HomeMy WebLinkAbout409 - OrdinancesORDINANCE NO: 409
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO
CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 8 OF THE RANCHO
CUCAMONGA MUNICIPAL CODE BY ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 8.26
ENTITLED "SERVICE CHARGES FOR FALSE ALARMS" AND PROVIDING
FOR SERVICE CHARGES TO DEFRAY THE COSTS OF FALSE POLICE
ALARMS
A. Recitals.
The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga does hereby ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1: Chapter 8.26 hereby is added to Title 8 of the Rancho
Cucamonga Municipal Code to read in words and figures, as follows:
"Chapter 8.26
"SERVICE CHARGES FOR FALSE ALARMS
"Sections:
8.26.010
8.26.020
8.26.030
8.26.040
Definitions.
Response service charge.
Billing.
Enforcement.
"8.26.010 De fi nit ions.
following definitions shall apply:
For the purposes of this Chapter, the
"(a) 'Alarm system' shall mean any device designed for the detection
of an unauthorized entry on premises or for alerting others of the commission
of an unlawful act, which device, when actuated, emits a sound beyond the
business premises or residential unit or dwelling protected by such device or
transmits a signal or message to another location.
"(b) 'False alarm' shall mean an activated alarm or alarm signal
from any alarm system which is responded to within the City of Rancho
Cucamonga by the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department, but for which no
emergency situation exists or where there is no evidence to indicate that
there was an emergency situation as determined by the responding officer.
'False alarm' shall not include those alarms activated by extraordinary
meteorological, atmospheric, or other conditions or means as determined by
said Sheriff's Department.
"(c} 'Fiscal year' shall mean the period from and including July 1
of any year to and including June 30 of the following year.
"(d) 'Person' shall mean any individual, partnership, corporation,
or other entity.
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"8.26.020 Response service charges. A service charge which is
established by resolution of the City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga
in order to defray costs incurred in providing law enforcement services in
response to a false alarm shall be paid to the City, by each person who
possesses premises, for each third and subsequent police response made to
those premises generated by a false alarm during any fiscal year.
"8.26.030 Billing. The City's Finance Department shall cause to
be issued a monthly bill for the unpaid service charges accrued during the
billing period and any prior periods. Such bill shall be due and payable
within fifteen (15) days after the billing date.
"8.26.040 Enforcement. The amount of any service charge shall
be deemed a debt to the City. An action may be commenced in the name of the
City in any court of competent jurisdiction for the amount of any unpaid
service charges. All service charges shall be deemed delinquent fifteen (15)
days after they are due and payable."
SECTION 2: The City Council declares that, should any provision,
section, paragraph, sentence or word of this Ordinance be rendered or declared
invalid by any final court action in a court of competent jurisdiction, or by
reason of any preemptive legislation, the remaining provisions, sections,
paragraphs, sentences, and words of this Ordinance shall remain in full force
and effect.
SECTION 3: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk
shall cause the same to be published within fifteen (15} days after its
passage at least once in The Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation
published in the City of Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of
Rancho Cucamonga, California.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 7th day of March, 1990.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Alexander, Buquet, Stout, Wright
No ne
Brown
Dennis L. StO~ut, Mayor
ATTE ST:
D~br J A ity C1 erk
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I, DEBRA J. ADAMS, CITY CLERK of the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at a
regular meeting of the Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the
21st day of February, 1990, and was finally passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga held on the 7th day of March,
1990.
Executed this 8th day of March, 1990 at Rancho Cucamonga, California.