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Section
19.120 Authorization.
19.121 Terminology.
19.122 Fund.
19.123 Reward Offer Procedures.
19.124 Effective Date.
19.124.1 Alternative Offer Procedures for Prospective Events.
19.125 Information Received.
19.126 City Council Review.
19.127 Payment.
19.128 Trust Fund Disposition.
19.129 City Council Determinations.
The City may offer and pay rewards pursuant to its existing reward program as redefined herein, and as authorized by those provisions of Sections 53069.5 and 53069.7 of the Government Code of the State of California. The City hereby adopts this chapter as its reward program.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 150,389, Eff. 12-5-77.
Amended by: Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83; Term “Chapter” became “Article”, Main Title of Chapter 12, Ord. No. 164,743, Eff. 5-21-89.
* Reward offers by the City prior to the effective date of this ordinance and not paid or otherwise terminated at that time, shall not terminate or be otherwise affected by this ordinance but instead shall be processed, and appropriations for rewards, if any, shall be paid pursuant to the law as it existed at the time of the offer of reward.
(a) “Criminal Justice Personnel” means a prosecutor, assistant prosecutor or deputy prosecutor of any local, state or federal prosecutor’s office; or a judge, magistrate, commissioner, former judge, former magistrate or former commissioner of any court of record in the local, state, or federal system, against whom a criminal act was committed in retaliation for, or to prevent, the victim’s performance of the victim’s official duties.
(b) “Public Safety Personnel” means a peace officer as defined in State of California Penal Code section 7(8), or a firefighter or emergency rescue personnel as defined in Penal Code section 245.1, engaged in the performance of their duties, whom the suspect knew or reasonably should have known was a peace officer, firefighter or emergency rescue personnel, during the commission of the criminal act.
(c) “Reward” means an authorized payment of monetary compensation to a person or persons for:
1. Information received by the City leading to the determination of the identity and apprehension of a person or persons whose willful misconduct has resulted in injury or death to a person or persons, or who has willfully damaged or destroyed any property; or
2. Coming to the aid of a City of Los Angeles police officer, or for the furnishing of information to the City leading to the arrest and conviction of any person or persons who killed, assaulted with a deadly weapon, or inflicted serious bodily harm upon a police officer of the City.
(d) “Witness to a Crime” means a person against whom a criminal act was committed that prevented, or that was in retaliation for, the person’s testimony in a criminal or juvenile proceeding.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.
Amended by: Ord. No. 175,927, Eff. 5-26-04; Subsec. (c)2., Ord. No. 181,615, Eff. 4-25-11.
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