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ORDINANCE NO.
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ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO ADDING CHAPTER 12.64
2 TO THE SAN BERNARDINO MUNICIPAL CODE TO PROVIDE FOR MOTION
PICTURE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION PERMITS.
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THE MAYOR AND COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
4 DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
5 SECTION 1. Chapter 12.64 of the San Bernardino Municipal
6 Code is hereby added to read as follows:
7 "Chapter 12.64
8 MOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION PRODUCTION PERMITS
9 12.64.010 Purpose.
10 It is the policy of the City of San Bernardino to permit a
11 motion picture and television production industry to utilize the
12 variety of backdrops afforded within the City of San Bernardino
13 as locations for filming of or video taping for motion picture
14 production so long as the use of locations within the City does
15 not unreasonably interfere with the public health and safety or
16 unreasonably endanger any property. It is the purpose of this
17 chapter to provide for rules and regulations governing the issues
18 of permits for filming or video taping on location within the
19 City in order to ensure that motion picture and television
20 production companies wishing to use locations within the City
21 will not be unduly restricted so long as their activities in this
22 regard are not inconsistent with considerations of the public
23 health and safety and the protection of property.
24 12.64.020 Permit required.
25 Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, it shall be
26 unlawful for any person to engage in the business or activity of
27 filming, video taping or producing motion pictures on motion
28 picture film or electronic video tape for public exhibition as
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motion pictures or for television, at any place within the City,
other than at or in an established motion picture or television
studio, without a permit from the City Administrator. Any person
violating any provision of this chapter is guilty of an
infraction, which upon conviction thereof, is punishable in
accordance with the provisions of Section 1.12.010, Subsection B
of this Code.
12.64.030 Exemptions.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:
A. The filming or video taping of motion pictures solely
for private or family use;
B. The filming or taping of motion pictures for use in a
criminal investigation or civil judicial or administrative
proceedings;
C. The filming, video taping or production of motion
pictures for news purposes. "News purposes" under this section
shall mean the filming or video taping for television news
broadcasting by reporters, photographers or cameramen in the
employ of a newspaper, news service, television broadcasting
station, or similar entity, of news events concerning those
persons, scenes or occurrences which are in the news and of
general public interest.
12.64.040 Application form.
The City Administrator shall furnish an application for such
permit. Such application shall request the following
information:
A. Full name of applicant;
B. Business name of applicant (if different);
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C. Business address of applicant7
D. Business telephone of applicant7
E. Location(s) of proposed filming or taping7
F. Date(s) and time(s) of proposed filming or taping7
G. Lists which include the make, type and license number of
all motor vehicles that applicant, its agents or employees will
park on City streets or parking lots during filming7
H. Services of City employees desired or required on
location during filming7
I. Description of scene(s) to be filmed or taped7
J. Name of person in charge on 10cation7
K. Such other information as the City Administrator may
deem necessary or desirable.
12.64.050 Time for filing application.
Application shall be presented to the City Administrator at
least two (2) days in advance of the time that the proposed
filming, taping or production is to commence.
12.64.060 Granting - Denial.
The City Administrator shall approve the application and
issue a permit for such activity unless he or she determines that
the proposed use will unreasonably interfere with the use and
enjoyment of the property by the public, result in damage or
injury to the property, or will unreasonably affect or interfere
with the use of neighboring property by the owners or occupants
thereof. If the application is approved, the City Administrator
shall attach such conditions to the permit as he or she finds are
necessary to assure that the activity will not unreasonably
interfere with the use and enjoyment of neighboring public and
private property.
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12.64.070 Fee.
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assistance in the filming as is reasonable under the
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circumstances. To effectuate the purposes of this chapter, the
City Administrator shall have authority to waive any time limits
otherwise applicable under the San Bernardino Municipal Code, to
approve temporary street closings, and to issue such other
temporary permits as the Mayor and Common Council could do if
time were available for submission of such matters to the Mayor
and Common Council. n
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was duly
adopted by the Mayor and Common Council of the City of San
Bernardino at a reqular
meeting thereof, held on the
, 1985, by the following vote, to
15th
day of
Julv
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AYES:
Council Members Estrada. Reillv. Hernandez
Marks. ouiel. strickler
NAYS:
None
ABSENT:
Council ~lember Frazier
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The foregoing ordinance is hereby approved this
16th day
July
, 1985.
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Approved as to form:
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City Attorney
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