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the City Administrator or his /her designee shall, by regular mail, notify the alarm user that a false alarm has been reported. The City Administrator or his/her designee shall verify the day of mailing by filing an affidavit of mailing in the City records. The notice shall include a copy of the City's false alarm regulations. After receipt of the second and subsequent false alarm reports for a particular alarm system, the City Administrator or his/her designee shall notify the alarm user of each alarm report by regular mail, with affidavit of mailing, and the City Administrator or his /her designee shall inform the alarm user if a user fee is payable. If a user fee is payable pursuant to Section 816.040., the fee must be paid to the City finance department within fifteen (15) days of the date of mailing of the notice, or the alarm user must file a written notice of appeal with the City Administrator or his /her designee within fifteen (15) days of the date of mailing of the notice. 816.060. APPEAL. User fees which have been appealed shall initially be reviewed by the City Administrator or his /her designee. Should the appellant not agree with the decision rendered by the City Administrator, the appeal shall be reviewed by the City Council. The alarm user shall be invited to appear before the City Council. If the alarm user is not present when the Council reviews the appeal, the City Administrator or his /her designee shall notify the alarm user by regular mail, with affidavit of mailing, of the result of the Council's review. User fees, as determined by the City Council, shall be paid within fifteen (15) days of the date of mailing of the City's notice of the Council's decision. 816.070. COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT ALARM FEES. Once annually, notice shall be provided to all alarm users and owners with delinquent alarm invoice(s) notifying them of the delinquency. If the delinquent amount remains unpaid after the payment date specified in the notice, a Twenty -five Dollar ($25.00) administrative charge shall be assessed to each delinquent invoice, and this charge along with the delinquent alarm fee shall be certified by the City Council to the Ramsey County Department of Property Taxes for collection with taxes due against the property on which the alarm system is located. Future changes to the administrative charge shall be made by Council resolution. 816.080. EXCESSIVE ALARM REPORT. When the operation of an alarm system has resulted in six (6) or more false burglar alarms or four (4) or more false tire alarms within 365 days, the City by written notice shall request the alarm user to provide the City with a written report indicating the actions taken or to be taken within a definite time period by the alarm user to discover and eliminate the cause of the false alarms. Said report is to be completed and submitted to the City within fifteen (15) days of the date of the City's written notice. Failure to submit the written report within the time limits provided by the City Administrator or his /her designee shall be considered a violation of this Ordinance. 816.090. HAZARD, MISDEMEANOR. In the case of fire alarms, failure to comply with the requirements of an order of the Fire Marshal shall make the building a fire hazard and shall make the building in relation to existing use a hazard to safety or health or public welfare. Any owner or person, who shall permit such a hazard to exist on premises under his control or who shall fail to take immediate action to abate such a hazard when notified to do so by the Fire Marshal, shall be guilty of 816 -2 7