(A) The Town Council President is the executive officer of the Town Marshal’s Department. The Town Council President is authorized to designate a Council committee chair to be the liaison between the Marshals’s Department and the Town Council President and the Town Council. Designee will be responsible for the operation of the Marshal’s Department, propose to the Council for a vote of all equipment necessary for the proper operation of the Marshal’s Department. Designee will be responsible to report to the Town Council President any complaints received against the Marshal, Deputy Marshals and Reserve Officers. The designee will be appointed by the Town Council President in January of each year.
(B) The Town Council President or his or her designee will not possess any arrest powers. Their position is an administrative position only.
(C) The Town Marshal position is to be a hired position by a vote of the Town Council. The Town Council by vote may remove the Marshal from his or her position given just cause.
(D) The Town Council will set compensation for the Marshal position and Deputy Marshal positions.
(E) The Town Council and the Town Marshal shall develop ordinances and standard operating procedures for the Marshal Department. All ordinances and standard operating procedures are to be approved by the Town Council by a vote. A copy of all ordinances and standard operating procedures are to be kept on an electronic file on the town CPU. A printed copy of all ordinances and standard operating procedures to be kept in a loose leaf binder in the Town Clerk-Treasurer’s office.
(F) The Town Council shall provide the Town Marshal’s Department, contained within a loose leaf binder, all enforceable ordinances, all standard operating procedures approved by the Town Council.
(G) The Town Marshal is authorized under town Ord. 2009-T-004 to hire up to two Deputy Marshals and as many Reserve Officers necessary to operate the Marshal’s Department efficiently (as funds for liability insurance will allow).
(H) The Town Marshal shall keep all records of current and past Deputy Marshals and Reserve Officers on file at the Town Marshal’s Department office. These records are to include all training received that authorizes the Marshal, Deputy Marshals and Reserve Officers to exercise their arrest powers.
(I) The Town Marshal is to report to the Town Council President or his or her designee all written reports concerning hours worked and incident records as requested by Town Council President or his or her designee.
(J) The Town Marshal shall submit a written report to the Town Council in the monthly meeting all activities of the Marshal’s Department since the previous Town Council monthly meeting.
(K) The Town Marshal, Deputy Marshal and Reserve Officers can request the presence of the Town Council President or designee as an observer only at any incident involving the Town Marshal’s Department within the corporate limits of the town if he or she deems it necessary.
(Ord. 2009-T-017, passed 4-27-2009)