If an alarm site has 8 false alarms in the previous 12 months,

the permit will automatically be revoked. It can only be reinstated if the alarm site has proof of a significant change that would eliminate the false alarms.

2 Call Verification also called ECV (Enhanced Call Verification) The ordinance mandates all alarm/monitoring companies call 2 different numbers prior to calling for police response. Specifically the ordinance indicates “…telephone verification shall require, at a minimum, that a second call be made to a different number if the first attempt fails to reach an Alarm User who can properly identify themselves to determine whether an alarm signal is valid before requesting law enforcement dispatch.” Call your alarm monitoring company and verify they are calling the correct numbers.

It will cost you for not taking your alarm system seriously. Do not wait until you have several false alarms to call your alarm company. If you have one false alarm, call your alarm company immediately and find out why, repair or replace the problem now. If the alarm company will not help you, read your contract with the alarm company and get a new company if you are entitled.

Sincerely

Pasadena Police

Code Enforcement Division

02/01/2006

We will be adding other changes such as cities rules and ordnances as soon as we can. We will also be setting up a section for you to get the various city permit applications here.

Please send your email address to us at tutorsecure@sbcglobal.net so we can keep you up to date on any important changes that you might need to know about.

03/08/2006

All Dealers should make sure that they fix any account that is supposed to send a daily/weekly/monthly test if it fails to do so. If your customer suffers a loss and the account had been failing to test and you did not take action on it or at least notify the customer in writing you could be found responsible for the loss. I can not state the importance of this any other way. Also it causes the central station to waste time handling the same signal day after day. In order to keep our cost down and not have to raise rates please do your part and fix the systems or take the test out. If the system is a fire system and fails to test you must fix it immediately or red tag the alarm. Failure to do so could cost you a large fine or even your business.

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