§ 9:420. Automatic telephone dialing equipment.

(a)

Automatic dialing services designed to transmit signals directly to the communications center of the police department, the sheriff's office or the medical communications office, which is reached by dialing 911, are prohibited.

(b)

A primary trunk line as defined herein may be interconnected to the communications center of the police department. Before such a line is interconnected, the person performing this operation shall first obtain instructions from the police department concerning procedure to be followed; and the person wishing to interconnect such primary trunk line shall bear all the costs of the installment and maintenance of any such line. Additionally, the person interconnecting a primary trunk line to the communications center of the police department shall pay the city through the police department a monthly fee in the amount of fifty dollars ($50.00) for each alarm system serviced by the trunk line to cover the cost to the city of providing personnel to monitor the primary trunk line.

(c)

Every primary trunk line user shall pay to the city-parish through the chief of police a penalty of ten dollars ($10.00) for each and every false alarm which was generated by the user subsequent to the fifth false alarm in any one (1) calendar year.

(d)

Every alarm user having a primary trunk line connected with the communications center of the police department shall in all other respects possess a valid alarm user permit upon which application shall be included an indication that the alarm user is connected with the communications center by a primary trunk line.

(Ord. No. 8206, § 1, 9-10-86; Ord. No. 8391, § 1, 4-22-87; Ord. No. 8454, § 1, 7-8-87; Ord. No. 9030, § 8, 12-13-89; Ord. No. 9515, § 3, 10-28-92; Ord. No. 11072, § 1, 2-11-98; Ord. No. 15302, § 1, 4-25-12)