Ordinance - 637ORDINANCE NO. 637
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA REQUIRING.PERSONS CONVICTED OF A FELONY
WHO SHALL COME INTO OR BE WITHIN THE CITY OF WEST
COVINA TO REGISTER.IN THE__OFFICE OF THE CHIEF OF
POLICE OF SAID CITY.
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. "Convicted or Committed Persons" Defined.
Exceptions. For the purpose of this ordinance, the term "convicted or
committed person" shall mean and include any of the following:
a. Any person who since January 1, 1949, has-been or is
hereafter convicted of, or committed to an institution or place of
confinement for, the commission of any offense punishable as a felony
by a Federal Court of the United States of America, or by the court of
any state, or any other government or country, except those offenses
for which registration is required by or pursuant to Section 290 of the
Penal Code of the State of California, or who has been convicted of the
violation of any national or state law relating to the possession, sale
or transportation of any narcotic, whether such person was released from
custody by discharge, parole, probation, suspension of sentence, payment
of fine, or in any other manner whatsoever.
b. Any person who, prior to January 1, 1949 was convicted
of, or committed for, the commission of any offense punishable as a
felony, by a Federal Court of the United States of America, or by the
court of any state, except those offenses for which registration is
required by or pursuant to Section 290 of the Penal Code of the State of
California, or who has been convicted of the violation of any national
or state law relating to the possession, sale or transportation of any
narcotic, whose term of imprisonment or commitment, period of punishment
or sentence, term of parole or probationary period, as the case may be,
did not, or will not expire until some date subsequent to January 1, 1949.
Any person who is now, or who has been, or who may here-
after be placed on probation for the commission of any offense punishable
as a felony, or whose conviction or commitment is or has been set aside
in the manner provided by law, shall not be deemed a convicted or com-
mitted person with respect to the offense as to which such conviction
or commitment was set aside, unless such person is again convicted of
such offense -or such probation is revoked..
Nothing in this ordinance shall be interpreted or construed
to apply to any person with respect to any crime as to which he had or
shall have received a full pardon.
SECTION 2. Registration Required. Every convicted or com-
mitted person who resides in the city for wenty-four hours after the
effective date of this ordinance and every convicted or committed person
who hereafter enters and remains in the City for twenty-four hours,
shall, within eight hours after the expiration of such twenty-four hour
period, furnish to the Chief of Police a written statement containing
all of the information required by the'following sections of this ordi-
nance, and shall in addition thereto state in writing the date that he
.entered the State of California, and each of his places of residence or
abode for the -three months' period next preceding the date of his arrival
in the City.
Every convicted or committed person who does not reside -in
the City, and who comes into or is within the City on five occasions or
more during any thirty -day period, shall be subject to the provisions of
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this ordinance and shall immediately, upon entering the City on any
such fifth occasion, register with the Chief of Police and furnish the
written statement required by the provisions of this ordinance.
SECTION 3. Written Statement. Contents. The written
statement required of any convicted or commies persons by this ordi-
nance shall be made on forms prescribed by the Chief of Police and shall
• contain all of the following data:
(a) His true name and each other name or alias which he
has used or under which he may have been or is known.
(b) A full and complete physical description of his person.
(c) The kind, character and nature of each offense punishable
as a felony of. -which he has been convicted or committed.
(d) The name of the place where such crime was or crimes
were committed and the name of the place of conviction of or commitment
for the same.
(e) The name under which he was convicted or committed in
each instance and.the date of the conviction thereof or commitment
therefor.
(f) The name, if any, and the location of each prison,
reformatory., -jail or other institution in which he was confined, or to
which he was sentenced or committed, and the identification number
assigned to him thereat.
(g) The location and address of his residence, stopping
place, living quarters or place of abode in the City; if he has more
than one residence, stopping place or place of abode, that fact must
be stated and the location and address of each given.
(h) A statement of whether the residence, stopping place
or place of abode in which he resides is a private residence, hotel,
apartment house, or other building or structure, and whether such abode
-is temporary or permanent.
(i) The length of time he has occupied each such place of
residence, stopping place, or place of abode, and the length of time he
expects or intends to reside within the territorial boundaries of the
City.
(j) Such other and further information as may be required
by the Chief.of Police for the purpose of aiding and assisting him in
carrying into effect the provisions and intent of this ordinance.
SECTION.4. .Photograph and Finger rants Required. Each
convicted or committed person shall, at the time oV registering and
furnishing the information required by this ordinance, be photographed
and fingerprinted by the Chief -of Police, who shall cause such photo-
graph and fingerprints to be made a part of the record required by this
ordinance.
SECTION 5. Files. Confidential:.. The statements, photo-
graphs and fingerprints eF reinbe ore pro_v e to be made and taken shall
be kept by the Chief of Police -in the permanent file maintained and
kept by the Police Department of the City and shall not be opened to
inspection by the public or by any person other than regular members of
the Police Department of the City; provided, however, that any such photo-
graph or duplicates thereof may be exhibited to persons other than police
officers of the City for the purpose of assisting in identifying perpe-
trators of any crime. Such exhibition shall be made only upon appli-
cation in writing for such privilege, stating in said application the name
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and official position of the applicant, and the purpose of such
inspection and shall be done under the direct supervision of the Chief
of Police or the designated head of the Record Bureau of the Police
Department; and provided further that copies of said statements, photo-
graphs and fingerprints may be transmitted to the Sheriff of any county,
to the head of any organized police department of any city in the
state, or to the head of any department of the state engaged in the
enforcement of any criminal law of the state, or to the head of any
Federal law enforcement agency or to any Sheriff or Chief of Police of
a municipality or to the head of any other law enforcement agency in
any state or territory outside of the State of California, when request
is made in writing by such Sheriff or other head of a law enforcing
agency asking for the record of a certain person named therein, or for
the record of a person whose photograph or fingerprints correspond with
photographs or fingerprints submitted with such request and stating that
such record is deemed necessary for the use of such law 'enforcement
officer or agency in or concerning the investigation of any crime, or
any person who is accused of committing a crime, or any crime which is
reported to have been committed and further stating that the record
will be used only for such purpose. Any person who discloses to any
person any information contained in any statement required to be filed
under the provisions of this ordinance other than in the regular course
of his or her duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; provided, how-
ever, that nothing contained in this ordinance shall prevent the Chief
of Police from furnishing to the Sheriff of any county, the Chief of
Police of any municipality, or the head of any other law enforcing
agency which maintains any system of registration of convicted or com-
mitted persons, copies of the statements required to be filed under the
provisions of this ordinance, together with photographs and fingerprints
of persons making such statements, when and if such Sheriff, Chief of
Police or other head of a law enforcing agency furnishes to the Chief of
Police copies of statements, photographs and fingerprints procured by
him, and it is hereby made the duty of such Chief of Police to arrange
for the exchange of such information at all reasonable times.
SECTION 6. Change of address. any convicted or committed
person, except a non-reslaent, who is required to register under the
provisions of this ordinance, who changes his place of residence,
stopping place or living quarters, shall, within forty-eight hours
after such change, and any non-resident convicted or committed person who
has registered and changes his place of residence, stopping place or
living quarters, shall, upon his next entry into the City after such
change, notify the Chief of Police of such fact and furnish to such
Chief of Police the address of his new residence, stopping place or
living quarters in the same manner and with the same detailed informa-
tion as is required in the filing of the original statement under the
provisions of this ordinance. -
SECTION 7. False Statements. Fictitious address. No
person required by any prov s on o s ordinance to furnis a state-
ment shall in such statement give any misleading, false or fictitious
address or any address other than a true address or intended address,
or furnish in the making of any such report any false, untrue or mis-
leading information or statement relating to any information required
by any of the provisions of this ordinance to be made or furnished.
SECTION 8. Compliance Required. No person required by any
provision of this ordinance to rurnish any report or information, shall
fail, neglect or refuse to make such report or to furnish such informa-
tion, or fail, neglect or refuse, to render the same within the time
hereinbefore prescribed, or fail, neglect or refuse to furnish to said
Chief of Police within such time any information, required to be fur-
nished by any provisions of this ordinance to be made or furnished.
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SECTION 9. Penalty. Any person violating any of the pro-
visions of this ordinancee snail be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punishable by a fine not exceeding
Five Hundred Dollars or by imprisonment in the City Jail of the City of
Jest Covina or by imprisonment in the County Jail of said County of Los
Angeles at the discretion of the committing magistrate, for a period
not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Each
separate day, or any portion thereof, during which any violation of
this ordinance occurs or continues, and each failure, neglect or
refusal to make any such report or to furnish any such information,
photograph or fingerprints during each or any'day or portion thereof,
from and after the expiration of the time specified in this ordinance
within which such report must be made, or such information, photograph
or fingerprints furnished, shall be deemed to constitute a separate
violation thereof and a separate offense thereunder, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punishable as herein provided.
SECTION 10. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and 'approved this 31st day of August , 1959.
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Mayo�• • Tem
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF 'WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the.above Ordinance No. 637 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 24th day of August , 1959 ad �dthere-
after, said ordinance wasduly adoptedan passed at.ax�'/�egular meeting
of the City Council on the 31st day of August—, 1959, by the following
vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Heath, Pittenger, Mottinger, Barnes
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Mayor Brown
City Clerk.
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