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ORDINANCE NS-2196 ~64 Page 2 will render service or repairs during any hour of the day or night. Every application for an alarm user's license shall be accompanied by payment of a fee in such amount as shall be established by resolution of the city council. SECT_~: That section 10-277 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows. ~s~o 10-277. Correotio~ of information. Whenever any change occurs relating to the written information as may be required in section 10-276, alarm user's license, the license holder or his designate shall give written notice of such change to the chief of police within five (5) working days. SECTION 4: That section 10-280 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows. Soo. 10-280. False alarm penalty assessment. (a) When any emergency alarms, messages, signals or notices are received by the police department showing that an alarm user has failed to meet any of the requirements of this article, the chief of police is authorized to demand that the user of that alarm system disconnect the system until it is made to comply with said requirements. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (c) and (d) of this section, any person having an alarm system which results in a police response in which the alarm proves to be a false alarm shall pay a penalty assessment fee to the City of Santa Ana in such amount as shall be established by resolution of the city council. The penalty assessment for false alarms from alarms designed to be activated while the business is open and/or occupied and requiring activation by an employee, or a residential alarm designed to be activated by the tenant from within the residence, which indicate the commission of a crime defined by California Penal Code section 211 (Robbery) may be higher than the penalty assessment for other false alarms. (c) Penalty assessments shall only be made for false alarms which number: more than one (1) in any thirty-day period; or more than two (2) within any ninety-day period; or more than three (3) within any one-hundred-eighty-day period; or more than four (4) within any one-year period. (d) Commencing with the date of a new alarm installation and for six (6) months thereafter, there shall be no charge for the first through third false alarms.