businesses; crime reporting; penalty; prohibition, the official text

Senate Engrossed

businesses; crime
reporting; penalty; prohibition

State of Arizona

Senate

Fifty-seventh Legislature

Second Regular Session

2026

SENATE BILL 1271

AN
ACT

amending title 9, chapter 4, article 8, arizona
revised statutes, by adding section 9-500.54; relating to municipal
authority.

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Be it
enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1. Title 9, chapter 4, article 8,
Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 9-500.54, to read:

START_STATUTE9-500.54. Businesses; crime reporting; municipal penalties; prohibition;
exception

A. A municipality may not enact,
enforce or maintain an ordinance, rule, regulation, policy or practice that
imposes a fine or any other penalty on a business or commercial entity that is
based on the number of or frequency of requests for public safety assistance or
emergency services made by the business or commercial entity at any location of
the business or commercial entity or that is based on the monetary value of
property that belongs to the business or commercial entity that has been damaged
or stolen.

B. Notwithstanding subsection A of
this section, a municipality may enforce or maintain an ordinance, rule,
regulation, policy or practice that imposes a fine or any other penalty on a
business or commercial entity that is based on the number of or frequency of
requests for public safety assistance or emergency services made by the
business or commercial entity at any location of the business or commercial
entity or that is based on the monetary value of property that belongs to the
business or commercial entity that has been damaged or stolen if both of the
following apply:

1. The requests for public safety
assistance or emergency services made by the business or commercial entity are
any of the following:

(a) malicious.

(b) knowingly
false.

(c) frivolous.

2. the municipality has provided the
business or commercial entity with a written notice indicating that the
municipality has determined that prior requests for public safety assistance or
emergency services made by the business or COMMERCIAL entity are malicious,
knowingly false or frivolous.

C. This section does not apply to
faulty or repeated nonemergency alerts from alarm systems. For the purposes of
this subsection, "alarm system" has the same meaning prescribed in
section 32-101.END_STATUTE