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RESOLUTION NO. 1545
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY, APPOINTING
HARRY S. CHESTER AS CHIEF OF POLICE AND
DEFINING HIS EMPLOYMENT.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does
resolve as follows:
BE IT RESOLVED that HARRY S. CHESTER
shall be and the same is hereby designated and
appointed Chief of Police of the City of Azusa,
Los Angeles County, California, at a salary of
$175.00 per month, effective and commencing
this day, viz, November 23,1937.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the said
Harry S. Chester shall hold said office.of
Chief of Police at the pleasure of the Council
of the City of Azusa. Upon the termination of
any employment hereunder, whether by reason of
death, action of Council in declaring the
position vacant or declaring the termination
thereof, or by any reason wYa tsoever, said
Harry S. Chester shall be paid to the date of
such termination only and not for any un-
expired portion of the then calendar month,
such payment for that month to be in that
proportion d the employeets monthly compen-
sation as the number of days which the employee
has been employed in that month, bears to 30
days.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chief of
Police (in his absence, the Captain of Police)
shall be the chief executive officer of the
Police Department. Such chief executive officer shall
be vested with all powers and shall perform all the
duties of said station. And, without in any way
limiting the generality of the foregoing, said
chief executive officer shall perform such other
and further duties as are or may be required of
him by the rules of the police department of the
City of Azusa, or by resolution or ordinance of
the City Council of said City, or by other law.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the chief
executive shall direct, control and manage the
work of all police officers of the City of Azusa
and of all members and employees of the police
department whether police officers or not, and
shall detail them or any of them to such public
service as he may see fit.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the chief
executive officer shall have full and com-
plete poorer and authority to suspend, or to
remove from service, or to discharge from
service, with or without pay, for cause,
any police officer or other member or employee
of the police department.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council
shall have full power and authority to sustain,
suspend, stay, modify, or overrule any order or
other action of the Chief of Police, or to make
other order or to take other action in connection
therewith as may be determined by a majority vote
of the council. Pending contrary action by Council,
any lawful order or other lawful action of the
Chief of Police shall be and remain in full force
and effect.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that all rules,
regulations and provisions of ordinances or
resolutions passed or adopted at any time
by the City Council of the City of Azusa for
the government of or in connection with the
Police Department of said city shall be at
all times subject to the right of council to
amend, alter, suspend or repeal same, the
said City Council reserving to itself the power and
right to at any time amend, alter, suspend or re-
peal any or all of the same, or any part thereof.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Mayor shall
sign this resolution and the Clerk attest same
and certify to the passage and adoption thereof.
Approved and adopted
this 23rd day of
November,1937.
ATTEST:
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A. HYNKS, City Cler�—
of the City of Azusa.
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CHA _.ARR, ° ayor of the
City of Azusa.
I do hereby certify that the foregoing resolution
was regularly adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa
at a special meeting of said Council held in the regular Council
Chambers of said City Council in said city on November 23,1937,
and that the same was passed by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEN, o�vJrc2t r ✓ %1�=, �.
NOES: COUNCIIZEN,-
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ABSENT: COUNCILMEN, }ZVYu-
Mae A. Hyne , City Clerk of
the City of Azusa.