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Ordinance 2002-02
Establishing Fines For False Alarms to Police Department
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ADOPTED: January 15, 2002
EFFECTIVE: January 15, 2002
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ORDINANCE 2002-02
• ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING FINES
FOR FALSE ALARMS TO
POLICE DEPARTMENT
WHEREAS, the Town Council has determined that the Town Police Department has
received numerous false alarms and incurred expenses as a result of these false alarms: and
WHEREAS, the Town Council has determined that a prohibition regarding false police
department alarms is compatible with the public interest, safety, health and welfare of the citizens of
the Town of Pulaski, Virginia;
NOW THEREFORE BE IT ORDAINED, by the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski,
Virginia, that the previously enacted Ordinance regulating the false alarms ofthe Fire Department be
amended and read in its entirety as follows:
• (a) Any person who, without just cause, calls or summons,
by telephone or otherwise, any ambulance, or police
department, or firefighting apparatus, or any person
who maliciously activates a manual or automatic fire
alarm in any building used for public assembly or for
other public use, including but not limited to schools,
theaters, coliseums and arenas, regardless of whether
Fire apparatus responds or not shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor offense.
(b) Violation of this section my be fined as follows: the
the first two calls, no fine; 3`d call $50.00, 4"' call,
$100.00, 5`h call $200.00 and 6`~ call $400.00.
(c) A violation of this section may be prosecuted in the
town if the call or summons was made from or if the
call or summons was received in the town.
THIS ORDINANCE is effective upon adoption and is adopted by the duly recorded
vote of the Town Council of the Town of Pulaski, Virginia, on this 15`h day of January 2002, as
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Lane R. Penn - A y e
Kenneth M. Fleenor - ~~
James M. Neblett - ~~_
E.G. Black, Jr. - Aye
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Patricia Cruise, Clerk
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Betty H. Steger - A y e
Daniel Talbert, Jr. - _
Pauline G. Mitchell - ~y,~_
Jeffrey S. Worrell - A Y e -
Town of Pulaski, Virginia
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Charles W. Stewart. Jr.
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I, Patricia Cruise, Clerk of Council, certify that the foregoing Ordinance 2002-02,
Establishing Fines For False Alarms to Police Department, is a true and correct copy as
adopted by the Pulaski Town Council at their regular meeting on January 15, 2002.
Patricia Cruise, Clerk of Council
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