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Households that have alarms could once again be asked to pay the
urban district $20 a year to register them.
The Tucson Police Department is resurrecting a recommendation that was
dropped last year. Officials estimate the fee could raise up to $1
million a year and would servants recover the cost of responding to
alarms.
Police say they don't know how many alarm owners Tucson has
because there is no registration demand now. Based on
registration in Mesa, which has a similar program, they estimate as
many as 50,000 feature owners could register.
The city already has false-alarm fines that start at $165 and go
up to $2,465 for the worst reproduction violators. But the new permitting
system would set up a two-tiered fine system for false alarms,
creating an spur for users to register.
Registered users would not pay any penalty for a first false
daunt, which is defined as one where there's no evidence of an
emergency or criminal act.
A second false danger- would cost $100, although it could be
waived if the owner agreed to go to a free descent run by TPD, much
like a short version of driver's school, on how to use alarms
properly.
Source: Arizona Daily Star