(A) The City Council is authorized to appropriate money from the general fund of the city, or from moneys 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 materials on or to any public or private property within the city. The City Council may appropriate such moneys for this purpose by including the 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)
GRAFFITI, or other inscribed materials, is defined in accordance with Cal. Gov't Code § 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, 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 $2,000 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.
(F) The city shall not be obligated to offer or pay any reward under this section, 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:
(1) The City Council has not authorized by resolution the appropriation of funds as set forth in division (A) of this section; or
(2) The funds appropriated by the City Council in accordance with division (A) of this section have been expended.
(H) For any graffiti incident for which the city has paid a reward under this section, 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.
('83 Code, § 9.20.050) (Ord. 1052, passed - -91; Am. Ord. 1184, passed 2-20-02)