(A) The Chief of Police or City Administrator’s designee may prescribe rules for the government of police officers of the city, subject to approval by the City Commission, which shall be entered in a book of Police Department rules and orders, and may be amended or revoked by the Chief of Police upon written notice to the City Commission.
(B) Such rules may establish one or more divisions within the Police Department, each of which divisions may be charged with performing one or more of the functions of the Police Department enumerated in § 30.45.
(C) Any such divisions shall be supervised by an officer of the Police Department, who shall be responsible for the particular functions of the Police Department assigned to the particular division supervised by him or her.
(D) It shall be the duty of all members of the police force to comply with such rules and orders while effective.
(E) Such rules and regulations shall designate the chain of command for the Department so that in the absence or disability of the Chief, the responsibility for the operation of the Department shall immediately and automatically be vested in the next ranking officer or member of the Department present.
(1991 Code, § 1.82)