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must provide written information to the Alarm User on how to obtain service from the Alarm Company for the Alarm System. (c) An Alarm Company performing monitoring services shall: 1) Attempt to verify, by calling the Alarm Site and/or Alarm User by telephone, to determine whether an Alarm Signal is valid before requesting dispatch. Telephone verification shall require, at a minimum, that a second call be made to a different number, if the first attempt fails to reach an Alarm User who can properly identify themselves to attempt to determine whether an Alarm Signal is valid, EXCEPT in the case of a panic or robbery-in-progress alarm, or in cases where acrime-in-progress has been verified by video and/or audible means. 2) Provide Alarm User registration number to the communications center to facilitate dispatch and/or cancellations. 3) Communicate any available information about the alarm. 4) Communicate a Cancellation to the law enforcement communications center as soon as possible following a determination that response is unnecessary. Sec. 50-95. PROHIBITED ACTS. (a) It shall be unlawful to activate an Alarm System for the purpose of summoning law enforcement when no burglary, robbery, or other crime dangerous to life or property is being committed or attempted on the premises, or otherwise to cause a False Alarm. (b) It shall be unlawful to install, maintain or use an audible Alarm System which can sound continually for more than 10 minutes. (c) It shall be unlawful to install, maintain or use an Automatic Dial Protection Device that reports, or causes to be reported, any recorded message to the Elk River Police Department. Sec. 50-96. ENFORCEMENT OF ALARM ORDINANCE. (a) Excessive False Alarms/Failure to register. It is hereby found and determined that three or more False Alarms within a permit year is excessive, constitutes a public nuisance, and shall be unlawful. Civil penalties for False Alarms and for failure to obtain 5