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expiration of their permit. It is the responsibility of the alarm user to submit an application prior to the permit expiration date. Failure to renew will be classified as use of a non -permitted alarm system and citations and penalties shall be assessed without wavier. (See Section 17. Violations). (B) Any alarm user having no false alarms during the year will have the renewal fee of $30.00 waived for each year following a zero false alarm year. SECTION 5. PROPER ALARM SYSTEMS OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE (A) An alarm user shall: (1) maintain the premises and the alarm system in a manner that will minimize or eliminate false alarm dispatches, and (2) make every reasonable effort to respond or cause a representative to respond to the alarm system's location within one hour when notified by the Sheriffs Office to deactivate a malfunctioning alarm system, to provide access to the premises, or to provide security for the premises, and (3) not manually activate an alarm for any reason other than an occurrence of an event that the alarm system was intended to report. (4) provide a "swing or shut down" option for active zones within the premises. (B) An alarm user shall adjust the mechanism or cause the mechanism to be adjusted so that an audible alarm signal on the exterior of an alarm site will sound for no longer than fifteen (15) minutes after being activated. (C) An alarm user shall have a properly licensed alarm business inspect his alarm system after 2 false alarm dispatches in a one year period. After a 3rd false alarm dispatch, the alarm user must have a properly licensed alarm business modify the alarm system to be more false alarm resistant and/or provide additional user training as appropriate. The alarm user shall provide the Alarm Administrator with a corrective action report signed by the qualifying agent for the alarm company; a copy will be forwarded to the Sheriff. SECTION 6. DUTIES OF ALARM BUSINESS (A) After July 1, 1999, alarm businesses shall not program alarm systems so that they are capable of sending one plus duress alarms. Alarm businesses may continue to report one plus duress alarms received from alarm systems programmed with this feature prior to July 1, 1999. However, when performing a takeover or conversion after July 1, 1999, an alarm business must remove the one plus duress alarm capability from the alarm system being taken over or Page 6