A. The term of the annual service contract, and renewals thereto, shall be for a period of one year commencing January 1 and terminating December 31 annually.

B. The agreement of the alarm business to collect from alarm site owners and pay to the alarm administrator an annual alarm registration fee for each alarm site that the alarm business monitors. The annual registration fee for alarm sites newly added during each calendar year must be submitted to the alarm administrator prior to commencement of alarm system monitoring and the fee shall be prorated to the date of alarm system installation. No refund of an alarm registration fee will be made.

C. The agreement of the alarm business to provide the alarm administrator with a list of all alarm sites including the property address, the property owner's name and contact information for the property owner.

D. A false alarm response service fee schedule. The false alarm response fee schedule shall allow public safety service provider response to one false alarm per alarm site in any twelve (12) month period without charging a response service fee. The false alarm response fee schedule shall establish escalating false alarm response service fees for response to alarm sites with two (2) or more false alarms in the preceding one year period.

E. A provision stating that the Town of Breckenridge police department shall not have a contractual or other legal obligation to respond to any alarm site within the town at which four (4) or more intrusion/burglary type false alarms have occurred in any twelve (12) month period, or to any intrusion/burglary type alarm dispatch request for an alarm site for which fees accruing under this chapter have been invoiced but not timely paid, unless there is an in person call for assistance from someone at or near the alarm site that verifies the need for an immediate law enforcement response.

F. The agreement of the alarm business to timely pay all applicable false alarm response service fees for alarm dispatch requests generated by the alarm business and determined by the alarm administrator to be the responsibility of the alarm business.

G. The agreement of the alarm business to make all reasonable efforts to timely collect, or assist the alarm administrator in the collection of, all applicable false alarm response service fees determined by the alarm administrator to be the responsibility of the alarm site owners under contract with the alarm business, and the further agreement of the alarm business to cease to make alarm dispatch requests to alarm sites whose owners have not timely paid any validly assessed fees authorized pursuant to this chapter.

H. The agreement of the alarm business to make at least two (2) separate attempts to at least two (2) separate telephone numbers in an effort to contact the owner or occupant of the alarm site to verify the necessity of public safety service provider response prior to the alarm business making an alarm dispatch request. A second telephone call shall not be required if the alarm administrator has verified the necessity of a public safety response through the first telephone call. Names and telephone numbers of those contacted, or attempted to be contacted, must be provided by the alarm business if requested by the alarm administrator.

I. The agreement of the alarm administrator to forward alarm dispatch requests to the appropriate public safety service provider.

J. The agreement of the alarm business and alarm site owner to comply with such other rules and regulations pertaining to false alarms and alarm businesses as may be adopted by the alarm administrator; provided that such rules and regulations are not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter.

K. Such other terms and conditions deemed necessary and reasonable by the alarm administrator to implement the provisions of this chapter. (Ord. 12, Series 2005)