a) Alarm Agent: shall mean any person employed by a licensed alarm business whose duties
include the altering, installing, maintaining, moving, repairing, replacing, or servicing of an alarm
system in St. Tammany Parish. This definition shall only include any person who works for an
alarm business as defined in this Section.
b) Alarm Agent License: shall mean a certificate of authorization issued by St. Tammany Parish to
an Alarm Agent authorizing him to engage in that activity under the regulation of St. Tammany
Parish.
c) Alarm Business: means a firm, company, partnership or corporation engaged in the sale,
installation, maintenance, alteration or servicing of alarm systems.
Alarm Business shall not include a business which only manufacturers alarm systems or only
sells alarm systems to retail outlets, or one which manufactures or sells alarm systems to
retail outlets, unless the firm, company, partnership, or corporation also services, installs and
monitors alarm systems.
d) False Alarms: means the activation of an alarm system under circumstances where no police
emergency exists at the alarm site and which activation results in a response by a law
enforcement agency.
e) Malicious False Alarm: shall mean the intentional false reporting to the Sheriff's Office of a
police emergency condition, or the intentional setting off of an alarm which will cause another to
report the signal to law enforcement. However, this definition is not to include the testing of an
alarm system. (Ord. No. 94-2039, adopted 08/18/94)
1. An alarm system user shall pay unto the Parish of St. Tammany a penalty of TEN DOLLARS
($10.00) each for every false alarm responded to by the Sheriff's Department after the third
false alarm generated by the alarm system user within a twelve (12) month period.
2. Any designees of the Sheriff shall give to each subscriber written notice of each false alarm
attributed to that permit user as soon as possible. This written notice may be in any form as
the Sheriff may deem appropriate; hand delivery, or sent by U.S. Mail, “certified - return
receipt” addressed to the person to be notified. (Ord. No. 94-2039, adopted 08/18/94)
SEC.
It shall be unlawful for any person to cause a malicious false alarm to be reported to the St.
Tammany Parish Sheriff's Department. (Ord. No. 94-2039, adopted 08/18/94)
SECS. 15-0927.01 - 15-049.99 Reserved
