§ 15.65.020. Large gatherings requiring a second police response.  


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  • When a large party or gathering ("the event") 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 the guardians of the 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 within twelve hours of 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 damages to city property, injuries to city personnel, police services at contract rates, county booking fees and a fifteen percent administrative overhead charge.

(Ord. 655 § 1 (part), 1991)