Ritzville City Council approves false alarm ordinance

The Ritzville City Council approved Ordinance 2106 pertaining to false alarms at the regular meeting on Tuesday, March 21.

City Attorney Mark DeWulf said since they reviewed the ordinance at the previous meeting, the city made changes to the verbiage in order to be consistent throughout the document.

The purpose of the ordinance is to reduce the number of false alarm calls in the city and waste of city resources by granting them authority to apply administrative action including fees.

The document states every false alarms requiring emergency responders to assist more than once in a three mont...