A. No alarm system shall emit a sound resembling an emergency vehicle siren or civil defense warning. The chief of police shall make the final determination regarding any question of an audible alarm within this section.

B. After the effective date of the ordinance codified in this chapter, no one shall install, modify or repair an alarm system in the city of Marina that has a siren, bell or other signal that is audible from any property adjacent to the alarm site that sounds for longer than fifteen consecutive minutes after the alarm is activated, or that repeats the fifteen-minute audible cycle more than two consecutive times during a single armed period.

C. In the event that an audible alarm is activated and fails to reset itself or continues to activate for more than sixty minutes and the responsible person listed on the alarm registration or other responsible person cannot or will not respond and silence the alarm, and the continued activation of the alarm is creating a disturbance, the police department may cause the alarm to be silenced in a manner determined appropriate for the circumstances. The alarm user shall be held responsible for the actual costs involved to abate the malfunctioning alarm up to a maximum of three hundred dollars. The city, its employees or agents shall not be responsible or liable for damage resulting from such disconnection. (Ord. 2020-03 § 1 (Exh. A), 2020)