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Home My WebLink About03678 ORD - 03/03/1954AN ORDiidWE ESTABLISHING A POLICE RESERVE FORCE; PRESCRIBING THE NUMBER AND QUALIFICATIONS OF THE MEMBERS THEREOF; ORDER OF COMMAND; RULES GOVERNING THE OPERATION THEREOF; FORBIDDING IMPERSONATION OF MEMBERSHIP THEREOF; AND PRESCRIBING A FINE FOR VIOLATION OF SUCH PROVISION; CONTAINING A SAVING CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING FOR PUBLICATION. WHEREAS, THE RAPID GROWTH OF THE CITY, DANGERS FROM STORMS, AND OTHER DISASTERS HAVE THROWN UNPRECEDENTED BURDENS UPON THE REGULAR MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY; AND WHEREAS, THE DANGER IS SUCH AS TO ADMIT OF NO DELAY IN PROVIDING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AND AID, VOLUNTARILY OFFERED BY THOUSANDS OF CITIZENS, IN THE MAINTENANCE OF PUBLIC PEACE AND SAFETY; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS: SECTION I, AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE ESTABLISHED TO BE KNOWN AS POLICE RESERVE. AN AUXILIARY POLICE FORCE TO BE KNOWN AS POLICE RESERVE 15 HEREBY ESTABLISHED. IT SHALL BE COMPOSED OF PERSONNEL WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED TO JOIN THE ORGANIZATION AND WHOSE APPLICATION FOR MEMBERSHIP HAS BEEN ACCEPTED AND WHO HAVE COMPLIED WITH ALL THE RULES, REGULATIONS AND ORDERS PROVIDED FOR THE CONDUCT AND CONTROL OF THE MEMBERS THEREOF. IT SHALL BE COMPOSED OF NOT TO EXCEED ONE HUNDRED (IOO) MEMBERS. THE POLICE RESERVE SHALL BE SEPARATE AND EWTINCT FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY BUT SHALL BE HEADED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE. SECTION 2. CHIEF OF POLICE TO HAVE CONTROL. THE MEMBERS OF THE POLICE RESERVE SHALL BE UNDER THE AUTHORITY, CONTROL, AND COMMAND OF THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI SUBJECT TO ALL OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE CITY CHARTER, ORDINANCES OF THE CITY AND OF THIS ORDINANCE. MEMBERS SHALL BE APPOINTED FROM A LdST OF ELIGIBLES COMPILED AS HEREINAFTER P"RO"VIDED. SECTION 3. LIST OF ELIGIBLES. A LIST OF ELIGIBLES ACCOMPANIED BY A COMPLETE SET OF FINGER- PRINTS OR SUPPLEMENTED IMMEDIATELY BY FINGERPRINTING BY THE POLICE DIVISIONS WHICH FINGEfj*#MTS SHALL BE CHECKED BY THE IDENTIFICATION BUREAU TO ASCERTAIN ANY CRIMINAL RECORD OF SUCH PERSON. THE APPLICATIONS SHALL STATE THE RESIDENCE "Ytl OF THE APPLICANT. EACH APPLICANT SHALL BE AN ACTUAL RESIDENT OF NUECES COUNTY, TEXAS, AND SHALL FURNISH SATISFACTORY PROOF OF GOOD CHARACTER, TEMPERATE HABITS, FREEDOM FROM COMMUNICABLE DISEASES AND PHYSICAL ABILITY TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE FOSITIO0 FC�P WHICH HE SEEKS APPOINTMENT, HE SHALL FURNISH THRE: (-) REFEREE +CES AND ATTACH LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION FROM SAID REFERENCES, TO THE APPLICATI*�N. THE APPLICATIOM SHALL 9E ON THE FORM PRESCRIBED BY THE CHIEF OF POLtlCE AND APPROVED BY THE CITY MANAGER, ALL NAMES UPON A LAST OF ELIGIBLES "HALL SUBSCRIBE TO AN OATH THAT HE WILL OBSERVE AND O2EY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED 5TAYES, THE CONSTITUTION OF THIS STATE, AMC, THE +tLWS OF THIS NAT -ION, THIS STATE AND THIS CITY AND THA" HE WILL CARRY OUT TIS Dol!E': OF A MEMBER 07 THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE OF THIS CITY TO THE HEST OF HIS ABILITY. SECTION $., DUTIES, THE DUTIES OF THE PCLiCE RLSERIE FORCE, SUBJECT Al ALL TIMES YO THE DIRECTION, SUPERVISION AND CONTR_L DF T'r!£ CHIEF OF POLICE.. SHALL BE TO ASSIST THE REGULAR MEMBERS OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF LAW AND THE MAINTENANCE OF PEACE AND ORDER DURING , PERIODS OF EMERGENCY QCSi GNATED BY ISE CHIEF OF POLICE, THE CHIEF MAY BY ORDER ESTABLISH RULES AND RFGULATIC43 TO GOVERN THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE, TO FIX THE SPECIFIC DI.T!£S OF dT'S AND TO PROVIDE FOR THE MA9N° TENANCE OF DISCIPLINE. HE MAY CHANGE SUCH ORDERS FROM TIME To TIDAL, AND HE MAY COMMAND MEMBERS OF THE POLICE RE:SERVf FORC_ TO I'SEY THE- ssNSTRUCTIONS OF REGULAR POLICE OFFVCERS IN C>RPY!fvG OVT TwTIR DUTIES. THE CHIEF MAY PRESCRIBE UTHER D?-TIES THAN T!-!',SE MENTIONe.D HEREIN TO BE PERFORMED BY THE POLICE RESERVE VCRCE:, NOT INCONSISTENT M'IT;1 THE PROVISIONS HEREOF., SECTION 5. IDENTIFICATION AN IDENTIFICATION CARD AMD SUCH OTHER INSIGNIA OR EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY AS THE CHIEF MAY PRESCRIBE SHALL BE ISSUED TO EACH +^EMBER, WHO MUST CARRY THE CARD AND OTHER IDENTIFICATION AT ALL TIMES WHILE ON DUTY, AND HE MUST SURRENDEF THEM UPON THE TERMINATION OF H15 MEMBERSHIP. ALL —Zr COMMISSIONS SHALL EXPIRE AUTOMATICALLY AT MIDNIGHT ON THE 3IST DAY OF DECEMBER IN ANY YEAR. A RENEWAL OF SHOD COMMISSION FOR ANY NEXT INSUONG YEAR MAY BE HAD BY THE FILLING OF AN APPLICATION BY ANY HOLDER OF ANY COMMISSION. SAID APPLICATIONS SHALL CONSIST OF A POST CARD PROPERLY FILLED OUT BY THE APPLICANT GIVING HIS FULL NAME AND ADDRESS AND GIVING A NUMBER OF HIS EXISTING COMMISSION. THIS APPLICAT60H SHALL BE FOLED WITH THE CHIEF OF POLICE. IF APPLICATION FOR RENEWAL IS NOT PRESENTED ON OR BEFORE JANUARY gl OF THE YEAR FOR WHICH RENEWAL IS SOUGHT, THEN ANYONE DESIRING THE COMMISSION AS A MEMBER OF THE POLICE RESERVE SHALL MAKE APPLICATION AS ON THE FIRST INSTANCE WHERE AN APPLICANT DOD NOT HOLD A COMMISSION. SECTION 6. REMOVAL FROM MEMBERSHIP- -- RESIGNATION. MEMBERSHIP OF ANY PERSON MAY BE TERMINATED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE AT ANY TIME FOR ANY CAUSE DEEMED SUFFICIENT BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE. ANY MEMBER MAY RESIGN FROM THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE AT ANY TIME, BUT 9T SHALL BE THE DUTY TO NOTIFY THE CHIEF OF HIS RESIGNATION. SECTION 7. DIMINISHING THE FORCE., THE CHIEF OF POLICE MAY BY ORDER D'OMONOSH OR EXPAND THE MEMBER- SHIP OF THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE AS EXIGENCY MAY REQUIRE; WITHIN THE LIMIT HEREIN BEFORE ESTABLISHED. SECTION S. POWER AND AUTHORITY. (A) CARRYING OF FOREARMS NO MEMBER OF THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE SHALL WHILE ON DUTY OR OTHERWISE USE ANY FIREARM EXCEPT ON THE EXPRESS WRITTEN ORDER CF T,. CHIEF OF POLICE., (B) BREAKING AND ENTERING NO MEMBER OF THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE SHALL BREAK INTD OR OTHERWISE FORCEFULLY ENTER UPON ANY PRIVATE PROPERTY OR ENTER THE CWELL° ING OR HABITATION OF ANOTHER PERSON WITHOUT THE CONSENT OF THE OWNER OR OCCUPANT EXCEPT WHEN IMMEDIATELY ACCOMPANIED BY A REGULAR MEMBER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY WHO THEN AND THERE REQUESTS HIS AOD ON THE -3- ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW, (C) POWER OF ARREST A MEMBER OF THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE SMALL HAVE THE FOLLOW- ING POWERS OF ARREST AND NONE OTHER-. (I) HE MAY ARREST FOR A PUBLIC OFFENSE COMMITTEED IN HIS PRESENCE; (2) HE MAY ARREST A PERSON WHO HAD 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 COMMITTED IT. (4) HE MAY GO LEND PHYSICAL AID TO ANY REGULAR MEMBER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN MAKING ANY LAWFUL ARREST, WHEN AUTHORIZED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE, OR REQUESTED BY ANY REGULAR MEMBER OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT OF THIS CITY. SECTION 9, SUMMARY DISMISSAL AND PUBLICATION. 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 POLICE RESERRE FORCE, AND ANY BREACH OF THE RULES AND REGULATIONS ESTABLISHED BY THE CHIEF OF POLICE SHALL SUBJECT ANY MEMBER TO- SUMMARY EXPULSION AND THE FACT THEREOF MAY BE PUBLISHED AT THE ORDER OF THE CHIEF. SECTION 10, FALSE IMPERSONATION. IT SHALL BE A MISDEMEANOR PUNISMABLE BY A FINE NOT EXCEEDING Tvo HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200°00) FOR ANY PERSON TO WEAR, CARRY OR DISPLkY A POLICE RESERVE FORCE IDENTIFICATION CARD OR OTHERWISE DECEITFULLY REPRESENT Xi MSELF TO BE CONNECTED WITH THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE, UNLESS HE IS IN FACT A MEMBER THEREOF IN GOOD STANDING, SECTION II> CHIEF OF POLICE PRESCRIBES UNIFORMS AND BADGES. THE CHIEF OF POLICE SHALL PRESCRIEE THE UNJFCRMS AND FI,OGES FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE POLICE RESERVE FORCE AND DIRECT THE MANNER IN WH'C9P Tr.E mom SAME SHALL BE WORN. ANY PERSON OTHER THAN A MEMBER OF SAIC FORCE WHO SHALL WEAR SUCH UNIFORM OR BADGE AS MAY BE PRESCRIBED SHALL BE GUILTY OF A MISDEMEANOR AND UPON CONV ICTION SMALL BE SUBJECT TO FINE CF NOT EXCEEDING TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($200.00). SECTION 12. IF FOR ANY REASON ANY SECTU014, PARAGRAPH, SUB- DIVISION, CLAUSE, PHRASE, OR PRCVISION OF THIS ORDINANCE >HALL BE HELU INVALID, IT SHALL NOT AFFECT ANY VALID PROVRSOONS OF TH5 5 OR ANY OTHER ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI TO VHICH THESE RUi.Es AND REGUL° #'TIONS RELATE. SECTION 13. This ORDINANCE SHALL TAKE EFFECT FPCH AND AFTER ITS PUBLICATION ONE TIME CN THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATEON OFTHE CITY 'sF .w CORPUS CHRISTI, WHICH PUBLICATION SHALL CONTAIN THE CkFTION STATING IN SUMMARY THE PURPOSE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THE PENALTY FC,R Vll'LAT'ION THEREOF. SECTION 14. THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR THE FIRST TIME AND PASSED TO ITS SECOND READING ON THIS THE j7_®DA?'i 19_, BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE: A. A. LICHTENSTEIW ELLRoY KING P. C. CALLAWAY JAMES S. NA -.SMITH W. JAMES BRACE THAT THE FOREGOINQ ORDINANCE WAS READ FOR !4E SCCLND 'i'IME AN:o PASSEL, AY OF �/ TO ITS THIRD READING ON THIS THE / 'J" D° ��''''`�—, 19# Y THE FOLLOWING VOTE: / A. A. LICHTENSTEIN E LLROY KING P. C. CALLAWAY JAMES S. NAISNITH W. DANES BRACE Q�1 °5° THAT THE FOREGOING ORDINANCE WAS R AD FOR THE THIRD TIME AND PASSED FINALLY ON THIS THE DAY OF y 19549 BY THE FOLLOWING VOTED A. A. LICHTENSTEIN ELLROY KING Pe C. CALLAWAY Gam® JAMES So NAISMITH W. JAMES BRACE J PASSED AND APPROVED THIS THE %/^ 4� DAY OF a 1954, MAYOR THE CITY &—C-6RPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS ATTEST CITY SECRETA APPROVED AS 0 LEGAL FORM, CITY ATTORNEY 0 —6— 5or