§ 14-85. Cost recovery for excessive use of police resources for nuisance activities

(a) When the chief of police determines that for any invoice period within which law enforcement has been dispatched to the same lodging establishment in response to a threshold amount of nuisance activity at or in that establishment, the chief of police shall review the incident reports for that establishment and shall impose a cost recovery fee for all nuisance activity calls for service above the threshold amount of nuisance activity for that invoice period.

(b) Prior to the issuance of the cost recovery fee invoice, the chief of police shall provide the lodging establishment owner with notice that the establishment is approaching its nuisance activity threshold.

(c) The invoice for the cost recovery fee invoice shall:

(1) Identify the lodging establishment and the threshold amount of nuisance activity for that establishment;

(2) Summarize the evidence of the nuisance activity occurring at or in the lodging establishment (including the documented observations of the peace officer or a witness willing to testify) for which the responsible person is being imposed a fee;

(3) Provide the dates on which the nuisance activity was reported to the police department and the dates of any prior responses by the police department to nuisance activity at or in the lodging establishment for the invoice period at issue; and

(4) Notify the property owner and the lodging establishment owner of the required corrective actions, including but not limited to conditions of operation, if any, and the date by which such corrective actions must be completed.

(d) A subsequent and separate invoice for cost recovery fee shall be issued pursuant to this chapter each invoice period that the threshold amount of nuisance activity occurs at or in a lodging establishment.

(Ord. No. 14-01, § 1, 1-7-14 )