Pomona Municipal Code § 14-348 Final action on application

Every person conducting a patrol system shall first procure a special city license for such purpose in addition to any state license required and shall pay an application fee set by resolution of the city council.

(Code 1959, § 22-7; Ord. No. 1030, § 4; Ord. No. 2534, § 1)

Any person desiring a license to conduct a patrol system shall file a verified application with the chief of police accompanied by the required fee.

(Code 1959, § 22-8; Ord. No. 1030, § 5)

An application for a license to conduct a patrol system shall contain the following:

(1) The name and address of the applicant.

(2) If the applicant is a partnership, the names and addresses of all partners.

(3) If the applicant is a corporation, the names and addresses of the corporate officers and manager, and a certified copy of the resolution authorizing such application.

(4) The district or territory proposed to be served by the patrol system.

(5) A description of the methods of operation.

(6) The names and addresses of all patrol officers who are or will be owners, officers or employees of the applicant.

(7) A statement as to what offenses, if any, any person mentioned in subsection (1), (2) or (3) of this section has been convicted and the time, place and circumstances thereof.

(8) Such other information as either the city council or the chief of police may require.

(Code 1959, § 22-9; Ord. No. 1030, § 6)

Every application for a license to conduct a private patrol system shall include evidence on the part of the applicant that such applicant has complied with the requirements of Business and Professions Code div. 11, ch. 11.5, art. 3 (Business and Professions Code § 7582 et seq.).

(Code 1959, § 22-10; Ord. No. 1030, § 7; Ord. No. 1483, § 1)

Upon receipt of an application for a license to conduct a patrol system, the chief of police shall investigate the character, fitness and qualifications of every person whose name appears on the application. He shall transmit the application to the city council, together with his recommendation that the license be granted or denied, together with his reasons therefor. He shall also inform the city council as to what persons, in his opinion, would be permitted to act as patrol officers and in what territory the applicant shall be allowed to operate, together with his reasons therefor.

(Code 1959, § 22-11; Ord. No. 1030, § 8)

Upon receipt of an application for a license to conduct a patrol system, the city council shall either grant it to the full extent requested, or it shall notify the applicant that it intends to deny the application or to grant the application, but permit operations in only a portion of the territory or by only a part of the patrol officers or both applied for. Within five days of such notification, the applicant may demand a public hearing. If he does not do so, he shall be deemed to have consented to such denial or granting of the license.

(Code 1959, § 22-12; Ord. No. 1030, § 9)

Within 20 days after an applicant for a license to conduct a patrol system files with the city council a demand for a public hearing, as provided in section 14-346, the city council shall hold a public hearing either before itself or a referee and shall serve notice of the time and place of such hearing upon the chief of police, upon the applicant and upon every person named as a patrol officer in the application whom the city council intends not to allow to act as such.

(Code 1959, § 22-13; Ord. No. 1030, § 10)

The city council shall inform the chief of police and city clerk of its final action on each application for a license to conduct a patrol system.

(Code 1959, § 22-14; Ord. No. 1030, § 11)

The licensee of a patrol system shall inform the business license division within five days after any patrol officer no longer is an owner, member or employee of such licensee and shall return the license and badge of such patrol officer, and the patrol officer's name shall be removed from the license of the patrol system.

(Code 1959, § 22-16; Ord. No. 1030, § 13)

The licensee of a patrol system at any time may file an application with the chief of police either to change or increase his territory of operation or to add patrol officers or both.

(Code 1959, § 22-17; Ord. No. 1030, § 14)

The city council shall grant or deny applications to modify existing patrol system licenses in the same manner as for original applications.

(Code 1959, § 22-18; Ord. No. 1030, § 15)

The holder of a patrol system license shall not sell or offer to sell any transfer or relinquishment of the privilege to operate a patrol system in territory assigned to him or for any consideration whatever agree to advocate or not to oppose the granting of any other patrol system license.

(Code 1959, § 22-22; Ord. No. 1030, § 20)