Tag: false fire alarm ordinance
Fire Dept. will assess new fines for false alarms
August 3, 2011SSN Staff
LINCOLN, Ill.—An Aug. 2 story from the Lincoln Courier reports a new false fire alarm ordinance regulating fees administered by the Lincoln Fire Department won approval Aug. 1 during a Lincoln City Council meeting. The fees are being implemented to help reduce false alarm calls and to generate some compensation for the department's cost of various runs.
The false fire alarm ordinances imposes a fine after the department has received three false-alarm calls at the same location within a year....
Toronto zero-tolerance alarm measure to undergo review
May 3, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
TORONTO—In its fight against a new zero-tolerance false alarm regulation here, the Canadian Security Association scored both “a loss and a win” at a March 30 meeting of a City Council subcommittee, CANASA's executive director JF Champagne told Security System News.
The loss was that, at least for 2011, single family homeowners will not get a break from the city's 2010 zero-tolerance false alarm by-law that would allow them one free false fire alarm before fines of as much as $1,230...
Canadian group leads regulation battle
March 14, 2011Tess Nacelewicz
TORONTO—The Canadian Security Association continues to fight against a zero-tolerance false alarm regulation here, despite a recent decision by a city committee to defer until 2012 consideration of a proposal that would give homeowners a break, allowing them one free false fire alarm annually before fines would kick in.
“We lost the battle for the year, but we sure have not lost the war,” CANASA's executive director JF Champagne told Security System News in February.
He said the...