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The park and recreation board may select such security personnel as it may deem necessary to protect the parks and property administered by the park and recreation board, either within or without the city limits. Such security personnel shall be commissioned as police officers, after clearance as to qualifications, by proper municipal authorities at the request of the board. Such persons shall be under the control of the park and recreation board and their compensation shall be fixed by the board. They shall be subject to removal or dismissal at the pleasure, and without cause, by the board. None of these provisions, however, shall be deemed to limit in any manner the authority of the police department of the city, or other peace officers, but shall be cumulative thereof. (Amend. of 5-3-97, Prop. No. 6)
In the event of any conflict of jurisdiction arising between the park department and any other department of the city, or in regard to any administrative detail thereof, the same shall be referred to the city council and its decision thereon shall be final.
All ad valorem tax funds and other funds appropriated by the city council for park purposes, and all sums received from other sources for park purposes, shall be held in the city treasury subject to the order and disbursement of the park and recreation board, and shall be paid out upon warrants issued by the park and recreation board signed by either the president of the board or the individual designated by the board and countersigned by the city controller. (Amend. of 4-2-83, Prop. No. 6; Amend. of 11-8-05, Prop. No. 8)
All property purchased, acquired or given to the city, shall be taken in the name of the city, and if given, deeded or devised to the park and recreation department of the city, or to the park and recreation board of the city, shall be deemed to be the property of the city to be used for park purposes. All deeds, leases, conveyances and contracts on behalf of the park and recreation board of the city shall be signed by the president of the park and recreation board and attested by its secretary, in addition to the signatures necessary on behalf of the city as herein otherwise provided.