California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 742.14

WIC § 742.14 Effective Jan 1, 1995Div. 2 · Part 1 · Ch. 2 · Art. 18.5

Statute text

(a)A city, county, or city and county may elect, by ordinance, to have the probation officer of the county recoup for it, through juvenile court proceedings in accordance with Section 742.16, its costs associated with defacement by minors of its property and the property of others by graffiti or other inscribed material. That ordinance shall include the cost finding or findings specified in subdivision (b), and if the city, county, or city and county enacts an ordinance pursuant to Section 53069.3 of the Government Code, the cost findings specified in subdivision (c). These cost findings shall be reviewed at least once every three years, at which time the city, county, or city and county, by resolution, shall adopt updated cost findings in accordance with subdivisions (b) and (c). A city, county, or city and county may rescind, by ordinance, its election to have the probation officer recoup its costs pursuant to this section. Immediately after adoption, the city or county shall cause a certified copy of an ordinance adopted pursuant to this subdivision and any resolution containing updated cost findings to be forwarded to the clerk of the juvenile court in the county and to the probation officer of the county.

(b)A city, county, or city and county that adopts an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include therein a finding or findings, to be reviewed at least once every three years, of the average costs per unit of measure incurred by the law enforcement agency with primary jurisdiction in the city, county, or city and county in identifying and apprehending a person subsequently convicted of violation of Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code or a minor subsequently found to be a person described in Section 602 by reason of the commission of an act prohibited by Section 594, 594.3, 594.4, 640.5, 640.6, or 640.7 of the Penal Code. A city, county, or city and county that does not adopt an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a) may adopt an ordinance containing the cost finding or findings described in this subdivision. Findings of costs per unit of measure may include, but are not limited to, findings of the hourly costs of employee time and of the costs per mile of operating patrol vehicles.

(c)If a city, county, or city and county enacts an ordinance pursuant to Section 53069.3 of the Government Code and enacts an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a), the ordinance enacted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall contain findings, to be reviewed at least once every three years, of the average cost to the city, county, or city and county per unit of measure of removing graffiti and other inscribed material, and of repairing and replacing property of the types frequently defaced with graffiti or other inscribed material that cannot be removed cost effectively. A city, county, or city and county that does not adopt an ordinance pursuant to subdivision (a) may adopt an ordinance containing the cost findings described in this subdivision. Findings of costs per unit of measure may include, but are not limited to, findings of the costs per square inch of removing painted graffiti or of the costs per item of replacing items that have been etched.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 909, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1995.