What are the rules for having an alarm in Durham?
Any alarm system user who operates an alarm system without a permit as required by City Ordinance shall be assessed a civil penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) for failure to secure a permit, forty-eight dollars ($48.00) for each false alarm answered by the police department, and one hundred dollars ($100.00) for each false alarm answered by the fire department. The operation of an alarm system without a permit is sufficient cause for the police department, upon notice in writing to the alarm system user, to cease responding to further alarms until the alarm system user secures said permit. If the communications center receives in excess of one false police alarm in any calendar month from any single alarm system, the alarm system user owning or leasing the alarm system shall be assessed a civil penalty of forty-eight dollars ($48.00) for each said false alarm. Where an alarm system or systems protects a single business with more than eight thousand (8,000) square feet of alarm exposure, t
