Sec. 58-40. Standards for dial alarms.
Dial alarms installed on any premises within the city that will be responded to by members of the police department shall meet the following minimum standards, as determined by the police chief:
(1) The contents of the recorded message to be transmitted by such device must be intelligible and in a format approved by the police chief as appropriate for the type of emergency being reported.
(2) No such device shall deliver an emergency message to the police department more than three times as the result of a single stimulus of the alarm device.
(3) The message transmitted shall not exceed 15 seconds in length.
(4) The time gap between delivery of each message must fall in the range of from ten to 12 seconds.
(5) The recorded message shall be transmitted to a telephone number which has been approved for dial alarm use by the police chief. The transmission of a prerecorded message to any other telephone line utilized by the police department shall be unlawful. (Code 1979, § 27-138)