City of Milwaukee - File #: 051574

• File #: 051574
• Version: 0
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• File created: 3/23/2006
• In control: PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE
• Final action: 4/11/2006
• Effective date: 4/29/2006
• Title: An ordinance relating to the provision and disclosure of private first responder services by alarm businesses providing burglary alarm monitoring services.
• Sponsors: THE CHAIR
• Indexes: ALARM SYSTEMS, LICENSES

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result	Tally
4/28/2006	0	CITY CLERK	PUBLISHED
4/21/2006	0	MAYOR	SIGNED
4/11/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	PASSED	Pass	15:0
3/30/2006	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	RECOMMENDED FOR PASSAGE	Pass	5:0
3/27/2006	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/27/2006	0	PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE	HEARING NOTICES SENT
3/23/2006	0	COMMON COUNCIL	ASSIGNED TO

Number
051574
Version
ORIGINAL
Reference

Sponsor
THE CHAIR
Title
An ordinance relating to the provision and disclosure of private first responder services by alarm businesses providing burglary alarm monitoring services.
Sections
105-75-2-b am
105-75-3-b-8 am
105-75-7-a am
Analysis
This ordinance clarifies existing code provisions that only those alarm businesses which provide to alarm users alarm monitoring services for the receiving of burglary alarm messages are required to provide to alarm users and list on new and renewal private alarm business license applications a private first responder service that verifies, in the case of an activated burglary alarm, that an attempted or actual crime has occurred at the alarm site before the alarm signal is transmitted to the police department. In addition, this ordinance establishes that persons who install, monitor, service or alter existing alarm systems are not excepted from the definition of “alarm business,” and, subsequently, are not exempted from private alarm business licensing requirements.
Body
The Mayor and Common Council of the City of Milwaukee do ordain as follows:

Part 1. Section 105-75-2-b of the code is amended to read:

105-75. Private Alarm Systems and Regulations.

2. DEFINITIONS.

b. "Alarm business" means any person engaged in selling, leasing, renting, installing, monitoring, servicing, altering, moving or causing any alarm system to be sold, leased, rented, installed, monitored, serviced or altered in or on any building, place of business, structure, residence or other facility. Included in this definition are holders in due course of alarm system contracts. Excluded from this definition are sellers of alarm systems from a fixed location who do not visit the site where the alarm system is to be installed [[, or design]]>>and any person engaged solely in the business of designing<< the system for the location [[, or install, monitor, service or alter any existing alarm system...