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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 3651 2 3 4 5 6 7 =] 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 ORDINANCE NO. 365 AId ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA ESTABLISHING AN AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE AND PROVIDING FOR ITS USE AND CONTROL. follows:The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as SECTION 1. An Auxiliary Police Force is hereby established, the same to be a volunteer organization separate and distinct from the Police Department of this City but headed by the Chief of Police. SECTION 2. The Chief of Police of this city shall have complete authority, control and command over the Auxiliary Police Force, subject to the provisions of this ordinance and to any other law- ful directions of the City Council or of the Azusa Defense Council or of the Co-ordinator. The Chief of Police may appoint such members of said Auyi- liary Police Force as he may deem to be qualified and may provide for their training. SECTION'3. No person shall be deemed a member of the Auxiliary Police Force until he has been registered as such in a roster to be kept by the Chief of Police, and until, he has taken his oath that he will observe and obey the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of this State, and the laws of this Nation, this State and this City, and that he will carry out the duties of a member of the Auxiliary Police Force of this City to the best of his ability. SECTION 4. The duties of the Auxiliary Police Force, subject at all times to the direction, supervision and control of the Chief Of police, shall be to assist the regular members of the Police Depart- ment of this City in the enforcement of law and the maintenance of peace and order during the emergency of war and great common peril. The Chief may by order establish rules and regulations to govern the Auxi- liary Police Force, to fix the specific duties of its members, and to provide fot the maintenance of discipline. He may change such orders from time to time, and he may command members of the auxiliary.•force to obey the instructions of regular police officers in carrying out their duties. The e than those mentioned herein to be performed by Auxiliary Police Force, not inconsistent with provisions hereof. Chief may prescribe oth r -1- duties the the 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION -5 An identification card and such other insignia or evidence of identity as the Chief may prescribe shall be issued to each member, who must carry the card and other identification at all times while on duty, and he must surrender them upon the termination of his membership. SECTION 6. The membership of any person may be terminated by the Chief of Police at any time, and any member may resign from the Auxiliary Police Force at any time, but it shall be his duty to notify the Chief of his resignation. SECTION 7. No member of the Auxiliary Police Force shall. while on duty carry or use any firearm except upon the express written order of the Chief of Police. SECTION 8. No member of the Auxiliary Police Force shall break into or otherwise forcibly enter upon any private property or enter the dwelling or habitation of another without the consent of the owner or occupant, except when immediately accom- panied by a regular member of the Police Department of this City who then and there requests his aid in the enforcement of the law. SECTIOid '9. A member of the Auxiliary Police Force shall have the following powers of arrest and none other: 1. He may arrest for a public offense committed in his presence; 2. He may arrest a person who has in fact committed a felony, although not in his presence; 3. When a felony has in fact been committed, he may make an arrest when he has reasonable cause for believing the person arrested to have com- mitted it. Provided, however, that the Chief of Police may make it the duty of any member of the Auxiliary Police Force to lend physic&& aid to any regular member of the Police Department in making 4n' lawful arrest. SECTION 10, The Chief of Police may by order diminish or expand the membership of the Auxiliary Police Force as exigency may require, within however any limits prescribed by the City Council of the City of Azusa. -2- 1 2 3 4 5 6 e 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 SECTION 11. In addition to the penalties provided by law, any violation of law under color Of the performance of his duties as a member of the Auxiliary Police Force, and any breach of the Rules and Regulations established by the Chief shall subject any member to summary expulsion and the fact thereof may be published at the order of the Chief. SECTION 12. It shall be a misdemeanor punish- able by a fine of not to exceed $300.00 or by Imprisonment in the City Jail or in the County Jail not exceeding three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, for any person to wear, carry or display an Auxiliary Police Force identification card or insignia or otherwise to W1:Vx represent himself to be a member of that force, unless he is at that time actually a member thereof. SECTION 13. This ordinance is declared, to be an emergency measure necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health and safety and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication as required by law. A declaration of and the facts consituting the urgency of this measure is that the United States is at war and this city is in great and continuing danger of attack by the enemy, that the exigencies of war and the imminence of great public peril have thrown unprecedented burdens upon the employees of this city and the danger to the city is such as to admit of no delay in providing the volunteer support and aid of the citizenry in the maintenance of public health and safety. SECTIO14 14 The Mayor shall sign this ordinance and the amity Clerk shall attest the same and certify to the passage, adoption and publication thereof and shall cause the same to be published once, within 15 days after its passage, in the Azusa Herald & Pomotropic a weekly newspaper of general circulation printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, 1411ch said newspaper is hereby debignated for that purpose and thenceforth and thereafter this ordinance shall be in ::full force and effect. Attest: . A. OWENS Mayor of the City of Azusa. 4. A. HY E City Clerk of the City o Azusa. Passed, approved and adopted this day of April, 1942. -3- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 STATE OF CALIFOR1vIA ) (SS. COU14TY OF LOS AMELES OR I, 11. A. HYNES, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, do hereby certify that the fore- going Ordinance was duly introduced,placed upon its first reading and fully read at a special meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa held on April 3, 1942, in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council in said City; that thereafter said ordinance was duly and regularly passed and adopted by said Council, signed and approved by the Tlayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City, at a regular adjourned meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers of said City Council on April 92 1942, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: Ayes: Councilmen: Jumper, Malone, Arnold, Owens Noes: None Absent: Councilman: Bradshaw I UO IMTHER CERTIFY that I caused said ordinance to be published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof in the Azusa Herald & Pomotropic on April 9, 1942, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, published and circulated in said City of Azusa, and that the same was published in accordance with law. -4- City Clerk of th City of Azusa.