False Alarm Fees

A charge assessed pursuant to this Section shall be considered an obligation owed by the permit holder to the County of Kaua'i and shall be payable within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of the assessment notice.A permit holder who installs a new alarm system or reinstalls an alarm system shall not be subject to a false alarm determination for a period of thirty (30) days from the date of issuance of the permit. An alarm user who obtains a permit for an alarm system already in operation on the effective date of the ordinance codified in this Article shall not be subject to a false alarm determination for the thirty (30) day period immediately following issuance of the permit.A series of false alarms generated by an alarm system, for which a permit has been issued under this Article, as a result of a common cause within any forty-eight (48) hour period shall be considered a single occurrence of a false alarm, provided that:Repairs to the alarm system to eliminate the common cause are made before the alarm system generates additional false alarms after the forty-eight (48) hour period;The alarm user provides documentation of the repairs to the Alarm System Coordinator; andNo additional false alarms are generated as a result of the common cause within the thirty (30) day period immediately following the completion of repairs.A service charge shall not be assessed for the first or second false alarms activated from any premises within a twelve (12) month period immediately following issuance of a new permit. The third false alarm and all false alarms thereafter activated from any premises shall cause the permit holder to be assessed a service charge of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) per occurrence.