(a) The Mayor as Safety Director of the City is hereby empowered to establish a corps of permanent, part-time, non-civil service personnel to be known and identified as Auxiliary Police Officers.
(b) Each Auxiliary Police Officer shall receive benefits, expenses and allowances or compensation as approved by the Mayor, while holding such appointment.
(c) All Auxiliary Police Officers shall be considered unclassified permanent, part-time employees of the City and while on "assigned duty" shall be covered by Workers' Compensation in accordance with the Industrial Commission of Ohio Rules and Regulations pertaining to the volunteer policemen and firemen of public employers.
(d) The appointment, refusal to appoint and removal from appointment of all Auxiliary Officers shall be at the sole discretion of the Mayor and all decisions as to the appointment, refusal to appoint, or removal, shall be final and without recourse or appeal.
(e) The Mayor as Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized to develop and promulgate rules and regulations for the government and control of the Auxiliary Corps and to establish qualifications and requirements for appointment to the position of an Auxiliary Police Officer.
(f) All Auxiliary Police Officers shall be at least twenty-one years of age at the time of appointment to the position and shall meet all qualifications and requirements and comply with all rules and regulations as prescribed by the Mayor.
(g) The establishment of the Auxiliary Police Corps is deemed to be an exercise by the City of its police powers for the protection of the public peace and property and for the health, safety and welfare of the citizens of the City and neither the City nor the agent or representative of the City, nor any person who in good faith, executes any order, rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to this section shall be liable for injury, death or damage sustained by any person as a direct or proximate result of such action.
(Ord. 23-81. Passed 6-1-81.)