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D. All alarm companies and/or monitoring companies shall: (1) Be properly licensed as required by the State of Florida and any jurisdiction where they have an actual place of business. (2) Communicate alarm notifications to the City in a manner and form determined by the City. § 96-13. - Alarm dispatch records. D. The Sunny Isles Beach Police Department shall forward a copy of the Police Incident Report/Dispatch Report to the City Code Enforcement an r _,.ensing Development Services Department for any necessary follow-up action. § 96-15. - System performance reviews. A. It shall be considered prima facie proof in any alarm system that experiences seven or more false alarms within a fiscal year (October 1 through September 30) that there is reason to believe that the alarm system is not being used or maintained in a manner that ensures proper operation and suppresses false alarms and/or alarm malfunction. In such instances, the Director of the Code Enr^r^ement and T Teens ng Development Services Department shall have the authority to order the alarm owner to attend a meeting with the Police Chief, or his/her designee, and the City Building Official, or his/her designee, where the alarm permit holder and the individual or association responsible for maintenance of the alarm system come to the Police Station to review the circumstances of each false alarm/alarm malfunction. B. As a result of this meeting, involved City staff may require certain improvements to the alarm system that are intended to prevent further false alarms. Failure to either meet with the Police Chief and Building Official or to comply with the systems improvement recommendations shall subject the alarm owner/user to enforcement action as provided for herein. § 96-16. - Canceling false alarm calls. Alarm monitoring companies shall notify the City of Sunny Isles Beach Police Department to cancel dispatches to alarm calls the company initiated within 10 minutes of being notified that the alarm is false by the alarm owner/user or his authorized representative. However, the Gede En fer-.oment and Licensing Development Services Department Alarm Administrator will not cite the company for failure to meet the ten-minute criterion if notification of a false alarm is received before an officer arrives on the scene. Alarm monitoring companies will make available to the City of Sunny Isles Beach Police Department records providing proof that the Police Department was contacted within the ten-minute criterion. § 96-19. - Nonresponse to frequent false alarms.