Volusia County Sheriff's Office

Burglar and Robbery Alarm Registration (unincorporated Volusia County)

County Code s. 46-123 applies the alarm article in the unincorporated areas of the county. Under s. 46-126, before installing or using any robbery or burglar alarm, the owner or manager of the premises must give the Sheriff's Office the names, addresses and phone numbers of at least two people who can be reached at all times and can enter and turn off the alarm, and must report changes within seven days. The county's Licenses and Permits page states that burglar alarm registrations, required by county ordinance, are available free at the Volusia County Sheriff's Office locations. Failing to register brings a $25.00 fee, as does each occasion a responder fails to turn the alarm off within 30 minutes of notice. Under s. 46-127, the first and second false alarm responses carry no fee if there was no false alarm in the preceding six months, a third within six months is $50.00, and where the alarm is required by law each false alarm over two in six months is $100.00. A business inside one of the county's cities follows that city's alarm rules.