posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 10:24 AM
by
klehan
Lake Alford, FL, Approves Alarm Permit/Fine Ordinance
Lake Alfred,
FL, wants to jump on the money bandwagon for the city with the tentatively approved law last recently, which means its citizens will have to pay an annual permit fee of $25 to the city to have an alarm system in their homes or businesses or face a $100 fine for not registering.
Fourth and fifth false alarms bring a $50 penalty with fine increases per additional violations. Why not penalize with the third false alarm and free the other residents of the annual fee?
Residents are losing jobs or a working less hours leaving them with less money and are concerned about break-ins as the economy weakens. The city's response is to reach into the resident's pockets and extract some more revenue for the city.
It appears that elected officials meet more often as fund raisers listening to their crying city managers. Residents within the various municipalities are subject to paying for services twice.
The residents are taxed for services and then are expected to pay an additional fee should they need the services.
In disaster situations, this is called price gouging.