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4515FOLLOWS: ORDINANCE NO. 4515 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM REPEALING CHAPTER 1.13 OF TITLE 1 OF THE ANAHEIM MUNICIPAL CODE AND ENACTING A NEW CHAPTER 1.13 IN ITS PLACE PERTAINING TO POLICE RESERVE CORPS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM DOES ORDAIN AS SECTION 1. That Chapter 1.13 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SECTION 2. That Chapter 1.13 of Title 1 of the Anaheim Municipal Code be, and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: 1.13.010 POLICE RESERVE CORPS Police Reserve Corps is hereby created and established as an organization which shall be composed of volunteer workers only who shall have been appointed and sworn in as members thereof by the Chief of Police or by an authorized person designated by the Chief for such purpose. The number of members of the Corps shall not exceed one hundred at any time. All volunteers shall serve gratuitously except as noted in Section 1.13.040. 1.13.020 QUALIFICATIONS FOR MEMBERSHIP .010 The Chief of Police, with the assistance of the Human Resources Department, shall establish the requirements to be met by persons to qualify to become members of the Corps. Such requirements shall include but need not be limited to the minimum selection and training required set forth by the Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training and such training shall be for a minimum of 240 hours. It shall be the duty of the Chief to provide training for members of which he may deem to be necessary or desirable. .020 A Physician, as designated by the Risk Management Control Center, shall determine the Physical fitness of persons to become members. .030 Whenever all of the requirements to qualify to become a member shall have been met by any person, he may be appointed and sworn in as a member by the Chief or by any authorized person designated by the Chief for such purpose. .040 The Chief, with or without cause therefor, may terminate any member at any time and any member may resign as such at any time by written notification thereof to the Chief. Any member who shall cease to be such shall surrender, at the time he shall cease to be such, all property of the City which shall have been issued to him pursuant to the provisions of this chapter or otherwise. .050 The Chief may increase or decrease the number of members of the Corps. In addition, the Chief, by order, may designate the specific duties performed by members of the Corps in accordance with their individual level of training as set forth by the Commission on Peace Officers' Standards and Training and the California Penal Code. 1.13.030 CONTROL AND RULES AND REGULATIONS The Chief shall have complete authority and control over the Corps. The Chief may establish.by order, rules, and regulations governing the Corps and its members providing for the maintenance of descipline and assigning members to perform police duites. 1.13.040 MINIMUM ASSIGNMENTS PAY AND EXPENSES Each member of the Corps shall serve as such for a minimum number of 16 hours, plus 4 hours of meetings and up to 4 hours of training each calendar month. Members will not receive salary, wages or compensation for such volunteer services rendered; however, at the discretion of the Chief, members may receive appropriate compensation for court appearances, special assignments so designated by the Chief, and security work at the Anaheim Stadium and/or at the Anaheim Convention Center. Reimbursement can be made for expenses incurred in the line of duty at the discretion of the Chief. 1.13.050 STATUS AS PEACE OFFICER Each member, while serving as such, shall have status as a police officer or as a peace officer as provided by Section 830.6(a) of the California Penal Code and as such, shall have the same power and authority, except to the extent that the same may be restricted or limited by the Chief as does a regular police officer while he is serving as such. However, each member, at all times other than while serviing as such: .010 Shall not have status as a police officer or as a peace officer; .020 Shall not have any power, authority, or duties as a police officer or as a peace officer; and .030 Shall not represent, identify, or hold himself out to be a police officer or a peace officer. 1.13.060 EQUIPMENT .010 Each member of the Corps designated by the Chief to perform patrol or related duties shall be issued at City expense and at no expense to him, items as follows: A uniform which shall be identical to that issued to a regular police officer; .0101 Equipment which shall include but not be limited to a firearm, a regulation police baton, a regulation belt and holster, a helmet, all of which shall be identical to those issued to a regular police officer; and .0102 Each item which shall be issued to a member shall remain and be the property of the City. Each member, at all times other than while serving as such, shall not wear, display, or carry, as the case may be, any item which has been issued to him unless so authorized by the Chief; nor shall any member carry a concealed firearm, except as duly authorized in the performance of his duties, unless he shall have qualified for and received a concealed weapons permit signed by the Chief. .0103 An identification card which shall show him as being a member of the Police Reserve Corps, and a badge. 1.13.070 MISDEMEANOR TO IMPERSONATE CORPS MEMBERS -PENALTY -3- It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not to exceed six (6) months or by a fine not to exceed $500.00 or both, for any person not a member of the Corps: .010 To wear, display, or carry, as the case may be, any items which shall have been issued to any member of the Corps; or .020 To represent, identify or hold himself out, in any manner whatsoever to be a member of the Corps or to have any connection with the Corps. 1.13.080 COMPENSATION IN EVENT OF INJURY, DISABILITY OR DEATH OF MEMBERS OF CORPS .010 For the purposes of this section only, each member of the Corps shall be an employee of the City only while serving any assignment as a member or while receiving further training as such, and any person shall be an employee of the City only while receiving any required training to qualify to become a member of the Corps. .020 If any such member or any such person were to suffer or sustain any illness or injury proximately caused by, arising out of, and in the course of his service or training while an employee of the City, as hereinabove limited, he shall be entitled to all of those Workers' Compensation benefits, no more or less, to which he, pursuant to the provisions of Division IV of the Labor Code of the State of California but only upon the conditions therein provided therefor, would be entitled if he were a regular police officer receiving a monthly salary as such. .030 If any such member or any such person were to die as a result of any illness or injury proximately caused by, arising out of, and in the course of, his service or training while an employee of the City as hereinabove limited, those persons who, if the deceased had been a regular police officer receiving a monthly salary as such, would be entitled to any Workers' Compensation benefits, pursuant to the provisions of Division IV of the Labor Code of the State of California, shall be entitled, but only upon the conditions provided therefor in said Division IV, to the same such benefits, no more or no less." -4- SECTION 3. SEVERABILITY The City Council of the City of Anaheim hereby declares that should any section, paragraph, sentence or word of this chapter of the Code, hereby adopted, be declared for any reason to be invalid, it is the intent of the Council that it would have passed all other portions of this chapter independent of the elimination herefrom of any such portion as may be declared invalid. SECTION 4. SAVINGS CLAUSE Neither the adoption of this ordinance nor the repeal of any other ordinance of this City shall in any manner affect the prosecution for violations of ordinances, which violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof, nor be construed as a waiver of any license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to any violation thereof. The provisions of this ordinance, insofar as they are substantially the same as ordinance provisions previously adopted by the City relating to the same subject matter, shall be construed as restatements and continuations, and not as new enactments. SECTION 5. CERTIFICATION The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be printed once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in the Anaheim Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation, published and 'circulated in said City, and Thirty (30) days from and after its final passage, it shall take effect and be in full force. THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE is approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Anaheim this 3rd day of July, 1984. - eA MAYOR OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM ATTEST: V C Y CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM 0227V 060784 -5- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss. CITY OF ANAHEIM ) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 4515 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Anaheim, held on the 26th day of June, 1984, and that the same was duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 3rd day of July, 1984-, by the_ following.:vote of_ the members thereof: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Kaywood, Bay, Overholt, Pickler and Roth NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None AND I FURTHER CERTIFY that the Mayor of the City of Anaheim signed said Ordinance No. 4515 on the 3rd day of July, 1984. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of Anaheim this 3rd day of Ju ly, 1984. ITY CLERK OF THE CITY OF ANAHEIM (SEAL) I, LEONORA N. SOHL, City Clerk of the City of Anaheim, do hereby certify that the foregoing is the original Ordinance No. 4515 and was,published once in the Anaheim Bulletin on the 13th day of July, 1984. L �irfDPW