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Home alarm permits and false alarms in Santa Maria

Santa Maria's own rules on home alarm permits and false alarms, with the code text for every value.

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Each rule below links to the section of the Santa Maria Municipal Code it was read from, with the code text one click away (checked October 2026). General information, not legal advice.

What Santa Maria's code says

Santa Maria code What Santa Maria's code adds
False alarm fees
  • A service charge set by resolution, charged from the second false fire alarm at the same address in 12 months.
    Applies: False fire alarms that bring a fire department response.
    § 5-2.09 · code text
    the Fire Chief or his/her designee is authorized to assess a service charge, as set forth by resolution, against the person owning or responsible for an alarm system when a fire department response occurs as a result of the second false alarm at the same address or location within any twelve-month period, and for each subsequent false alarm thereafter
False alarms before a fee
  • The first false fire alarm in a 12-month period at the same address is not charged.
    Applies: False fire alarms.
    § 5-2.09 · code text
    the second false alarm at the same address or location within any twelve-month period
Alarm permit
  • A city alarm permit is required for each alarm that sounds outside the structure or signals a remote point.
    Applies: Burglary, holdup or fire alarm systems.
    § 5-2.03 · code text
    It is unlawful for any person, corporation, business, commercial establishment or residence to possess any unauthorized type of alarm or any operating burglary, holdup or fire alarm system designed to annunciate audibly outside the confines of any structure or real property or to annunciate at any reception point remote from the annunciating alarm unless a City alarm permit has been issued for each alarm.

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Frequently asked questions

Do I need a permit for a home alarm in Santa Maria?

Santa Maria's code: A service charge set by resolution, charged from the second false fire alarm at the same address in 12 months. (False fire alarms that bring a fire department response.) (§ 5-2.09); The first false fire alarm in a 12-month period at the same address is not charged. (False fire alarms.) (§ 5-2.09).

General information, not legal advice.

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