(A) (1) There shall be created within the Village Police Department an auxiliary police unit. Council shall provide for the regulations of the auxiliary police officers. The Mayor shall be the executive head of the auxiliary police unit, and shall make all appointments and removals of auxiliary police officers, subject to the general rules prescribed by Council by ordinance. The Mayor shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the auxiliary police unit. The Village Marshal (that is, Chief of Police) shall have exclusive control of the stationing and transferring of all auxiliary police officers, under such rules as the Mayor prescribes. The Mayor may, with the advice and consent of Council, appoint qualified auxiliary police officers that agree to serve for nominal compensation. No person shall receive an appointment under this section unless he has, not more than 180 days prior to receiving appointment, passed a physical examination given by a licensed physician, as required by the Police and Firefighter's Disability and Pension Fund. Council shall pay the professional fee for such physical examination.
(2) The auxiliary police officers, after appointment by the Mayor and confirmation by Council, may be provided a minimum of one uniform and associated equipment, as designated by the Chief of Police, to remain the property of the village.
(B) (1) The Council may establish, by ordinance, a parking enforcement unit within the police department, and provide for the regulation of parking enforcement officers. The Mayor shall be the executive head of the parking enforcement unit officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the Council by ordinance, and shall prescribe rules for the organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of the parking enforcement unit. The Mayor may appoint parking enforcement officers who agree to serve for nominal compensation, and persons with physical disabilities may receive appointments as parking enforcement officers.
(2) The authority of the parking enforcement officers shall be limited to the enforcement of ordinances governing parking in handicapped parking locations and fire lanes and any other parking ordinances specified in the ordinance creating the parking enforcement unit. Parking enforcement officers shall have no other powers.
(3) The training the parking enforcement officers shall receive shall include instruction in general administrative rules and judicial system as it relates to parking enforcement unit, the role of the judicial system as it relates to parking regulations and enforcement, proper techniques and methods relating to the enforcement of the parking ordinance, human interaction skills, and first aid.
(Ord. 1993-O-15, passed 5-20-93; Am. Ord. 1999-O-54, passed 10-14-99)
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Similar provisions, see R.C. § 737.161