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ORDINANCE NO. NS- 1585 PAGE FIVE day period; or more than four in any one (1) year period. (b) Commencing with the date of a new alarm installa- tion and for six months thereafter, there shall be no charge for the first through third false alarms. For the fourth and subsequent alarms in such six (6) month period, there shall be a penalty assessment of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) per false alarm. At the expiration of the six (6) month period, the penalty assess- ment shall be governed by the provisions con- tained in subsection (a), above. SECTION 10-281. RIGHT TO DISCONTINUE RESPONSE The Chief of Police reserves the right to dis- continue response by police officers to any location of a silent or audible alarm when (1) the alarm user has been given written notice and assessed six (6) penalty assess- ments within a one (1) year period, or (2) the alarm user has failed to pay any such penalty assessment. Reinstate- ment may occur when the alarm user has taken steps to eliminate or correct the problem(s) and has documented the corrective action in writing to the Chief of Police. SECTION 10-282. SUSPENSION/REVOCATION OF PERMITS If at any time it shall come to the attention of the Chief of Police that the holder of an alarm user's permit under this Chapter has violated any provisions of this article, or rules, or regulations made pursuant to this article, including but not limited to, false alarms which exceed the numbers permitted pursuant to section 10-280 of this article or has failed or refused to pay the false alarm penalty assessment fee as provided in said section, the Chief of Police may suspend or revoke the permit. If an alarm user's permit is to be suspended or revoked, as provided hereunder, the Chief of Police shall notify the holder of the permit in writing of his inten- tion to revoke such permit seventy-two (72) hours before the effective hour of the suspension or revocation. SECTION 10-283. APPEALS Any alarm user aggrieved by the decision of the Chief of Police to assess any penalty or to suspend or revoke said permit may appeal to the City Council as pro- vided in Chapter 3 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code. SECTION 10-284. CONFIDENTIALITY Information furnished and secured pursuant to this article shall be confidential in character and shall not be subject to public inspection and shall be kept so that the contents thereof shall not be known except to persons charged with the administration of this article. SECTION 10-285. CRIMINAL PENALTIES Any person who violates any provision of this article, excluding the provisions of section 10-280, Penalty Assessments, shall be guilty of an infraction, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished in accordance with the California Penal Code regarding infractions.