A false alarm by-law was just passed by Prince Edward County’s Committee of the Whole in an effort to reduce the number of police responses to false alarms.
It costs the municipality $66 per false alarm and takes two officers roughly an hour to respond to them on average.
The new law calls for a verbal warning for the first false alarm, and then escalating fines of $100 and $200 for the second and third.
All additional false alarms for the remainder of the calendar year will carry a $400 penalty.
The motion passed as part of a package bundled with other by-law changes.
