The county of Los Angeles has come up with a set of new guideline regarding future hosting of electronic music festivals in an effort to make the raves safer, the county's Board of Supervisors announced on Tuesday.

The 10 guidelines were authored by a task force consisting of public health and safety officials in collaboration with police and event promotors.

The county requires participants at the raves must be at least 18 years of age, people must reach the legal age of 21 years of age before they are allowed to drink alcohol, all events must be closed by 2 a.m. and medical personnel must be on side in case of an emergency.

Fifteen-year-old Sasha Rodriguez overdosed on Ecstasy after attending the 14th annual Electric Daisy Carnival at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and died June 29. The event was held from June 25 and 26, drawing a huge crowd of 185,000 music fans. Police made more than 60 arrests at the scene. Drug overdoses and drunkenness were cited as a problem.

The owner of the Coliseum enacted an indefinite moratorium on the event, and agreed last week to abide by the latest recommendations. The moratorium was only lifted on Nov. 3.

The next rave at the Coliseum is slated to be held for New Year's Eve.

Last week, commission member and county Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky asked that raves be allowed to continue only if organizers' security and operational plans pass muster with the commission. That move requires that organizers submit detailed plans for approval at least two months before the event.

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