Los Angeles Municipal Code Art. 19 Receipt of Analysis Fees and Establishment of the Narcotics Analysis

LABORATORY TRUST FUND OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT

Section

(a) There is hereby created and established within the Treasury of the City of Los Angeles a special fund known as the “ Narcotics Analysis Laboratory Trust Fund of the Police Department”, hereinafter referred to as the “Fund.”

(b) All money received by the Police Department pursuant to Section 11372.5 of the Health and Safety Code shall be deposited in the Fund.

(c) The Treasurer shall deposit in the Fund any interest earned from the deposit or investment of all money received pursuant to Subsection (b) of this section.

(d) No appropriation or expenditure shall be made from the Fund except for the purposes approved by Section 11372.5 of the Health and Safety Code and any equipment acquired thereby or otherwise through said statutory provisions shall be accounted for as required by Section 7.84, 7.85 and 7.88 of this Code.

(e) Appropriations from the Fund shall be approved by a majority vote of the City Council, subject to the approval of the Mayor, or passage by the Council over the Mayor’s veto by a two-thirds vote.

The Fund shall be administered and expenditures therefrom authorized by the Chief of Police.

No expenditure shall be made from the Fund, nor shall the Chief of Police disburse, seek to disburse or permit any monies in said Fund to be

disbursed except for purposes that are consistent with Subsection (d) of this section and with a detailed plan for expenditures which has been approved upon a majority vote of the City Council, subject to the approval of the Mayor, or passage by the Council over the Mayor’s veto by a two-thirds vote. The expenditure plan and amendments thereto shall be approved by the Board of Police Commissioners and submitted concurrently to the Public Safety Committee, and to the Budget and Finance Committee of the City Council for their recommendations to the City Council.

The Chief of Police shall concurrently submit to the Board, to the City Controller and to the City Council quarterly, a detailed account showing amounts and general purposes for which Fund money has been disbursed.

(f) Whenever the City Controller or Chief of Police is mentioned herein, the powers and duties conferred may be exercised or performed by a designated subordinate.

SECTION HISTORY

Added by Ord. No. 163,242, Eff. 3-24-88. Amended by: Subsec. (e), Ord. No. 164,741, Eff. 5-27-89, Oper. 7-1-89.