Cc: mike <*****************@yahoo.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2012 11:39 AM
Subject: Did you delegate your authority to make laws to Philip Bradstock???
This is a request for public records or public information per the Arizona Public Records law which is A.R.S 39 §121.
I always thought that the members of the Phoenix City Council, along with the Mayor of Phoenix were the only people that were allowed to pass new laws that the citizens of Phoenix are required to obey.
I also thought that the members of the Phoenix City Council, along with the Mayor of Phoenix were the only people that were allowed to modify and change existing laws which the citizens of Phoenix are required to obey.
Last I always assumed that the Phoenix City Manager was not allowed to create any new laws or modify any existing laws. And that the only thing that Phoenix City Manage was allowed to do was enforce the existing laws that the Phoenix City Council and the Phoenix Mayor passed.
Is that correct?
If that is true it seems like we have some out of control Phoenix city employees in the Film Department and the Parks and Recreation Department who are making up imaginary laws to raise revenue for their departments. I suspect this is a criminal activity and probably violates Arizona’s fraud or theft laws.
In October of 1974 the Phoenix City Council passed a law requiring people who shoot motion pictures and television shows in Phoenix Parks to get a permit that costs $100. That law is Phoenix City Code G-1403.
I have read through the law several times and the law ONLY applies to people that shoot motion pictures or television shows. That law does not say a word about shooting static still photos.
The law also has a number of exceptions for people that shoot non-commercial, non-profit, news and other types of videos for motion pictures or television shows.
We were shooting still, static photos in Papago Park and we were ordered by the Park Ranger to immediately stop shooting our photos until we purchased the $100 permit.
The park ranger didn’t ask us any questions, such as are you shooting commercial photos, commercial motion pictures or a commercial television show. He just ordered us to stop shooting our still photos until we got a permit.
After spending numerous hours navigating thru the city of Phoenix bureaucracy I ended up talking to Philip Bradstock who is the manager of the Phoenix Film Office.
Philip Bradstock told me that Phoenix City Code G-1403 was the law that requires us to get a permit to take static still photos in city Parks.
After I read thru Phoenix City Code G-1403 I gave Philip Bradstock a call and told him he must have given me the wrong law, because the law doesn’t say a word about requiring people who shoot static, still photos in city parks to get a permit.
Philip Bradstock told me that I was correct and that the law doesn’t say a word about requiring people who shoot static still photos in city parks to get a permit. Philip Bradstock also said that I was correct and that the law only mentions motion pictures and television productions.
Philip Bradstock then told me that Phoenix City Code G-1403 was the law that covered this issue. He said that the law allowed him to set the administrative details of how the law was implemented and that he decided to modify the law and make it apply not only to motion pictures and television productions, but to also require people who shoot static still photos in city parks to also get the permit which cost $100.
Personally I suspect that Philip Bradstock is not allowed to change any Phoenix laws and that only the Phoenix City Council along with the Mayor of Phoenix is allowed to modify that law and make it also apply to people that take static still photos in city parks.
Is that correct?
Or has the Mayor and Phoenix City Council members delegated your authority to make laws to Philip Bradstock who is the manager of the Phoenix Film office? And Philip Bradstock and unelected employee of the city of Phoenix now has the authority make laws that the citizens of Phoenix must obey?
I politely told Philip Bradstock that I though he was full of BS and asked him to find a law that was passed by the Phoenix Mayor and members of the Phoenix City Council delegating their authority to make laws to him.
While Philip Bradstock never did come up with any laws passed by the Phoenix City Council that delegated their authority to make laws to Philip Bradstock he did give me a mandate issued by the Phoenix City Manager that gave him the authority to make people who shoot static, still photos in city parks in city parks get the $100 permit, despite the fact that Phoenix City Code G-1403 doesn’t even mention static still photos.
Philip Bradstock gave me a PDF document called Administrative Regulation 5.42 which seems to be created by the Phoenix City Manager on October 1, 2008.
In Administrative Regulation 5.42 the Phoenix City Manager magically mandated that the words "motion pictures" and "television productions" no longer just mean "motion pictures" and "television productions" but also now mean "all film and digital media activities for commercial purposes, including features, television, industrial, educational, documentary, still photography, commercials and web casts".
So it seems like the Phoenix City Manager thru this proclamation just mandated a new law out of thin air which the citizens of Phoenix are now required to obey. I law that was not passed by the Phoenix City Council or even reviewed by the Phoenix City Council.
Did the Phoenix Mayor and Phoenix City Council members delegate their authority to make new laws like this to the Phoenix City Manager?
Is this new law which was made by the unelected Phoenix City Manager now a law that the citizens of Phoenix are required to obey?
As part of this request for public records I would also like for you to tell me the name of the Phoenix City Manager who issued this mandate in October of 2008. Can you also send me his name as part of this request for public records?
Last I suspect that when people like Philip Bradstock or the Phoenix City Manager make up imaginary laws that require people to pay money for things which they are allowed to do for free, such as shoot static still photos in city parks that some they have committed some type of crime like fraud or theft.
Can the Mayor and City Council members do something to order Philip Bradstock, the Phoenix City Manager and the Park Rangers in the Phoenix Parks from enforcing these imaginary non-existent laws?
And if so can you tell me what you are going to do to stop what seems like fraud or theft by Philip Bradstock?
Thanks