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within t 2 hours of receipt of written notice from the city that it is so programmed. The notice required by paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection shall be personally delivered to the alarm user, or other person in charge of the premises. (3) Sound emission cutofffeature. Except for fire alarm systems, alarm systems which are audible outside the building, structure, or property of the alarm user shall be equipped with a sotmd emission cutoff feature which will stop the emission of sound 20 minutes or less after the alarm is activated. (4) Connection of unregistered system. It shall be a violation of this section for an alarm business to install, connect, or in any maturer make operable an alarm system on premises that have not been registered with the city. (5) Alarm notification on unregistered.premises. It shall be a violation of this section fbr an alarm business to notify the police of an alarm on premises that are unregistered~ or, unless an alarm business has independently verified that an alarm is valid and police response is necessa(% to notifs, police of an alarm on premises for which the alarm business has received notification from the city that police response has been suspended due to five or more false alarms occm~ing within a 12 month period, or the alarm user permit has been suspended or revoked. This subsection does not apply to fire alarms occ-urring on the premises. 3.1 l0 Alarm Systems - False Alarms. (1) Upon the occurrence of two or more false alarms at the same premises within a 12 month period, the permit holder shall be required to pay the false alarm fee established by the city manager ~br the second and subsequent false alarm at the premises. Notification of each false alarm, and/or the notice of the amount of the false alarm fee, shall be sent to the permit holder at the address reflected in the permit in the manner, and containing the information required in rules promulgated by the city manager hereunder. The notice shall advise the permit holder of the right to appeal the false al~ fee in the manner set fbrth in section 2.021 of this code~ and l/hat upon the occurrence of the fifth false alarm, exclusive of false fire alarms, at the premises within a 12 month period police response to an alarm will be suspended except as provided in section 3.105(5) until the permit holder has complied with the verification process of subsection (2) of this section. The verification process does not apply to false fire alarms. A separate record of false fire alarms shall be maintained by the city, and the permit holder may be required to pay the false alarm fee set forth in the schedule adopted by the city manager for the second and subsequent fhlse fire alarms. In addffion to~ or in lieu of the fire false alarm fee or any other penalty, upon the occurrence of the second arid subsequent false fire alarm at the premises within a 12 month period, fbllow'ing the procedures of section 2.018 of this code, the city may impose a~n administrative civil penalty -upon the permff holder. The alarm systems fee schedule may also est£blish a credit that may be applied to offset all or a portion of a false alarm fee for attendance by the permit holder at city approved alarm system educational programs. (2) Upon 1[he occurrence ofthe fifth false alarm at the premises within a 12 month period~ other than fhlse fire alarms, the city shall notify the permit holder and the affected alarm business, if knowi% that police response to an alarm from the premises is suspended, as of the date of the notice. The suspension shall remain in effect until the permit holder provides the city with a certification from the alarm business that necessary corrections have been made to the system~ that Ordinance - 5