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Amending Section 9-305 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Burglary, Theft and Robbery Alarm Systems," by increasing the penalties for false alarms, providing registration and equipment requirements for alarm businesses and alarm users and assigning and setting forth the duties of administration and enforcement of the Code, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 9-305 of The Philadelphia Code is hereby amended as follows:
ยง 9-305. Burglary, Theft and Robbery Alarm Systems.
(1) Definitions. In this Section, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) Alarm Business. Any business which alters, installs, leases, maintains, monitors, repairs, replaces, sells at retail, services, or responds to an alarm system.
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[(d) Department. The Philadelphia Police Department.]
(e) Code Enforcement Unit. The Code Enforcement Unit of the Department of Revenue.
[(e)] (f) False Alarm.
(.1) An alarm system activated in the absence of an emergency, whether willfully or by inadvertence, negligence, or unintentional act, including any mechanical or electrical malfunction of the alarm system, to which the Police Department of the City of Philadelphia is alerted for response. A false alarm shall not include an alarm activated by: testing or repairing of telephone or electrical lines or equipment outside the premises; electrical power outage; unusually violent conditions of nature or other extraordinary circumstances not reasonably subject to control by the alarm user; and an attempted illegal entry, theft or robbery where evidence of such attempt exists.
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[(f) Intermediary. Any service which, upon an alarm system's activation, accepts and relays emergenc...
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