Who pulls the permit for a residential burglar alarm, the home owner or the alarm company? We have been having the home owner obtain the permit but its been a pain point for them. Does anyone pull the permit for their customers?
Residential Alarm Permits
That can vary from city to city. We pulled the first one and let the end user do the renewals. We brought the form, filled out and they wrote the check. We mailed it.
U1, we had a similar post here with related comments below. Hope this helps.
The town of Prescott Valley AZ passed a new False Alarm Ordinance several weeks ago that could be a trend. It is the VR-Verified Response template, without need for alarm site registration or permits. It allows private security to be private security, but the small community will have strict enforcement of its few requirements. For example, if the monitoring source does not witness/verify before calling for help they will be charged a “fee” of $500 per call. Also the installing company must provide a copy of the VR ordinance to the new customer, or receive big fine.
See below excerpt from the new ordinance.
The responsibilities and duties of all alarm businesses doing business within the Town of Prescott Valley shall be as follows:
- -----
- To provide each purchaser and subscriber a copy of this Article. This copy shall include the following statement: “The Town of Prescott Valley Police Department responds to all Robbery, Panic and other manually-initiated Alarms. However, the department will not respond to Burglar Alarms unless a Responder at the scene (or Responder away from the scene with video or audio capabilities) verifies that a crime, attempted crime, or other emergency at real property protected by the Alarm is occurring or about to occur”.
- ------
Ask questions and get answers to your physical security questions from IPVM team members and fellow subscribers.