ORDINANCE 1131ORDINANCE NO. 1131
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 9.06.120 TO
CHAPTER 9.06, TITLE 9 OF THE EL SEGUNDO
MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO THE USE OF
MULTIPLE POLICE RESPONSES TO LARGE
GATHERINGS.
WHEREAS, City Council is desirous of addressing the problem
of multiple police responses to large disorderly crowds at
parties; and
WHEREAS, multiple police responses deplete the City's
ability to handle more pressing calls for service and become an
unnecessary burden on the general taxpayers; and
WHEREAS, City Council is desirous of having those persons
responsible for such events take precautions to prevent such
events from occurring, react more quickly to remedy problems when
they do occur, and cooperate more readily with police personnel
charged with handling these disturbances in order to decrease the
necessity for second responses, and be financially responsible
for resultant costs and damages.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 9.06.120, Chapter 9.06, Title 9, shall
be added to the E1 Segundo Municipal Code to read as follows:
"USE OF POLICEMEN AT LARGE PARTIES OR GATHERINGS REQUIRING A
SECOND RESPONSE.
When a large party or gathering occurs at a premises and a
police officer at the scene determines that there is a threat to
the public peace, health, safety or general welfare, the person
in charge of the premises and the person responsible for the
event, or if either of those persons is a minor, then the parents
or guardians of that minor, will be held jointly and severally
liable for the cost of providing police personnel on special
security assignment over and above the services normally provided
by the department. The police personnel utilized during a second
response after the first warning, to control the threat to the
public peace, health, safety or general welfare, shall be deemed
to be on special security assignment over and above the services
normally provided. The costs of such special security assignment
may include minor damages to City property and /or injuries to
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City personnel. A fee charged will not be in excess of $500 for
a single incident. The City reserves its legal options to elect
any other legal remedies when said costs or damage exceed $500.11
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective at
midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the
final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 3. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall
cause the same to be entered in the book of original ordinances
of said city; shall make a minute of the passage and adoption
thereof in the records of the meeting at which the same is passed
and adopted; and shall within fifteen days after the passage and
adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1
Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of general circulation,
published and circulated within said City of E1 Segundo and which
is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED on JANUARY 3rd,
Mayor of the
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Ronald L. Hart City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo,
California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of members of
the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing
ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1131 is a full, true correct
original of Ordinance No. 1131 of the said City of E1 Segundo,
California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA,
ADDING SECTION 9.06.120 TO CHAPTER 9.06, TITLE 9 OF THE
SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE,RELATING TO THE USE OF MULTIPLE
POLICE RESPONSES TO LARGE GATHERINGS.
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council,
approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by
the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said
Council held on the 3RD day of JANUARY 1989 and the same was so
passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmembers: Dannen,
West, Clutter, Anderson and Mayor Jacobson
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions
of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of
California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1131 was duly and
regularly published according to law and the order of the City
Council of said City of E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, printed, published and circulated within
said City and that the same was so published therein on the
following date, to w' .
City Clerk of the
(SEAL) City of E1 Segundo, California