HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1052ORD 1052 $Í ;¢f4 À ORDINANCE NO. 1052
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
AMENDING CHAPTER 9.20 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
TO PROVIDE FOR A REWARD PROGRAM FOR
INFORMATION LEADING TO THE DETERMINATION OF
THE IDENTITY OF, THE APPREHENSION OF, AND THE
CONVICTION OF ANY PERSON OR PERSONS WHO
WILLFULLY DAMAGE OR DESTROY ANY PUBLIC OR
PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
BY PLACING GRAFFITI ON SAID PROPERTY IN
VIOLATION OF LAW
WHEREAS, graffiti is a blight to neighborhoods in the City and
is a violation of State and local law, including Section 594 of the
Penal Code of the State of California and of Section 9.20.010 of the
Baldwin Park Municipal Code; and
WHEREAS, the City is committed to eradicating graffiti through a
variety of approaches; and
WHEREAS, a graffiti offender reward program is an additional
viable tool to combat this destructive property crime; and
WHEREAS, Government Code Section 53069.5 authorizes a city to
establish a reward program to combat willful damage or destruction of
public and private property;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Baldwin Park
ORDAINS as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 9.20 of the Baldwin Park Municipal Code is
hereby amended by adding a new Section 9.20.050, as follows:
9.20.050 Graffiti Offender Reward Program.
A. The City Council is authorized to appropriate
money from the general fund of the City, or from monies
collected through asset seizures, to offer a reward to any
individual providing information to the City leading to the
arrest and conviction of anyone placing or applying
graffiti or other inscribed material on or to any public or
private property within the City. The City Council may
appropriate such monies for this purpose by including such
appropriation in its annual budget resolution, or by
adopting a resolution or resolutions from time to time as
may be warranted in the discretion of the City Council.
B. The term graffiti or other inscribed material" is
defined in accordance with Government Code Section 53069.3,
as the same may from time to time be amended.
C. Rewards may be offered to and paid to any person;
provided, however, that no peace officer, official,
officer, employee, appointee, or agent of the State of
California, or any county or city therein, or any political
subdivision thereof, shall be eligible to receive any
reward offered under this section.
D. The maximum amount of any reward shall not exceed
One Thousand Dollars $1,000.00) per incident.
E. The City Manager and designees shall establish
procedures for public notification of this reward program,
criteria for the offer and payment of rewards, and
procedures for the making of offers to, submission of
claims for, and the payment of, rewards under this
section. In the event of any dispute concerning the offer
of, a claim for, or payment of, any reward under this
section, the determination of the City Council shall be
final and conclusive.
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F. The City shall not be obligated to offer or pay
any reward hereunder, but such offer and payment shall be
at the sole discretion of the City.
G. No offer of reward shall be made or payment made
in the event that i) the City Council has not authorized
by resolution the appropriation of funds as set forth in
A) above, or ii) the funds appropriated by the City
Council in accordance with subsection A) above have been
expended.
H. For any graffiti incident for which the City has
paid a reward hereunder, the offender convicted of that
incident, and if the convicted offender is an unemancipated
minor the convicted offender's parent(s) or guardian(s),
shall be liable for the reward amount paid by City pursuant
to this section.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in the manner
prescribed by law.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED on the 7th day of August
1991.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss:
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I, LINDA L. GAIR, City Clerk of the City of Baldwin Park, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1052 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 17th day of July, 1991. That thereafter,
said Ordinance was duly approved and adopted at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 7th day of August,1991 by the following
vote:
AYES Councilmember IZELL,GALLEGOS,KEYSER, MAYOR PRO TEM MCNEILL
NOES Councilmember NONE
ABSENT: Councilmember MAYOR LOWES
CITY CLERK
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