Burglar alarm monitoring palm beach county - Board of County Commissioners approved !

burglar alarm monitoring Palm Beach county : The Palm Beach Sheriff‘s Office and the Board of County Commissioners approved a new alarm rule for areas serviced by the Palm Beach County Sheriff‘s Office.

The following are highlights of the rule.
1. Burglar alarm monitoring Palm Beach county companies are required to submit the annual renewal fee for their customers. PBSO will send an invoice to your company for each alarm customer who will renew during that month. The first invoice will be mailed on March 27, 2000. Payment will be due by the end of April. If you receive an invoice for a person who is no longer your customer, please return the invoice, indicating that this is no longer your customer.

2. The approved format may be obtained from the web site or may be faxed to you. PBSO will not waive fines for user error, equipment problems, or basic weather problems. PBSO will waive fines for hurricanes, tornadoes, or power failures greater than two hours.

3. After a 12 month period, ending on March 01, 2001 PBSO will determine your company‘s false alarm rate. Renewal fees will be based upon the following scale. The alarm company will be responsible for the collection and payment of renewal fees. The false alarm rate will be updated each March 01.

4. A second request to respond to the same premises within a 24 hour period will require the response of a key holder. It is the duty of the alarm monitoring company to contact the key holder before this second dispatch request is made. If a key holder cannot be contacted, the sheriff‘s office will not be requested to respond.

5. Alarm monitoring companies shall attempt to verify every alarm signal, except duress or hold up alarm activation before requesting the Palm Beach County Sheriff‘s Office to respond. Violation of this section shall result in a civil penalty to the alarm monitoring company of $125.00 per incident.