(A) The Chief of Police or City Administrator’s designee is hereby authorized to appoint special officers, to be known as civilian crossing guards, in such numbers as he or she may deem necessary, to perform police duties under the direction of and in compliance with such rules and regulations as the Chief of Police shall promulgate.
(B) Such civilian crossing guards shall wear such badges, dress and insignia as the Chief of Police shall direct, and shall be equipped in the manner which he or she deems necessary for the proper discharge of their duties.
(C) The Chief of Police or City Administrator’s designee shall promulgate rules relating to the qualifications, appointment and removal of such civilian crossing guards. Such persons shall serve with such compensation as may be provided for by the City Commission.
(D) Civilian crossing guards shall be entitled to all rights and benefits provided under the provisions of Public Act 317 of 1969, being M.C.L.A. § 418.101 through 418.941, and the amendments thereto, the same being known as the Workers’ Disability Compensation Law of Michigan.
(E) It shall be unlawful for any civilian crossing guard to exercise his or her authority as such guard, or to wear the uniform or insignia, or to display his or her badge in an attempt to exercise his or her authority, except during the performance of actual authorized police duty.
(F) It shall be unlawful for any civilian crossing guard to knowingly and willfully neglect or refuse to respond for assignment of duty when called under such rules and regulations as promulgated by the Chief of Police or City Administrator’s designee.
(G) It shall be unlawful for any person not duly appointed and sworn in as a civilian crossing guard to impersonate such officer, or to wear, carry or display the badge, designated dress or insignia, of such civilian crossing guards.
(H) School crossing guards; failure to obey: a driver of a motor vehicle who fails to stop when a school crossing guard is in a school crossing and is holding a stop sign in an upright position visible to approaching vehicle traffic is guilty of a misdemeanor. In a proceeding for a violation of this section, proof that the particular vehicle described in the citation, complaint or warrant was used in the violation, together with proof that the defendant named in the citation, complaint, warrant or appearance ticket was the registered owner of the vehicle at the time of the violation, constitutes in the evidence a presumption that the registered owner of the vehicle was the driver of the vehicle at the time of the violation.
(I) Pursuant to M.C.L.A. § 764.9c, a civil crossing guard is authorized to issue appearance tickets for a violation of division (H) above.
(1991 Code, § 1.83) Penalty, see § 10.99