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Manvel council directs staff to zero out alarm and animal registration fees, asks staff to modernize process
Summary
After a lengthy discussion about modern alarm technology and microchipping, Manvel council directed staff to prepare ordinance language to remove residential/commercial alarm-registration and animal-registration fees (not impound or false-alarm fees) and return for a future vote effective 2027.
Manvel City Council voted on Feb. 2 to direct staff to eliminate annual alarm-registration and animal-registration fees and to bring revised ordinance language back for formal adoption, effective in 2027.
Councilman O'Plager, who led the discussion, said modern, plug-and-play home-security products and alarm-company monitoring make fee enforcement increasingly impractical. "It's impossible… it's gonna be impossible to try to chase that down," he said, arguing the…
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