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[Fire and Police Alarms; False Alarms; Rewards]
(a) This Section 637 shall be known as the Caution Against Racial and Exploitative Non-Emergencies Act.
(b) Discriminatory Reports to Law Enforcement Prohibited. It shall be unlawful to knowingly cause a peace officer to arrive at a location to contact a person, with the specific intent to do any of the following on the basis of the person’s actual or perceived race, color, ancestry, ethnicity, national origin, place of birth, sex, age, religion, creed, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, weight, or height:
(1) Infringe upon the person’s rights under either the California Constitution or the United States Constitution;
(2) Discriminate against the person;
(3) Cause the person to feel harassed, humiliated, or embarrassed;
(4) Cause the person to be expelled from a place in which the person is lawfully located;
(5) Damage the person’s reputation or standing within the community; or
(6) Damage the person’s financial, economic, consumer, or business prospects or interests.
(c) Civil Cause of Action. Any aggrieved person may enforce the provisions of this Section 637 by means of a civil action.
(d) A person found to have violated subsection (b) in a cause of action under subsection (c) shall be liable to the aggrieved person for special and general damages, but in no case less than $1,000 plus attorneys’ fees and the costs of the action. In addition, punitive damages may be awarded in a proper case.
(e) Nothing in this Section 637 shall preclude any person from seeking any other remedies, penalties, or procedures provided by law.
(Added by Ord. 219-20, File No. 200735, App. 11/6/2020, Eff. 12/7/2020)
It shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to place, or cause to be placed, any article or thing on or upon any sidewalk in such a manner as to interfere with or obstruct the free access or approach to any signal box of the Fire and Police Telegraph System; or without authority from the Chief of the Department of Electricity to run any wire or any of the telegraph poles or fixtures of said systems, or to run, erect or maintain any wire across or parallel with any wire of said system within a distance of four feet thereof; or without authority from the Chief of the Department of Electricity, to break, remove or injure or cause to be broken, removed or injured, any of the parts or appurtenances of said system; or without authority, to make, or fit, or cause to be made or fitted, any key to lock of any signal box of said system; or, without authority, to have or retain in his possession any key belonging to or fitted to the lock of any such signal box; or to pick or force the lock of any such signal box.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
It shall be unlawful for any person wilfully to make or cause to be made any false alarm of fire or any false call for police assistance, or for the police patrol wagon, or for any hospital ambulance of the Department of Public Health, by means of city or any telegraph or telephone systems, or any other way.
(Added by Ord. 1.075, App. 10/11/38)
(a) Every person or persons who give information leading to the arrest and conviction, as defined in this Section, of any person who violates Section 148.4 of the California Penal Code, relating to the turning in of false fire alarms, in the City and County of San Francisco, shall receive as a reward from the City and County of San Francisco a total sum of $500 for each such occurrence. For the purposes of this Section and Section 641 of this Code, "conviction" shall mean a finding of guilty following a trial, a plea of guilt or nolo contendere, or a plea of guilty or nolo contendere by plea bargaining whether or not the guilty plea or nolo contendere plea is entered for violation of Section 148.4 of the California Penal Code.
(b) Every person or persons who give information leading to the arrest or, in the case of a juvenile, the temporary detention, but not the conviction of any person who violates Section 148.4 of the California Penal Code, relating to the turning in of false fire alarms, in the City and County of San Francisco, shall nevertheless receive as a reward from the City and County of San Francisco a total sum of $500 for each such occurrence, unless the arrested person or detained juvenile is found not guilty following a trial or juvenile court proceedings or the prosecutor dismisses the charges for insufficient information. Circumstances under which the person or persons providing the information shall be eligible for the reward include but are not limited to, disposition of the charges in the following ways:
(1) The court issues a bench warrant against the arrested person for failure to appear in court;
(2) The court determines that the arrested person is mentally incompetent to stand trial;
(3) The court places the arrested person in a diversion program;
(4) The charges are dismissed because the person is deported;
(5) Juvenile court proceedings establish that the juvenile carried out the alleged actions; or
(6) A probation officer places the detained juvenile in a specific program of supervision.
(Amended by Ord. 208-86, App. 6/6/86)
The Controller is hereby authorized and directed to pay from any appropriation created for the purpose the total sum of $500 for each such occurrence to the person or persons who give such information leading to an arrest and conviction as set forth in Section 640, or the disposition of the charges by one of the other methods specified in Section 640, provided that a claim therefor is filed with the Controller within 60 days after the conviction or the disposition of the charges by one of the other methods enumerated in Section 640, and the said claim is approved by the Chief of the Fire Department.
(Amended by Ord. 208-86, App. 6/6/86)
[Miscellaneous Conduct]
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