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Any hand gun or other weapon that will be carried or used by any private policeman or policewoman referred to in this chapter shall be registered with the Chief of Police of the City prior to granting a commission. No private policemen or private policewomen may be armed while on duty unless they have first complied with the provisions of Ohio R.C. Chapter 109.
(Ord. 69-1971. Passed 3-15-71.)
No person shall be commissioned as a private policeman or private policewoman unless he or she is licensed to do so. An applicant for such a commission must first have complied with Ohio R.C. Chapter 4749. An applicant for such a commission shall:
(a) Be at least twenty-one years of age or over;
(b) Be of sound physique, with good eyesight and not subject to vertigo, heart trouble or any other infirmity of body or mind which might render him or her unfit for the safe carrying out of the duties of such commission. Each applicant shall supply an affidavit to the Director of Public Safety stating that he or she is free from all of the infirmities mentioned in this section.
(c) Be able to read, write and speak the English language;
(d) Be clean in dress and person, of good moral character and not addicted to the use of intoxicating liquors or drugs;
(e) Produce on forms, to be provided by the Director of Public Safety of the City, affidavits of his or her good character from two reputable residents of the City or the County who have known him or her personally, and a further testimonial on a form provided for that purpose, from his or her last employer, unless, in the estimation of the Safety Director, sufficient reason is given for its omission;
(f) Fill out, upon a form to be provided by the Director of Public Safety, a statement giving his or her full name, residence and places of residence for five years previous to moving to his or her present address; his or her age, color, height and color of eyes and hair; his or her place of birth and the length of time he or she has resided in the County; whether or not he or she is a citizen of the United States; the place of his or her previous employment; whether he or she is single or married; whether or not he or she has ever been arrested for or convicted of a felony or misdemeanor; whether or not he or she has ever been summoned to court; and whether or not his or her driving license has every been revoked, and, if so, for what reason. Such statement shall be signed and sworn to by the applicant and filed with the Safety Director as a permanent record. The Safety Director is hereby authorized and empowered to establish additional rules and regulations covering the issuance of such commission of private policeman or private policewoman not inconsistent herewith, as may be necessary and reasonable.
(Ord. 69-1971. Passed 3-15-71.)
Each applicant for a commission as a private policeman or private policewoman must file with his or her application three unretouched photographs of himself or herself, in such position as the Safety Director may direct, taken within thirty days preceding the filing of his or her application. Photographs shall be of a size which may be easily attached to his or her commission, one of which shall be attached to the commission when issued, the others to be filed with the application in the office of the Safety Director. The photograph shall be so attached to the commission that it cannot be removed and another photograph substituted without detection. Where the application for a commission is denied, two copies of the photograph shall be returned to the applicant by the Safety Director. Each commissioned private policeman or private policewoman shall, upon demand of an inspector of licenses or a policeman of the Police Department, exhibit his or her license and photograph for inspection. All applications for such commission as a private policeman and/or private policewoman shall be notarized, and failure to list arrests and/or any other information desired by the Safety Director shall be considered falsification of the application and the applicant shall be subject to arrest therefor. All applicants for special police work as private policeman and private policewoman must be fingerprinted, and the Director of Public Safety, through the Police Department, shall cause a complete record check to be made of the applicant's character, or obtain any other information he or she may desire.
(Ord. 69-1971. Passed 3-15-71.)
An identification card, with photograph attached, as outlined in Section 759.08, shall be carried by such private policeman and/or private policewoman at all times while on duty in the City, in order to identify him or her to the Police Department, showing that he or she has been qualified to the satisfaction of the Director of Public Safety of the City.
(Ord. 69-1971. Passed 3-15-71.)
Whoever violates any of the provisions of this chapter is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree and shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) or imprisoned not more than sixty days, or both, for each offense. A separate offense shall be deemed committed each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues.