O-295-60 ORDINANCE NO. 295
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE
LICENSING OF PERSONS ENGAGED IN THE
BUSINESS OF OPERATING PRIVATE PATROL
SERVICES AND PROVIDING FOR THE REGU-
LATION THEREOF.
BE IT ORDAINED BY MIAMI SHORES VILLAGE:
Section 1. From and after the passage of this ordinance, it shall
be unlawful for any person to engage in the business of conducting a private
patrol service within the limits of the Village, as such service is herein
defined, without first having complied with all of the provisions of this ordin-
ance, and no operator as herein defined shall enter into a contract for the
rendition of the services hereinafter referred to, or perform any such services
without having first paid the fee and secured a permit from Miami Shores
Village, as hereinafter provided for.
Section 2. The term "private patrol service" as herein used,
means a service by which a person, firm or corporation renders services
as watchman for a resident of the Village under an agreement between them,
by which the person rendering the service shall undertake, for a consideration,
to maintain a watch and conduct regular inspection of the premises of the
persons so employing him. * The term "operator" or "licensee" as used
hereafter in this ordinance, shall refer to any person, firm or corporation
engaged in the rendition of such service.
Section 3. Before any permit shall be issued by Miami Shores
Village to a p�rson seeking to qualify under the terms of this ordinance, such.
person shall make application for a permit to the Village Manager, on a form
to be approved by such Manager, which shall require the applicant to furnish
certain information more particularly to be set forth therein, and to do the
other acts provided for by this ordinance. Among the requirements which
the Village Manager may impose upon such application may be the following:
(a) The application shall set forth the name of the
applicant. If the applicant be an individual, it shall give such
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reasonable history concerning his activities as may be required.
If it be a partnership, the application shall give the same inform-
atiou relative to all members of the partnership. If it be a
corporation, the application shall give the same information
w ith respect to all of the officers and directors of the corporation
and shall, in the discretion of the Village Manager, also name
the stockholders. The application shall likewise give the names
of all persons who are to perform services as watchmen under
said agreement.
(b) The application shall be accompanied by photographs
of all persons connected with the applicant who are to perform
any work in Miami Shorea Village.
Section 4. Before any such application shall be granted, all
persons connected with the applicant, efther as owner, owners, officers,
directors or employees performing services in Miami Shores Village shall
be fingerprinted by the Police Department of said Village. The records of
such fingerprints shall be submitted for examination to the Federal Bureau
of Investigation to ascertain whether or not such persons have been convicted
of any felony or misdemeanor, in which event the permit shall not include
the person having such record.
Section 5. No permit shall be granted to any person to perform
any services under such permit, who has been refused a permit by Dade
County to carry firearms and if such permit has been granted a copy of the
same shall be filed with the Police Department.
Section 6. From time to time, such operator shall file with the
Police Department a complete list containing the names and addresses of all
persons living in Miami Shores Village who have employed the services of
such operator and such list shall be kept current by the elimination of persons
who have terminated such services and by the addition of those who have
procured the same, such additions and deletions to the list to be filed with the
Police Department not later than the tenth day of each month following the
granting of the permit.
Section 7. The Village Manager shall have fun power and
authority, upon making of complaints concerning the performance of services
by such operator to inquire into the same, upon notice to the operator, and
if the operator be found guilty of any act done in violation of this ordinance,
the Village Manager shall forthwith revoke the permit so issued and there-
upon the right of the operator to render such services in Miami Shores Village
shall cease.
. Section 8. The applicant at the time of filing his application
with the Village Manager shall pay a. fee of $10. 00 to defray the reasonable
cost of making the investigation herein required, and at the time that the
application is granted, shall pay an additional fee of $37. 50 for an occupational
license for one patrolman or agent and $5. 00 for each additional patrolman
or agent for the privilege of doing business in said Village by said applicant.
Section 9. Violation of any provision of this ordinance shall
subject the person so convicted of the payment of a. fine of not more than
$500. 00, or imprisonment in the Village Jail of not more than sixty days,
or both in the discretion of the Court.
Section 10. This ordinance shall become effective immediately
upon its passage.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1,4--A day of September, 1959.
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Mayor
ATTEST:
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Village Clerk
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