1. After an identification, apprehension, or where applicable the arrest and conviction, of a person or persons with respect to commission or an act which prompted the offer of reward, the City Council shall determine whether the information received had been:
(a) Either accompanied or followed by, a letter or other written expression of an intent to claim the reward offered;
(b) Received during the term in which the offer of reward was in effect;
(c) Tendered as more than a mere suspicion and was sufficient to provide for the subsequent identification, apprehension, or where applicable the arrest and conviction, of the person or persons responsible in whole or in part for that act which prompted the offer of reward;
(d) Accompanied by sufficient information to satisfy whatever had been established by the City Council as special conditions for payment of the reward; and is consistent with the limitations upon payment set forth in Section 19.127.
2. All decisions with respect to the relevance or materiality of information received, whether or not utilized in establishing the identity, apprehension, or where applicable the arrest and conviction, of any one or more persons provides a basis for payment of a reward, are within the sole discretion of the City Council. The Council may, but need not, include as a factor in its decisions, the consideration of whether there has been a final adjudication by a Juvenile Court under the provisions of the Welfare and Institutions Code of the State of California, or, with respect to a person not under Juvenile Court jurisdiction, a court adjudication which has become final.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.