HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 5303 RESOLUTION NO. ,503
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF DOWNEY AUTHORIZING A REWARD
LEADING TO THE IDENTITY, APPREHENSION AND
CONVICTION OF ANY PERSON CAUSING GRAFFITI
WITHIN THE CITY OF DOWNEY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DOWNEY DOES HEREBY
RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION, 1. The City Council of the City of Downey
does hereby find, determine and declare that:
A. Government Code Section 53069.5 and the City
Charter of the City of Downey authorize the City to
offer and pay a reward, the amount thereof to be
determined by the Council, for information leading
to the identity, apprehension and conviction of any
person who willfully damages or destroys any
property.
B. It is in the public interest and the benefit
of the City of Downey that vandals who willfully
damage property by inscribing thereon graffiti
shall be brought to justice.
C. The inscribing of graffiti on structures and
objects located on public or privately owned real
property without the consent or permission of the
owner is a public nuisance and obnoxious because
such markings result in blight and deterioration of
the property with a resulting loss of property
values and business values in the community.
D. The purpose of offering rewards is to
encourage people to give assistance to the Downey
Police Department so that the police department may
better protect the City's property and the property
of persons within the City by identifying,
apprehending and convicting persons responsible for
inscribing graffiti within the City of Downey.
SECTION, a. The City Council hereby authorizes a
reward of Five Hundred Dollars ($500 .00) for information
leading to the identity, arrest and conviction of any person
whose willful misconduct results in the perpetration of, or
aid in, causing graffiti to be inscribed on any structure on
publicly owned or privately owned property within the City
of Downey. "Graffiti" shall have the meaning as defined in
Section 1410.5(a) of the California Evidence Code which
provides that graffiti consists of written words, insignia,
symbols, or other markings which are placed on structures
without the permission of the owner. "Conviction" shall
mean the conviction in a court of law of a person charged
with the crime of inscribing graffiti on a structure or in
the case of a juvenile, the judgment or finding of the
Juvenile Court that the juvenile inscribed graffiti on a
structure within the City of Downey. The City Council
hereby appropriates the sum of Two Thousand Five Hundred
Dollars ($2,500.00) to pay such rewards and no rewards
pursuant to this Resolution shall be paid in excess of this
amount. A claim for the reward shall be made to the City
not later than sixty (60) days after the conviction of the
perpetrator.
SECTION 2. Any person who has willfully damaged
property by inscribing thereon graffiti as defined in this
Resolution, shall be liable for the amount of any reward
paid under this Resolution pursuant to the provisions of
Section 53069.5 of the California Government Code, and if he
or she is an unemancipated minor, his or her parent or
guardian shall be liable for that amount.
SECTION '
A. The City Manager is hereby authorized
and directed to provide any court finding any person guilty
of the act of vandalism as defined in Section 594 of the
California Penal Code for inscribing graffiti within the
City of Downey with information concerning the cost to the
City of cleaning up the graffiti or the cost to the private
property owner of cleaning up the graffiti .and to request
the court to require the convicted person, or if such person
is an unemancipated minor to require the parent or guardian
of such person, to reimburse the City and the private person
for the cost of clean-up and to require such person to
physically assist in cleaning up graffiti.
SECTION 1. The City Clerk shall certify the •
adoption of this Resolution:
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 12th day of
June ,, 19_21.
MAYOR
ATTEST:
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IT LERK
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true copy of a Resolution
adopted by the City Council of the City of Downey at a regular meeting
thereof, held on the 12th day of June, 1990, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: 5 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Hayden, Paul , Cormack, Boggs, Barb
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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