CONVENIENCE STORE OR BUSINESS: Any business which sells consumer goods, including, but not limited to, alcoholic beverages to be consumed off premises, soft drinks, cigarettes and packaged food, or petroleum products, and which routinely remains open for business twenty four (24) hours per day or any portion of that time between the hours of six o'clock (6:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M., and which usually has on duty two (2) or less employees during the hours between six o'clock (6:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M.
SURVEILLANCE CAMERA: A video tape camera or similar video recording device. (Ord. 3986, 11-15-1993)
A. Requirements:
1. Effective January 1, 1994, every convenience store/business shall be equipped with a functioning surveillance camera. Said camera shall be in operation during all hours between six o'clock (6:00) P.M. and six o'clock (6:00) A.M. while said business is open to the public.
2. Any convenience store or business that has purchased and installed a surveillance camera of any kind during the six (6) months prior to October 1, 1993, shall not be required to upgrade the equipment in question to comply with this chapter until January 1, 1996.
B. Specifications: At a minimum, all surveillance cameras shall meet the following specifications:
1. The surveillance camera shall be capable of recording color images and be positioned without obstruction so as to film all persons entering and departing the convenience store/business and all persons approaching within five feet (5') of each cash register.
2. All surveillance cameras shall be installed by a competent technician who has been trained to properly install said surveillance cameras.
3. It shall be the sole responsibility of the owner of the convenience store or business to monitor the surveillance camera for its effectiveness and proper functioning. Said proper functioning shall include, but not be limited to, the pictures depicted from said surveillance camera providing sufficient clarity to enable reasonable identification of the person or persons filmed. A record of all inspections and monitoring of the surveillance cameras shall be kept and available at all times on the premises and upon demand by the chief of police or his designee.
4. Said film used in the surveillance camera shall be color film of good quality and which is not reused more than ten (10) times or which shall be replaced every thirty (30) days, whichever need occurs first. The purpose of said requirement is to ascertain that the color film produces sufficient clarity to enable reasonable identification of the person or persons entering and departing the convenience store/business. Said color film shall depict the time of the photographing. (Ord. 3986, 11-15-1993)
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