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     237.47 Alarm transmission telephone device; rules. 

    Subdivision 1.    Permission required.  Any person 
 desiring to install or use any automatic, electrical, or 
 mechanical device or attachment to any telephone that reproduces 
 any taped or prerecorded message to report any police, fire, or 
 other emergency to any official emergency reporting telephone 
 number shall obtain permission, in writing, from the sheriff of 
 the county in which located or the police chief or fire chief of 
 the municipality into whose emergency telephone number the 
 attachment or device is connected. 

    Subd. 2.    Conditions for connection.  The sheriff, 
 police chief, or fire chief may determine the conditions, if 
 any, under which the device or attachment may be connected, 
 provided such conditions are reasonable in accordance with local 
 conditions and further provided that the device or attachment 
 complies with the rules of the Minnesota Public Utilities 
 Commission.  

    Subd. 3.    Removal.  Whenever the sheriff, police 
 chief, or fire chief has knowledge of the use of any such 
 attachment or device not operated or maintained in accordance 
 with the provisions of this section, that official may order 
 its removal.  

    Subd. 4.    Penalty.  Violation of any of the provisions 
 of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor.  

    HIST: 1969 c 1057 s 1-4; 1980 c 614 s 123; 1985 c 248 s 70; 
 1986 c 444 

Copyright 2005 by the Office of Revisor of Statutes, State of Minnesota.