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<br /> <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />City of Gem Lake, Ramsey County, Minnesota <br />Alarm Systems <br />Ordinance No. 48 <br />AN ORDINANCE REGULATING THE USE OF ALARM SYSTEMS, ESTABLISHING USER FEES, <br />ESTABLISHING A SYSTEM OF ADMINISTRATION OF SUCH ALARMS, AND PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR FALSE ALARMS. <br /> <br />Section 1. Title. This ordinance shall be known, cited, and referred to as “the Alarm Ordinance,” except as herein <br />referred to as “this ordinance.” <br /> <br />Section 2. Scope and purpose. <br /> <br />1. Scope. This ordinance provides regulations for the use of fire, burglary, and safety alarms, establishes <br />users’ fees and establishes a system of administration. <br /> <br />2. Purpose. The purpose of this ordinance is to protect public safety services of the city from misuse of public <br />safety alarms and to provide for the maximum possible service to public safety alarm users. <br /> <br />Section 3. Definitions. <br /> <br />1. Alarm System. An alarm installation designed to be used for the prevention or detection of burglary, <br />robbery, or fire and located in a building, structure, or facility. <br /> <br />2. Alarm User. The person, firm, partnership, association, corporation, company, or organization of any kind <br />in control of any building, structure, or facility wherein an alarm system is maintained. <br /> <br />2.3. Excessive False Alarms. More than three (3) false alarms generated or reported by an alarm user during <br />twelve (12) consecutive months. <br /> <br />3.4. False Alarm. An alarm signal eliciting a response by personnel of the Public Safety Department when a <br />situation requiring a response does not, in fact, exist and which is caused by the activation of the alarm <br />system through mechanical failure, pet movement, alarm malfunction, improper installation, or the <br />inadvertence of the owner or lessee of an alarm system or of his/her employees or agents. False alarms do <br />not include alarms caused by climatic conditions such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, utility line mishaps, <br />violent conditions of nature, or any other conditions which are clearly beyond the control of the alarm <br />manufacturer, installer, or owner. <br /> <br />5. Public Safety Department. The agency or staff designated to respond Ramsey County Sheriff's <br />Department with respect to an alarm system designed to be used for prevention or detection of burglary or <br />robbery; the agency or staff designated to respond Fire Department of the City of White Bear Lake with <br />respect to an alarm system designed to be used for the prevention or detection of fire. <br /> <br />Section 4. Reports of False Alarms; Notice to Alarm User. The Public Safety Department shall file, a written <br />report of each false alarm with the Administrator of this OrdinanceGem Lake City Clerk . Upon receipt of the first <br />false alarm report at an address, the Administrator Clerk shall, bye certified mail, notify the alarm user of the <br />provisions of this ordinance. <br /> <br />Section 5. User Fees; Notice. An alarm user owning an alarm system which precipitates or reports excessive more <br />than three (3) false alarms in a calendar year shall be subject to a penalty fee as determined by the City’s fee <br />schedule as adopted by ordinance. of $50.00 per false alarm in excess of three (3) and $150.00 per false alarm in <br />excess of fifteen (15) false alarms in a calendar year. Upon receipt of a fourth (4th), and all subsequent false alarms <br />reports as to an alarm system, the Administrator Clerk shall notify the alarm user by certified mail that the threshold <br />number of false alarms has occurred, and that the applicable user fee, specified in the previous sentenceCity of Gem <br />Lake Fee Schedule as adopted by ordinance, hereof has become due and owing.ris owed.