LICENSE FEE: $300 fee must be submitted at the time of application. Make checks payable to: City of Milwaukee.

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1 ccl-160 (12/10) PRIVATE ALARM BUSINESS LICENSE INFORMATION SHEET OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK LICENSE DIVISION 200 E. WELLS ST. ROOM 105, MILWAUKEE, WI (414) ADDRESS: LICENSE REQUIRED: Private alarm business license is required of any person engaged in the selling, leasing, renting, installing, monitoring, servicing, altering, moving or causing any alarm system to be sold, leased, rented, installed, monitored, serviced or altered in or on any building, place of business, structure, residence or other facility. Included in this requirement are holders of alarm system contracts. EXEMPTIONS: No license is required of: 1. Sellers of alarm systems from a fixed location who do not visit the site where the alarm system is to be installed. 2. Any person engaged solely in the business of designing the system for the location. 3. Any person engaged solely in the business of confirming that attempted or actual crimes have occurred at the locations of activated burglary alarms. 4. Any in-house private alarm business that does not offer services to the public. Example: If a private alarm business has monitoring services within the same company, either at the same central location or different locations, and all the alarm users at different locations are also with the same company, a license is not needed. SEPARATE LICENSES NOT REQUIRED: If a company has a licensed private alarm business for a central location and the same company has satellite offices that monitor private alarms, the satellite offices do not need separate private alarm business licenses. LICENSE FEE: $300 fee must be submitted at the time of application. Make checks payable to: City of Milwaukee. LICENSE PERIOD: Biennial (2-year period), expiring on December 31 in odd-numbered years, regardless of the date of issuance. NOTARIZED SIGNATURES: The application shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant, if an individual; a partner, if a partnership; a duly authorized agent, corporate officer or member, if a corporation or a limited liability company. The signature of the applicant on the license application must be notarized. A $.50 fee will be charged for applications notarized by the License Division. Commissioned notaries public, including attorneys, must impress notary seals on the notarial certificates issued. [!] Applications submitted without notarizations or seals will be returned. REGISTERED AGENT REQUIRED: All applicants not maintaining a place of business in the state of Wisconsin shall continuously maintain a registered office and a registered agent (a natural person) in the state of Wisconsin for process, notice or demand required and permitted by law to be served on foreign corporations. PRIVATE FIRST RESPONDER SERVICE REQUIRED: Alarm businesses which provide to alarm users alarm monitoring services for the receiving of burglary alarm messages are required to provide to alarm users a private first responder service that verifies, in the case of an activated burglary alarm, that an attempted or actual crime has occurred at the alarm site before the alarm signal is transmitted to the police department. Page 1 of 2

2 ccl-160 (12/10) FINGERPRINTING REQUIREMENT: An individual applicant and all partners of a partnership whose fingerprints are not already on file with the Milwaukee Police Department must be fingerprinted. This requirement shall apply only to the agent of a Corporation, Non-Profit Organization or LLC. Fingerprinting is conducted each weekday (excluding holidays) between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. at the Police Administration Building, 951 N. James Lovell Street (7 th St), Room 305. Applicants can contact the Milwaukee Police Department, (414) , to determine whether fingerprints are already on file, or to obtain information relating to complying with the fingerprinting requirement. FIRE ALARMS, OTHER LICENSES AND CERTIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Persons installing, monitoring, and testing fire alarm systems are required to hold certain additional licenses and certifications issued by other City departments or national certification organizations. Contact a Department of Neighborhood Services Building Codes Enforcement Supervisor, (414) , for assistance in determining which additional licenses and certifications are required. PROCESSING TIME, GRANTING OF LICENSE: The entire application and approval process of obtaining your license generally takes up to 6 weeks. After applications have been filed with and accepted as complete by the License Division, the Milwaukee Police Department conducts background investigations, provided applicants have first complied with fingerprinting requirements. After the findings of the background investigations have been forwarded to the License Division, license applications are scheduled on the agendas of the Public Safety Committee for its recommendation to the Common Council on whether licenses should be granted or denied. The committee generally meets every 3 weeks, excepting that no meetings are held in August. Applicants required to appear in-person for hearings before the Public Safety Committee will receive written notices. REPORT CHANGES: Whenever any fact set forth in the application changes, the licensee shall file a written notice of the change with the License Division within 10 days of the change. A change of agent requires fingerprinting of the new agent within 10 days of the change. LICENSE DISQUALIFICATION: If the Common Council denies an application for a license based on the background investigation, then the same applicant is disqualified from applying for a new license for a period of 12 months from the date of denial. PARTIAL REFUND OF LICENSE FEE: If an application is withdrawn or denied, applicants are eligible for a refund less an administrative fee. Requests for refunds must be made no later than one year from the date of withdrawal or denial of the application. If a permit is not issued, the refund must be requested no later than one year from the date of application, unless the license has been granted, in which case no later than one year from the date of granting of the license. OTHER REQUIREMENTS AND REGULATIONS: Ordinances related to Private Alarm Business are located in s , MCO, and may be viewed online at Page 2 of 2

3 A IDENTIFY TYPE OF ENTITY HOLDING LICENSE. Check ( ) one and complete all required sections: ccl-160b (9/09) PRIVATE ALARM BUSINESS LICENSE APPLICATION OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK LICENSE DIVISION 200 E. WELLS ST. ROOM 105, MILWAUKEE, WI (414) ADDRESS: LICENSE@MILWAUKEE.GOV INDIVIDUAL: (Complete Sections B and E to H) PARTNERSHIP: (Complete Sections B, C and E to H) CORPORATION OR LLC: (Complete Sections D to H) INDIVIDUAL APPLICANT OR PARTNER 1. PARTNER 2. Full Legal Name (Last, First & Middle Initial) Full Legal Name (Last, First & Middle Initial) B Home Street Address C Date of Birth: Date of Birth: (1) IDENTIFY NAME OF CORPORATION OR LLC. Full Name of Corporation or Limited Liability Company: (2) AGENT OF CORPORATION OR LLC. Full Legal Name (Last, First & Middle Initial): Home Address (include City, State & Zip Code): Home Phone Number: ( ) - Date of Birth: % of Stock Held: (3) PRESIDENT OR LLC MEMBER 1. (4) VICE PRESIDENT OR LLC MEMBER 2. D (5) SECRETARY OR LLC MEMBER 3. (6) TREASURER OR LLC MEMBER 4. Page 1 of 3

4 D (Continued) (7) IDENTIFY ADDITIONAL PERSONS HOLDING 20% OR MORE OF STOCK. IDENTIFY CONVICTIONS OF APPLICANTS. Has any person listed in Sections B to D on this application ever been convicted of violating any federal laws, state statutes or city ordinances (excluding traffic violations)? Check ( ) one: Yes No E If Yes, then list the names of the persons convicted, dates of convictions, jurisdiction, violations, and penalties imposed. Attached additional sheets, if necessary. (1) IDENTIFY BUSINESS TRADE NAME AND ADDRESS. [!] If the place of business is not located in the state of Wisconsin, then also identify in Section G the registered agent. Business Trade Name: Business Address (include City, State, Zip code): Business Phone Number: ( ) F (2) IDENTIFY MAILING ADDRESS. Identify the address to which all correspondence related to licensing matters should be mailed. Check ( ) one: Home Address (Section D-2, agents of Corp/LLC; or Section B/C, all others) Business Address (Section F-1) Other Address: (include City/State/Zip Code) (3) IDENTIFY TYPE OF SERVICES OFFERED. Identify the type of services offered by the alarm business. Check ( ) all that apply: Monitoring alarm systems: [!] If this service is provided, then also complete Section F-4 below. Installing or servicing alarm systems Selling, leasing or renting alarm systems Providing private first responder services Other services: List (4) IDENTIFY PRIVATE FIRST RESPONDER SERVICE PROVIDER (if monitoring alarm systems). List below the provider of private first responder services, if the types of services offered by the alarm business, as disclosed in Section F-3 above, include the monitoring of alarm systems for the receiving of burglary alarm messages. [!] A private first responder service is the entity that is required to verify, in the case of an activated burglary alarm, that an attempted or actual crime has occurred at the alarm site before the alarm signal is transmitted to the police department. Responder Business Name: Responder Business Address (include City, State, Zip code): Responder Business Phone Number: ( ) Page 2 of 3

5 G IDENTIFY REGISTERED AGENT (if business not located in Wisconsin). List below the registered agent (for service of process, notice or demand required and permitted by law to be served on foreign corporations), if the place of business, as disclosed in Section F-1 above, is not located in the state of Wisconsin. Full Legal Name of Registered Wisconsin Agent (Last, First & Middle Initial): Business Address of Wisconsin Office of Registered Wisconsin Agent (include City, State, Zip code): H (1) DECLARATIONS, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND DISCLOSURES. 1. The undersigned agrees to inform the City Clerk within 10 days of any substantial changes in the information supplied in this application. 2. The undersigned shall not willfully refuse to provide the services offered under this license, or add charges or require deposits not required of the general public because of race, color, sex, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, handicap, lawful source of income, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, familial status or the fact that a person is now or has been a member of the military service, whether dressed in uniform or not; and not seek such information as a condition of employment, or penalize any employee or discriminate in the selection of personnel for training or promotion on the basis of such information. 3. I have knowledge of the City Ordinances currently regulating the license applied for herein, and being duly sworn under oath, depose and say that I am the person named above and that all statements made in the foregoing application are true and correct. (2) NOTARIZED SIGNATURES OF APPLICANTS. The application must be signed under oath by the applicant, if an individual; a partner; if a partnership; or the agent, an officer or member, if a corporation or LLC. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN TO BEFORE ME THIS day of, 20 Notary Public, State of Wisconsin Signature of Individual; Partner; or Agent/Officer/Member of Corp or LLC Printed Name of Person Signing Above My commission expires [!] Important: Notary Seal must be affixed Office Use Only: Filed: Initials: License #: Granted: Issued: AD: Page 3 of 3