The City Council may, after compliance with Article XIIID of the California Constitution and implementing legislation (collectively "Article XIIID") levy an annual assessment for fire prevention and preparedness services pursuant to this chapter. The assessment may be made for the purpose of providing inspection services to monitor and identify hazardous conditions; of providing mitigation services and programs to mitigate hazardous conditions; of providing fire suppression education services and programs to citizens; of providing planning, personnel and material assistance to the Citizen Emergency Response Training (CERT) Program and any access and evacuation programs; of providing signage, tow-away zones, and other services and facilities to reduce evacuation "bottlenecks," including neighborhood parking lots; of providing services to clear the rights-of-way of public paths (including stairs) and trails, improving and extending such paths in critical fire areas, and providing adequate signage; of obtaining furnishing, operating, and maintaining fire suppression equipment or apparatus or for the purpose of paying the salaries and benefits of firefighting or civilian personnel, or both, involved in providing these services, whether or not fire suppression or inspection services are actually used by or upon a parcel, improvement, or property. (Ord. 6442-NS § 1, 1998: Ord. 6129-NS § 2, 1992)