(A) The Mayor of the City of Canton is hereby required, authorized and empowered to offer a reward of not less than $100 payable to the person or persons who shall be responsible for the arrest and conviction of any person committing in the city the crime of arson as the same is now defined by the penal code of the State of Texas.
(B) Whenever the Mayor shall be informed that any fire occurring in the city was of an incendiary origin, he or she shall call for a report on the same by the City Fire Marshal, and if the Marshal shall report that the fire was caused by the commission of the crime of arson, it shall become the duty of the Mayor to offer the reward above prescribed, which reward shall be in the form of a proclamation duly issued by the Mayor under his or her official signature and attested by the seal of the city, and which shall be posted up in conspicuous places, one of which shall be at the City Hall of the city in accordance with the regulations of the State Fire Insurance Department. Upon information being given by any person who shall cause the arrest and conviction of the persons so guilty of a specific crime of arson for which the reward shall be offered, and after the final conviction of those person or persons, the person so giving the information shall be entitled to receive from the city the reward.
(Ord. passed 5-13-1952)