Louisville Metro alarm registration is $15 a year. Jeffersontown registration is no charge
Two houses a few miles apart can sit on two desks. A Highlands bungalow files Louisville Metro Chapter 127 with FARU. A Jeffersontown ranch registers with Jeffersontown Police and pays nothing to register. The leftover keypad does not know the difference. You have to. Home Security Systems Louisville takes that ZIP call on (502) 760-0824. SafeStreets is the ADT Authorized Provider that installs. ADT monitors 24/7. This site is not ADT corporate. The lockup is Louisville Security Pros on homesecuritysystemslouisville.com. A permit is not monitoring. Monitoring is not a permit. You can have a professionally installed system and still fail the city’s paperwork. You can file the permit and still have a leftover keypad that is not a live account. This journal is the two desks. How to order is the 502 call. Contact is the same number, not a form.
Packages stay the same on both sides of the city line. Secure+ $53.99*. Smart+ $63.99*. Complete+ $74.99*. $99 install on many plans. 36 months. Free alarm promo ($850 value) on qualifying monitoring*. The $15 Metro fee is extra, on the city’s terms. Jeffersontown’s no-charge registration is extra paper with no dollar. Do not look for a “permit package.” There is not one. How much ADT is in Louisville is the money. Packages is the product page.
Two cities, two desks, one leftover keypad problem
Jeffersontown is an independent city inside Jefferson County. Louisville Metro is the merged government that covers the rest of the in-county addresses most people mean when they say Louisville. Police desks follow that split. FARU is Metro. JPD is Jeffersontown. A 40204 leftover and a 40299 leftover can look identical. The filing does not. Photograph the pad either way. File the desk the ZIP names. Leftover keypads is the hardware article. This journal is who gets the paper.
People copy a neighbor. The neighbor is in Metro and the house is in J-town, or the reverse. The truck can still go to the right house while you file the wrong paper. The neighbor’s desk is not your desk. Confirm the city on the call. A technician comes out. Confirm the calendar. Paper is your week after install, not the technician’s job.
St. Matthews, Shively, Prospect, Anchorage, and other independent halls are not this comparison. They confirm from the ZIP. We do not invent a residential burglar-permit dollar for a city we have not named. This page is Metro versus Jeffersontown because those are the two desks people mash on Hurstbourne and Taylorsville Road.
Louisville Metro Chapter 127: $15 a year, 65 and older exempt
Inside Louisville Metro, residential alarm registration is $15 per year under Chapter 127. Residents 65 and older are exempt from that annual fee. The office is FARU at (502) 574-3278. We name FARU. You file it. Home Security Systems Louisville is not the FARU desk. Give the registration number to ADT after you have it so dispatch can happen the way the city expects.
Old Louisville, the Highlands, Germantown, Crescent Hill, Fern Creek, Okolona, Pleasure Ridge Park, and other in-Metro neighborhoods on this site are Chapter 127 houses for this purpose. 40203, 40204, 40205, 40206, 40208, 40217, 40219, 40228, 40258, 40272, 40291 — those are Metro conversations until a bill or a city limit says you actually sit in an independent city. Say the ZIP. Do not say “Louisville” and assume FARU if the house is in Jeffersontown.
The $15 is not a monitoring add-on. It is city paper. Skipping it does not make Secure+ cheaper. Skipping it can add $15 on a false-alarm bill and can get in the way of the response you thought you bought. File in the week after install, not “sometime after Derby.”
FARU false alarms on a floating year
Metro false alarms run on a floating year. The first is a warning. The second is a final warning. The third and fourth are $50. The fifth and later are $100. An unregistered system adds $15 on top. That schedule is why a professionally installed system with a real walkthrough and a cancel path is part of the order, not a later complaint.
Ask the technician to test every sensor. Ask how to cancel an accidental trip from the app. Teach the code to the people who actually live there. A leftover keypad that still uses the seller’s code is how people burn the warning window in week one. Change it in the driveway. How installation works is the truck. The cancel path is a driveway sentence.
A doorbell clip is not a false-alarm defense. Video is Complete+ when you asked for it. False-alarm control is the walkthrough, the code, and the app. Keep those jobs separate. Porch packages is the stoop article. This journal is the desk.
Unregistered plus $15 is a separate hit
Chapter 127’s unregistered add is easy to miss because $15 does not sound like the story. It is the story if you never filed. A leftover that trips, or a new system that trips, with no registration on file is how a warning becomes a bill plus the extra. File. If you are 65 or older and exempt from the annual fee, that exemption is still a filing conversation with FARU, not a reason to stay invisible.
We will remind you after install. We will not file for you. This site does not collect a permit application. Privacy is the phone-first rule. The 502 line names the office. You do the office’s process.
If you moved from Jeffersontown to Metro, do not assume JPD’s registration followed you. It did not. File FARU. If you moved the other way, keep reading.
Jeffersontown: register with JPD, no charge to register
Jeffersontown Police wants the alarm registered. There is no charge to register. That is the sentence. It is not “no paper.” It is paper with no dollar. Callers hear “no charge” and skip the filing. Then a trip happens and the desk does not have the account the way they want it. Register. Keep the confirmation. Give what JPD asks for to ADT if dispatch needs it.
40299 and 40223 are the ZIPs people mean. Taylorsville Road, Gaslight-adjacent blocks, and the ranches that look like “just Louisville” on a listing are still J-town when they sit in the city. The listing city field is not always the police desk. The ZIP plus the specialist is better. Jeffersontown is the occupancy page.
Gaslight Festival crowds and Taylorsville Road retail do not file JPD for you. A leftover builder pad in a 40299 ranch is still a leftover. Photograph it. Register after the account is live. No charge to register is not a reason to skip ADT. It is not a reason Complete+ is free. It is not a crime score. It is a desk. Monitoring is still $53.99* on Secure+ when you qualify. Paper is still your filing. Builder leftover keypads is the new-build hardware if that is actually your wall.
40299 and 40223 are not a Metro habit you bring from 40204
A Highlands seller who files FARU out of habit will try to file FARU on a Jeffersontown purchase. Do not. A Jeffersontown seller who never paid $15 will skip FARU on a Crescent Hill purchase. Do not. The new address owns the desk. The leftover keypad owns nothing. Photograph the pad. Order the account. File the new city.
Hurstbourne Parkway and Shelbyville Road mash these habits because the drive feels like one city. It is not. St. Matthews 40207 is another independent hall on that same drive. Confirm it. We do not invent St. Matthews dollars on this page. We tell you to confirm. Metro versus J-town is the mash we will spell out in dollars we were given.
Weekday empties toward Hurstbourne offices, downtown, and JCPS bells happen on both desks. Occupancy does not pick the city. The city limit does. Weekday empty houses is the clock. This journal is the office you call after the clock is covered.
St. Matthews, Shively, and other halls: confirm from the ZIP
Independent cities inside Jefferson County are not all Jeffersontown and are not all Metro. St. Matthews, Shively, Prospect, Anchorage, Lyndon, Middletown, Hurstbourne, and others have their own halls. Some share habits. Some do not. We will not invent a residential permit dollar for those offices. Confirm on the 502 call. The specialist will name the desk we can name and will tell you to confirm the rest.
Prospect 40059 can also be an Oldham question. That is a different journal. Louisville versus Oldham and Bullitt is the county line. Do not file JPD because you shop at a Jeffersontown store. File the address.
Jeffersonville 47130 is Indiana. Greater Clark bells, Duke Energy Indiana, a different desk. Confirm the ZIP. We do not invent that dollar here either. Jeffersonville is the occupancy page. Paper follows the river lot, not the Louisville job.
Monitoring packages do not change when the desk does
Secure+ $53.99*. Smart+ $63.99* most popular. Complete+ $74.99*. $99 install on many plans. Free alarm promo ($850 value) on qualifying monitoring*. 36 months. Early termination fees apply. Credit approval applies. Homeowners only. Metro $15 does not make Smart+ more expensive. J-town no charge does not make Complete+ free. There is no fifth package called “permit.”
Cameras yes or no is still the video question, not a desk question. A Jeffersontown board or a Metro house with no board can both skip video and still have a complete indoor system. HOA camera rules if you actually sit on an East End plat. J-town ranches often have no such packet. Count the garage anyway.
Cellular backup does not change at the city limit. LG&E is still the Jefferson County default. Ask the path. LG&E and cellular backup is the outage article. FARU and JPD both want a system that is actually monitored, not a Wi-Fi camera that dies with the router.
House versus condo does not pick the city for you
A downtown condo is Metro. A Jeffersontown ranch is J-town. A St. Matthews stacked unit is a third hall. Occupancy cards change openings. They do not override the city limit. Say house versus condo. Say the ZIP. Let those two facts sit next to each other on the call.
Extra units in Jeffersontown or on Metro lots are extra openings. Say extra unit. A leftover in the main house does not register a shop door. File after the account that actually covers those openings is live.
Tenants do not get the homeowner promotion. Landlords who own the property can order and then still have to file the desk the property sits in. The promotion and the permit are different files. Both care that you own it. Only one is ADT.
File after install. Do not wait for the first trip
The clean order is: call 502, get a date, get the system live, file the desk, give the number to ADT if they need it, then live with a cancel path. People reverse it. They wait for a trip and then discover they never filed. Or they file FARU on a J-town house and think they are done. File the right desk in the week after install.
A leftover that was never taken off the last owner’s filing is not your filing. Start yours. If FARU or JPD needs a cancel on the old account, that is a phone sentence with them, not a reason to delay SafeStreets. Monitoring and paper can move in the same week. They are still two offices.
School-day empties do not pause for paperwork. JCPS bells empty both Metro and Jeffersontown houses. Arm after drop-off. File after install. School-day empties is the calendar. This journal is the form.
What we name and what you file
We name FARU, the $15, the 65-and-older exemption, the floating-year false-alarm dollars, the unregistered +$15, and JPD’s no-charge registration. We name Oldham, Mount Washington, and Shepherdsville on the other journal. We do not name a dollar we were not given. We do not file. We do not pretend this website is Louisville Metro or Jeffersontown Police. We do not pretend this website is ADT corporate.
SafeStreets hangs the panel. ADT answers if a door opens. You file the desk. That split is the adult version of “who do I call.” The 502 line is how you start the first two jobs. The city number is how you start the third.
The Louisville security guide is leftover pads, occupancy, and coverage. Is Louisville safe in 2026 is citywide figures, not a permit score. A $15 desk and a no-charge desk are not safety grades. They are offices.
Call with the ZIP before you copy a neighbor
Call (502) 760-0824 with the ZIP, house versus condo, leftover photo, and cameras yes or no. Hear the monthly, the $99 install on many plans, whether the desk is FARU or JPD, and the date a technician can come out. Confirm that date. SafeStreets installs. ADT monitors 24/7. Louisville Security Pros is the local voice.
If the house is Metro, budget the $15 and file FARU at (502) 574-3278. If the house is Jeffersontown, register with JPD at no charge and still register. If you are not sure, say the ZIP and wait for the specialist to name the office. A 40220 Hikes Point house and a 40299 J-town ranch can share a shopping center and still split a desk. Do not let a neighbor on the other side of the city line pick your form. The leftover keypad will not correct you. The ZIP will, if you say it out loud.