This chapter shall be referred to as the "Major Retail Center
Security Ordinance."
(Ord. 1085 § 2, 2014)
The purpose of this chapter is to establish minimum security
standards for major retail centers that will deter crime, aid in arrests
and support law enforcement investigations and prosecutions, and ensure
the health, safety, and well-being of the city's residents and visitors.
(Ord. 1085 § 2, 2014)
For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the meaning respectively ascribed to them by this section:
"Enterprise"
means any kind of business operation whereby goods, services
or any entertainment of any kind or type are offered to the general
public, and includes retail, eating and drinking establishments, personal
services (e.g., hair and nail salons), banks and movie theaters.
"Major retail center" or "center"
means a destination center consisting of a clustering or
grouping of twenty or more enterprises having any or all of the following
characteristics:
A.
Enterprises are connected by party walls, partitions, canopies
or similar features;
B.
Some or all of the enterprises are located in separate buildings
that are designed as a single commercial group sharing common parking
areas and vehicular ways that are connected by walkways or other access
ways;
C.
Enterprises are under the same management or association for
the purpose of enforcing reciprocal agreements controlling management
or parking; and/or
D.
Enterprises are structurally designed in an integrated fashion
around or along the sides of a promenade, walkway, concourse or courtyard.
"Operator"
means the owner of the major retail center and the individual,
firm, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or legal
entity legally authorized by the operator under a management agreement
to lease commercial space or manage the operation of the major retail
center.
"Parking area"
means all that area associated with a major retail center,
whether unenclosed or enclosed on one or more levels, which is used
for or intended for the off-street parking of motor vehicles, and
including parking stalls, spaces between stalls, access aisles, fire
lanes, driveways and roadways leading to and from the parking stalls,
walkways between or adjacent to parking stalls and loading zones adjacent
to parking stalls or otherwise accessible to the public.
"Security guard"
means a person who possesses valid credentials evidencing
security guard registration with the Bureau of Security and Investigative
Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs.
(Ord. 1085 § 2, 2014)
Any major retail center with a gross leasable area in excess
of two hundred thousand square feet shall be subject to the provisions
of this chapter.
(Ord. 1085 § 2, 2014)
The following minimum security requirements shall apply to all
centers to which this chapter applies:
A. A minimum of two security officers shall be on duty during the hours of operation described in subsection
B. The minimum number of security officers may be reduced to one officer when the percentage of enterprises open for business is fifteen percent or less of the total leased space in the center.
B. Patrols
shall commence no later than one-half hour before the first enterprise
opens for business and shall terminate no sooner than one hour after
the last enterprise closes. Patrols shall be scheduled as frequently
as necessary to effectuate the purpose of this chapter and may be
accomplished on-foot or in marked vehicles.
C. In the
event a center contains an enterprise that is open for twenty-four
hours a day, at least one security officer shall patrol during the
overnight hours commencing one hour after the last enterprise closes
for business and one-half hour before the first enterprise opens for
business.
D. Security
officers shall be in uniform while on duty and shall be equipped with
a radio communication device connected to a base of operation and
capable of making 9-1-1 emergency phone calls.
E. All
vehicles used for patrol service shall be duly marked and identified
on their doors as security vehicles with flashing-amber-rotating lights
clearly visible to the general public.
(Ord. 1085 § 2, 2014)