(a) Authorized.
(1) The city is hereby authorized to offer a standing reward of two hundred
fifty dollars ($250.00), payable to the person or persons who shall
be responsible for the arrest and conviction of any person committing
in the city the crime of arson as the same is now defined by the Penal
Code of the state.
(2) Whenever the mayor or his or her designee shall be informed that
any fire occurring in the city was of an incendiary origin, he or
she shall call for a report on the same by the city fire marshal,
and, if said marshal shall report that such fire was caused by the
commission of said crime of arson, the council, at their discretion,
may offer the reward above prescribed.
(b) Payment.
Upon information being given by any person
or persons who shall cause the arrest and conviction of such persons
so guilty of a specific crime of arson for which said reward shall
be offered, and after the final conviction of such person or persons,
the person or persons so giving such information may be entitled to
receive from the city the reward offered. The city council shall be
the sole and exclusive judge in awarding the reward.
(Ordinance adopting 1993 Code; 1993
Code, secs. 5.501–5.503; Ordinance adopting
2017 Code)
(a) The
Willow Park Fire Rescue shall initiate mitigation rates for the delivery
of emergency and nonemergency services by the fire department for
personnel, supplies and equipment to the scene of emergency and nonemergency
incidents as listed in exhibit A to Ordinance 752-17. The mitigation
rates shall be based on actual costs of the services and that which
is usual, customary and reasonable (UCR) as shown in exhibit A to
Ordinance 752-17, which may include any services, personnel, supplies,
and equipment and with baselines established by addendum to Ordinance
752-17.
(b) A
claim shall be filed to the responsible party(s) through their insurance
carrier. In some circumstances, the responsible party(s) will be billed
directly.
(c) The
fire department’s city council may make rules or regulations
and from time-to-time may amend, revoke, or add rules and regulations,
not consistent with this section, as they may deem necessary or expedient
in respect to billing for these mitigation rates or the collection
thereof.
(Ordinance 752-17 adopted 5/9/17)