HomeMy WebLinkAbout1683 - ORDINANCES - 3/1/2006 ORDINANCE NO. 1683
' AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SUBSECTION (6.1) TO SECTION
5.02.010 OF, AND SUBSECTION (g) TO SECTION 5.02.075
OF, THE PALM SPRINGS MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
SUSPENSION OF THE CIVIL PENALTY ASSESSED ON A
SECOND FALSE ALARM OCCURING IN A 365 DAY PERIOD.
CityAttorney's Summary
The current provisions of the City's Municipal Code allow the
City to assess a civil penalty for false fire, emergency medical,
burglary, and robbery alarms on the second or any subsequent
alarms occurring in any 365 day period. (There is no charge for
the first false alarm.) This Ordinance allows the Chief of Police
or the Fire Chief to suspend the imposition of the civil penalty
for a second false alarm occurring in any 365 day period on
specified grounds.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Subsection (6.1) is added to Section 5.02.010 of the Palm Springs
Municipal Code to read:
(6.1) "Diversion Program" means any seminar, training, class, or course, approved
by the Chief of Police or the Fire Chief, designed to educate and train persons in the
proper installation, maintenance, and operation of alarms.
.SECTION 2. Subsection (g) is added to Section 5.02.075 of the Palm Springs Municipal
Code to read:
(g) The Chief of Police or the Fire Chief may suspend a fee required to be
assessed for a second false alarm occurring with any 365 day period pursuant to
the provisions of subsection (a) or (b) of this Section, if the person liable for such
assessment successfully completes a Diversion Program.
SECTION 3. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this Ordinance and shall cause the same, or the summary thereof, to be
published and posted pursuant to the provisions of law and this Ordinance shall take effect
thirty (30) days after passage.
ADOPTED this Ist day of March 2006.
Ordinance No. 1683
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ATTEST:
/City Clerk
y CERTIFICATION:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE ) ss.
CITY OF PALM SPRINGS )
I, JAMES THOMPSON, City Clerk of the City of Palm Springs, California, do hereby certify
that Ordinance No. 1683 is a full, true, and correct copy, and was introduced at a regular
meeting of the Palm Springs City Council on February 15, 2006, and adopted at a regular
meeting of the City Council held on March 1, 2006, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmember McCulloch, Councilmember Mills, Councilmember Pougnet,
Mayor Pro Tern Foat and Mayor Oden
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None '
J es Thompson, City Clerk
�City of Palm Springs, California
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