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<br />City of Arden Hills Chapter 6 - Nuisances and Offenses <br />Subd. 3 Definitions. <br />A. Alarm System. An alarm installation designed to be used for the <br />prevention or detection of burglary, robbery or fire and located in a building, <br />structure or facility. <br />B. Alarm User. The person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, <br />company or organization of any kind in control of any building, structure or <br />facility wherein an alarm system is maintained. <br />C. False Alarm. An alarm signal eliciting a response by personnel of the <br />public safety department when a situation requiring a response does not, in <br />fact, exist, and which is caused by the activation of the alarm system through <br />mechanical failure, pet movement, alarm malfunction, improper installation <br />or the inadvertence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his or <br />her employees or agents. “False alarms” shall not include alarms caused by <br />extreme climatic conditions such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, lightning <br />strikes, utility line mishaps, violent conditions of nature or any other <br />conditions which are clearly beyond the control of the alarm manufacturer, <br />installer or owner. <br />D. Public Safety Department. The designated law enforcement agency. <br />Subd. 4 Reports of False Alarms; Notice to Alarm User. The public safety <br />department shall file a written report of each false alarm with the city administrator. <br />Upon receipt of the first false alarm report at an address, the city administrator shall, by <br />certified mail, notify the alarm user of the provisions of this chapter. <br />Subd. 5 User Fees; Notice. <br />A. An alarm user owning an alarm system which precipitates or reports <br />more than three(3)two (2) false alarms to the City in a single calendar year <br />shall be charged a user fee per false alarm in excess of three(3)two (2) <br />false alarms in a calendar year, and a user fee per false alarm in excess of <br />fifteen(15)ten (10) false alarms in a calendar year. <br />B. Upon receipt of a fourth and all subsequent false alarm reports as to an <br />alarm system, the city administrator shall notify the alarm user by certified <br />mail that the threshold number of false alarms has occurred and that the <br />applicable user fee specified has become due and owing. The user fees <br />shall be established from time to time by Council resolution. <br />Subd. 6 Appeals Process. Any alarm user who is required by the City to pay a user <br />fee as the result of a false alarm may make a written appeal of the false alarm charge to <br />the City Council within ten (10) days of the City's mailing of the notice of false alarm <br />which shall have authority to make a final determination as to whether the appellant is to <br />be charged with a false alarm. <br />6 - 18 <br />Adopted December 17, 2001 <br />