(A) The Clerk-Treasurer of the Town of Hagerstown is hereby empowered to receive and deposit monetary donations which are donated for use by the Hagerstown Police Department, and the donations shall be deposited in a separate fund which shall be entitled Hagerstown Police Department Donation Fund, the deposits being placed with a financial institution named by the town as a depository.
(B) The purposes that donations deposited in the Fund may be used for the Hagerstown Police Department (Department) include the following: purchase of equipment to enhance the Department, including, but not necessarily limited to, computer, technology, safety, and vehicle equipment, firearms, defense devises, body minor, clothing, and supplies; purpose of enhancing, repairing, maintaining various equipment, supplies, and or clothing for the Department; pay for training, schooling, or classes relative to law enforcement; as well as purchasing flowers for decedents with ties of some nature to the Hagerstown Police Department, and purchasing books from a library in memory of a decedent with ties of some nature to the Hagerstown Police Department, and/or other appropriate memorial gifts for decedents with ties of some nature to the Hagerstown Police Department, and costs or expenses directly related thereto.
(C) That although the purposes that donations deposited in the Hagerstown Police Department Donation Fund can be used for include those listed above, the Town Marshal and the Clerk-Treasurer of the town shall work together to internally account for the Fund in such a way as to give due regard to the intention of any donor in making any donation to the Fund. In the event that a donor gives a donation with a more specific intent, the town and the Department shall be guided by the donor’s intent in selecting an appropriate purpose from those provided above in division (B).
(D) The Clerk-Treasurer is also hereby empowered to disburse the funds to persons or agencies from whom services, equipment, or products are purchased, upon proper presentation of a claim before the Town Council of Hagerstown and acceptance thereof.
(Ord. 3-2005, passed 4-4-2005)