HomeMy WebLinkAbout80-25 Pertaining to Reserve Officers, Declaring said Ordinance to be an Urgency OrdinanceORDINANCE NO. 80-25
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA, PERTAIN-
ING TO RESERVE OFFICERS, DECLARING SAID
ORDINANCE TO BE AN URGENCY ORDINANCE AND
SETTING FORTH THE REASONS THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa
finds and declares the Reserves of the Costa Mesa Police Depart-
ment comprise a skilled, experienced, well-trained group.
The City Council further finds and declares that Section
832.6(b) of the California Penal Code provides for a procedure
whereby a City Council may, prior to January 1, 1981, designate
reserves as level I reserve officers, and that the Chief of
Police may investigate the qualifications of candidates and the
City Manager may determine that particular individuals are quali-
fied to be level I reserve officers and perform general law
enforcement duties by reason of training and experience.
The City Council further finds and declares that the
health, safety and general welfare of the community require such
designation of level I reserve officers as described herein.
The City Council finds and declares that the protection of
the health, safety and general welfare of the community requires
that this Ordinance be adopted as an urgency measure, pursuant
to Section 36937(b) of the California Government Code. The
reasons in support of the necessity of an urgency measure are as
follows:
The designation of such reserve officers as level I
reserve officers is necessary to assure for the City the con-
tinued availability of a reliable source of manpower for normal
or emergency situations and designation is thus necessary for
the immediate preservation of public peace, health or safety.
SECTION 2. An urgency measure is adopted as hereinafter
set forth, to be designated as Title 14, Chapter 3, Section
14-50.1; the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa does ordain
as follows:
Section 14-50.1
(a) All reserve police officers who are
issued a Peace Officers Standards and TrainingLevel I Reserve
Officer Certificate before January 1, 1981, shall have the full
powers of a peace officer, where the City Manager, on the recom-
mendation of the Chief of Police, has determined such reserve
officer qualified to perform general law enforcement duties by
reason of the reserve officer's training and experience.
(b) This Ordinance retains in the Chief
of Police the authority, control and command over the reserve
police force and permits the adoption of rules and regulations
limiting or designating the extent of authority of the various
activities of the reserve officers.
SECTION I. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in
full force immediately after its passage, and before the ex-
piration of fifteen (15) days after its passage, shall be
published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a newspaper
of general circulation printed and published in the City of
Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City
Council voting for and against the same.
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PASSED AND ADOPTED this 15th day of December, 1980.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that
the above and foregoing Ordinance No. 80-25 was introduced and
considered section by section at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 15th day of December, 1980, and thereafter
passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City
Council held on the 15th day of December, 1980, by the follow-
ing roll call vote:
AYES: Council Members: Schafer, Hall, Hertzog,
McFarland, Johnson
NOES: Council Members: None
ABSENT: Council Members: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and
affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this 16th day of
December, 1980.
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