Subd. 1. The city deems it necessary to provide for the regulations of alarm systems which are designed to signal the presence of a hazard requiring urgent attention to which public safety personnel are expected to respond, in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
Subd. 2. The City Council finds that the regulation of alarms is necessary in order to reduce the increasing frequency of false alarms in the city. The great number of and increasing frequency of these false alarms requires intensive, time-consuming efforts by the Public Safety 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 to all segments of the community, without an undue concentration of public services in one area to work to the detriment of members of the general public, it is decided that the alarm systems shall be regulated through the permit process described below.
(1987 Code, § 601.01)