(a) Established.
The city hereby offers a standing reward in the amount of two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00) for the arrest and conviction of any person found guilty of the crime of arson within the corporate limits of the city, the same to be payable immediately after the final conviction of such person.
(b) How offered.
Whenever the mayor shall be informed that any fire occurring in the city was of an incendiary origin, he shall call for a report on the same by the city fire marshal, and if the marshal shall report that such fire was caused by the commission of the crime of arson, it shall become the duty of the mayor to offer the reward provided for in subsection
(a) of this section, which reward shall be in the form of a proclamation duly issued by the mayor under his official signature and attested by the seal of the city.
(c) Payment.
Upon information being given by any person causing the arrest and conviction of any person guilty of the specific crime of arson and upon the final conviction of such person, the person giving such information shall be entitled to receive the reward offered by this section from the city.
(1975 Code, secs. 14-1, 14-2, 14-4; 2004 Code, secs. 5.101–5.103)