La Habra Municipal Code Ch. 9.62 Community Service Program

In lieu of, or as part of, requesting prosecution of a petition to declare a minor to be a ward of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 602 (including but not limited to, offenses which, in the opinion of the police chief, constitute a violation of the city code), or in lieu of prosecuting a violation of this chapter as a crime against an adult, the police chief with the approval of (or according to rules and procedures approved by) the city manager, shall be authorized to offer the minor or adult an option to perform such community service as the police chief deems appropriate, but which community service shall, if offered at all, contain the following minimum elements:

A. The minor shall perform at least one hundred hours of community service.

B. At least one of the custodial parents, or if none, guardians, shall be in attendance at least twenty-five percent of the period of assigned community service.

C. The entire period of community service shall be performed under the supervision of a community service provider approved by the chief of police.

D. Reasonable effort shall be made to assign the subject minor or adult to a type of community service that is reasonably expected to have the most rehabilitative effect on the minor or adult. To the extent that the offense giving rise to the offer of community service constitutes a violation of this chapter reasonable effort shall be made by the chief of police to assign the minor to community service which constitutes in significant part, the removal of graffiti.

(Ord. 1451 § 1, 1993)

Any minor determined to be a ward of the court under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 602 as a result of committing an offense in the city shall be required, at the city's option, to perform community service, including graffiti removal service of not less than one hundred hours nor more than three hundred hours.

(Ord. 1451 § 2, 1993)

Any and all violations of this chapter shall be punishable either as an infraction or a misdemeanor, at the discretion of the city attorney.

(Ord. 1451 § 3, 1993)