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ORDINANCE #08 -XX CITY OF RAMSEY ANOKA COUNTY STATE OF MINNESOTA AN AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 5 WHICH IS KNOWN AS THE 1VIUNTCIPAL REGULATIONS CHAPTER OF THE CITY CODE OF RAMSEY, MINNESOTA. AN ORDINANCE DELETING SECTION 7.82 (ALARM SYSTEM) ADDING SECTION 5.23 (ALARM SYSTEMS) The City of Ramsey ordains: SECTION I. AUTHORITY This ordinance is adopted pursuant to and under the authority of the City Charter of the City of Ramsey. SECTION 2. REPEAL: Section 7.82 (Alarm System) is hereby repealed, SECTION 3. AMENDMENTS Chapter 5 o the City Code is amended by addition of the following Section 5.23. 5.23 Alarm Systems 5.23.01 Purpose. The City Council deems it necessary to provide for the special and express regulation of alarm systems which are designed to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention and to which public safety personnel are expected to respond in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare. The regulation is necessary in order to reduce the increasing frequency of false alarms in the City. The great number and increasing frequency of these false alarms requires intensive, time - consuming efforts by the Police Department and Fire Department and thereby distracts from and reduces the level of services available to the rest of the community. This diminishes the ability of the City to promote the general health, welfare and safety of the community. In consideration for the necessity on the part of the City to provide numerous Public Safety services in one area to work to the detriment of members of the general public, it is hereby decided that the alarm systems shall be regulated by a penalty process, 5.23.02 Definitions