12.90.090 Sanction and citizen empowerment.
So long as any work for nuclear weapons continues in Berkeley, the City shall, acting through agencies designated by the City Council:
A. Assess, each year, the report of each nuclear weapons agent called for in Section 19.90.080, and decide whether, according to the intentions of this act, continuation of that agent’s work for nuclear weapons should continue.
B. In each case where the decision reached in subsection A is negative, the City shall so notify the nuclear weapons agent, with a formal request to cease and desist from that activity.
C. Each nuclear weapon agent being so notified and requested to cease and desist may appeal this decision to the City Council, within thirty days of receipt of said notices.
D. Failure of any nuclear weapons agent to comply with a cease and desist notice within sixty days following its receipt or following an unsuccessful appeal shall be met with any or all of the following sanctions as the City Council may choose:
1. Cut-off of any or all services by the City to the party concerned;
2. Levying of fines as suits the circumstances;
3. Advising citizens to avoid cooperation with the work of the party concerned; and
4. Providing assistance and encouragement, as appropriate, to citizens who may volunteer to impede, passively or actively by nonviolent means, the work on nuclear weapons by the party concerned. (Ord. 5784-NS § 9, 1986)