(A) Officers and employees of the town who have discretionary duty to enforce a statute or ordinance may, pursuant to Cal. Penal Code § 836.5 and subject to the provisions of this chapter, arrest a person without a warrant whenever any such officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor or infraction in the officer’s or employee’s presence which he or she has the discretionary duty to enforce, and to issue a notice to appear in court, pursuant to Cal. Penal Code Title 3, Chapter 5C, Part 2, commencing with § 853.5.
(B) No officer or employee shall be allowed by his or her supervisor to exercise the arrest and citation authority conferred in this section unless the officer or employee is within a classification of town officers and employees designated by resolution of the Town Council to exercise the arrest and citation authority as to specified misdemeanor or infraction violations.
(Prior Code, § 1.12.010) (Ord. 528, passed - -1984)