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.“ut_ c.7 5b 18:48 KENNEDY & GRAVEN <br /> P.2 <br /> KENNEDY & GRAVEN <br /> Alfons„AA LAWIli CHARTERED <br /> • <br /> Yna xtsor 470 P llsbar7 Cr.astMtnnellpais,:titlwa�c ota 35402 JAMB J.THt�htSON <br /> 8suC81H.BA7TZSlsoN (61'2}337-9380 L+tltftY T ii'fIITHLIN <br /> RONALD&BATTY BONN.Z WtLYpis <br /> Q7eTt J m FsaltDuly ;,lte(612)337-93i „los Y.YAA NG <br /> JOHNS. <br /> G1t�ygrgG • ` <br /> DAVID J.1;ilITItDY <br /> ' <br /> DAVID L.<%YAtT.N ll,:,.tgc <br /> cUAILsi L-Unmet <br /> LENIN 7N.L 7t iL JR. WR1TEI S DIRECT DIAL nR Hstm <br /> xnacRr C.t:ARes <br /> ac.AOs :T.I.LSNDALL <br /> ROM <br /> ER? <br /> C.LONG uT L DAvtbrtt>N <br /> Ilit <br /> S.otsom <br /> JAMU SfitoMu, t LtNwort U.1...v.,CoRS*NL H.T a1o'4 337-9202 <br /> P;tn�D <br /> Cunt&A.P,.AS.SON <br /> T.JAY:lAL2.024 <br /> • July 23, 1998 <br /> • <br /> Chuck Whiting <br /> City Administrator <br /> City of Mounds View <br /> 2401 highway 10 <br /> Mounds View, MN 55112-1499 <br /> RE: Legal Opinion Regarding Automatic Fire Su <br /> Our File No. MU125-47 PPressioa Systems <br /> Dear Chuck: ' <br /> • <br /> ISSUES <br /> 1• At the July 15, 1996 City Counca meeting, the Mayor requested a legal opinio <br /> on whether the City can require automatic fire suppression systems in newly <br /> constructed buildings or in buildings where the floor area is increasedy <br /> through new additions based on the re <br /> ce No. <br /> 343, Section 60.02 of the Mounds View Municipal Codents set adopted adoptedorth in0 une 27, 1983 <br /> which existed prior to the Code being recodffied in 1388 and in 1993. <br /> 2. Joyce Pruitt has asked whether these automatic fire supprflssion system <br /> requirements, if in effect, apply to the existing building as well as to the new <br /> addition of the building. <br /> SUMMARY ANSWM <br /> 1. The Answer to Issue No. 1 is yes. The City <br /> c fire <br /> suppression systems because Section 60.02 is still in effect in n Moundsre <br /> View. <br /> Because Sections 3.10 and 3.11 of the Mounds View City Charter relating to <br /> the procedures for repealing and recodifying ordinances were not followed to <br /> repeal Section 60.02, adopted June 27, 1983, the ordinance'would remain in <br /> effect. The clause in Section 60.02 regarding automatic fire suppression <br /> systems was inadvertently omitted by the codifiers In the most recent <br /> codification in 1993. It is also clear that the Intent of the City Council was to <br /> • continue in effect the requirements of automatic fire suppression <br /> contained in Section 60.02. According to Rick darson, the City's Building <br /> Inspector, the City has in Pact been applying. these fire suppression <br /> 30.207773 <br /> m123-47 <br />