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As an alternative to the procedure set forth in Section 19.123 herein, the City Council may from time to time offer a reward as to any future event or events, where the activity appears to be in the nature of a terrorist or politically-motivated violent act, upon adoption of an appropriate resolution, motion or committee report, and the City Clerk shall, upon direction of the City Council, advertise the offer of such rewards, in a maximum amount of $25,000.00 per event. Any reward subsequently paid pursuant to such offer will be subject to the provisions of Section 19.126 and 19.127 hereof.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 166,666, Eff. 2-6-91.
Information of whatever form or nature filed with, submitted to, or otherwise received by the City Council, an officer or employee, board, bureau, office, or department, with respect to apprehension, identification, or where applicable the arrest and conviction of a person or persons, and whether or not the information is accompanied by a request, demand, or claim of any reward offered, shall be deemed to be filed, submitted, and received for informational purposes only and no claim of action or property right shall arise therefrom. The City Council may consider any such information as a factor in whatever deliberations it may undertake with respect to a particular offer of reward possibly affected thereby. Neither the filing or submitting of information, nor the receipt or consideration thereof by the City, shall establish any legal claim to, or right of recovery of, any reward offered by the City.
Information received by other than the Los Angeles Police Department shall be immediately transmitted by the recipient to the Los Angeles Police Department, and to the City Clerk for record purposes and for attaching to the appropriate Council File. The City Clerk shall transmit to the Los Angeles Police Department for its use and investigation, any information which that office receives in order that the department may coordinate its activity with those law enforcement and governmental agencies legally charged with or responsible for investigation into and/or prosecution of an event which has become the basis of an offer of reward.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.
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.
A. Payment of any reward or rewards, as provided in this section, shall require City Council approval by resolution, or motion, or Committee report adopted by a majority vote of the whole Council, plus Council instruction to the City Clerk to file the necessary request with the City Controller to cause the reward or rewards to be paid from the Special Reward Trust Fund in the sum or sums, and to the person or persons, then determined by the City Council, subject to the following limitations:
1. No person shall be eligible to be paid by, or to receive from the City any reward for any offer of information unless the information was received by the City during the term the reward offer was in effect;
2. A payment of reward may be for a sum less than that which has been advertised, and may be prorated with respect to the information received and/or with respect to the number of sources from which received, provided, however, that no payment or aggregate of payments of City funds shall exceed the sum designated by any advertised City reward offer;
3. The City Council, in its sole discretion, may determine what portion of a reward, if any, is to be paid to any one or more persons;
4. No reward shall be paid to a City officer, employee, or dependent of such officer or employee, or to a public officer or employee whose employment includes duties of law enforcement; and
5. No reward shall be paid to any person or persons involved in misconduct which prompted the offer of the reward by the City Council.
6. Rewards shall not be paid to persons who have already been compensated by their employer or in some other manner for the actions which are the basis of claiming the reward.
7. No offer of reward shall be made to anyone who is acting as an agent for the suspect(s) or if suspect(s) will benefit from payment of such reward.
8. As a condition of granting a reward, the City of Los Angeles provides that all claimants provide continued cooperation within the criminal justice system relative to the case for which the offer of reward is made.
B. No reward money may be paid without the provisions of this article having been first satisfied and the City Council having first adopted an appropriate motion, resolution or Committee report providing for said payment as provided for herein.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.
Amended by: Subsec. A.4. by Ord. No. 167,418, Eff. 12-27-91; Subsec. A.4., Subsec. A.6., A.7. and A.8. added by Ord. No. 167,418, Eff. 12-27-91.
Interest accruing on monies deposited into the Fund shall be distributed by the Treasurer to the General Fund, and shall not accrue to the benefit of any one or more reward payments.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.
Amended by: Ord. No. 166,666, Eff. 2-6-91; Ord. No. 172,876, Eff. 11-28-99.
All determinations affecting, or dispositive of, offers of reward, except the appropriation of money to the Trust Fund, shall be within the sole discretion of the City Council and shall be final.
SECTION HISTORY
Added by Ord. No. 158,157*, Eff. 9-4-83.
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