(a) There is created within the Village Police Department an auxiliary police unit, the members of which shall be appointed by the Mayor.
(b) Auxiliary police officers shall serve so long as the Mayor may direct, or until a resignation submitted by any such member is accepted by the Mayor.
(c) The members of the auxiliary police unit shall have the residency requirements established by the Chief of Police for full-time and part-time officers of the department, and may not be under the age of twenty-one years at the time of their appointment, and must comply with such other requirements as provided by rules adopted under subsection (e) hereof. The rate of pay for said position is established to be the same hourly rate as assigned by ordinance to part-time police officers in the Village Police Department.
(d) The Chief of Police shall be the commanding officer of the auxiliary police unit and shall have control of the assignment, training, stationing, and the direction of work of such unit. The auxiliary police unit will have all police powers, but shall perform only such police duties as assigned by the Chief of Police and shall act only when in the prescribed uniform or partial uniform. Such auxiliary members shall obey the chain of command of the Police Department and shall take orders from all regular appointed members thereof.
(e) The members of the auxiliary police unit shall be subject to the rules for the Police Department for organization, administration, conduct and control as established by the Chief of Police for full-time and part-time officers of the department.
(f) The Chief of Police is authorized to prescribe the type of uniform or part thereof which shall be worn by the members of the auxiliary police unit, and the times and places such uniform or portion thereof shall be worn.
(g) (1) All services performed by auxiliary policemen shall be on a voluntary basis and within the Village.
(2) The rate of pay for auxiliary policemen is established to be the same hourly rate as assigned by ordinance to part-time police officers in the Police Department.
(h) This section is for the protection of public peace, health, property, safety and general welfare, and neither the Village nor any agent or representative of the Village, an officer appointed under this section, or any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or the receiver or trustees of any other agent thereof, who in good faith executes any executive order or rule promulgated pursuant to this section shall be liable for injury or damage sustained as the direct or proximate result of such action.
(Ord. 2012-47. Passed 12-29-12.)