(a) Council finds and determines that the public interest would be served by the establishment of a method of paying monetary rewards to persons who provide information to the Police Department leading to the apprehension and conviction of persons who cause physical harm or damage to property in Fairview Park by the use of motor vehicles. (Violation of Section 541.03(a)(2).)
(b) Council hereby offers a reward of one hundred dollars ($100.00) to any person or persons who provide information which leads to the apprehension and conviction of any person who knowingly or recklessly causes physical harm (damage) to the lawn area of any property in Fairview Park by the use of a motor vehicle. This offer is limited in that only one one hundred dollar ($100.00) reward will be paid for each such act and for the purposes of this section, a series of such acts which occur in close proximity to each other in time and place shall be considered to be a single act.
(c) If conflicting claims are made for this reward offered by the City of Fairview Park, the City shall be discharged from all liability on paying such reward into the Rocky River Municipal Court, which shall finally determine such claims.
(d) The moneys necessary for the payment of any reward pursuant to this section shall be and are hereby appropriated from the General Fund of the City.
(e) The Chief of Police is hereby authorized and directed to act as recipient of claims for rewards hereunder in accordance with such rules and upon such forms as he may designate.
(f) Upon written certification by the Chief of Police and the Law Director or his designee that the information provided has led to the apprehension and conviction of a person who has knowingly or recklessly caused physical harm or damage to the lawn area of any property by use of a motor vehicle, the Director of Finance is hereby authorized to satisfy the claim for reward pursuant to this section by direct payment to the person who has provided the information or by making such payment to the Rocky River Municipal Court when there are conflicting claims made. (Ord. 88-28. Passed 7-18-88.)