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(Amended by Ord. No. 170,055, Eff. 11/13/94; Renumbered from Former Sec. 52.27.2 by Ord. No. 177,374, Eff. 4/9/06.)
(a) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Code, the Board of Police Commissioners may:
1. Cause the officer’s badge and number to be retired from active service and use.
2. Cause the badge, or a similar badge, to be presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse of surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family, as a memorial honoring the officer.
3. Cause the officer’s City-issued equipment, including an officer’s duty weapon, shooting medals, cap piece, handcuffs, call box key and buttons, to also be included at the City’s expense in the memorial which is presented to the deceased officer’s surviving spouse or surviving member(s) of the officer’s immediate family.
A. Prior to the presentation, the Board shall cause the badge and other City-issued equipment to be affixed permanently to a plaque or within a frame, which will effectively preclude improper use of the badge or other City-issued equipment, with a statement clearly visible showing the officer’s death in the line of duty.
B. No person shall remove from the plaque or frame any badge or other City-issued equipment presented under this section, or wear such a badge, or display it, except while it is attached to the plaque or within the frame, with the above described statement clearly visible. Any badge or other City-issued equipment removed, worn or displayed in violation of this subsection shall be subject to confiscation by the Board.
(Amended by Ord. No. 164,340, Eff. 2/20/89.)
No person, other than a sworn police officer, shall wear any shoulder emblem or any uniform of a pattern, or design, or in the semblance of the uniform, adopted, or hereafter adopted, by the Board for the use of the regular members of the police department, or wear upon any uniform any star, badge, or insignia of a pattern or design that may be mistaken for, or confused with, the official police officer’s badge.
Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph of this section, any retired Los Angeles Police officer authorized by the Chief of Police and actively employed to perform traffic control and crowd control pursuant to the provisions of Section 80.03.1 at the site of the filming of any motion picture or television production, may wear the uniform of the Los Angeles Police Department with the retirees retired officer’s badge affixed thereto.
The Board shall have the power and authority to adopt and prescribe, by resolution, the uniform to be worn by all special officers, bank guards, and funeral escorts, if any uniform is worn, while performing the duties of a special police officer. The uniform so prescribed for any such class of special officer may, but need not be the same as the uniform so prescribed for the other such class, or classes of special officers.
The Board is hereby authorized and directed to issue to each and every regular Police Officer of this City a numbered identification card which shall bear the printed name, serial number, signature, photograph and right index fingerprint of each such Regular Police Officer. Each such card shall bear the signature of the Chief of Police, or the Chief’s duly appointed deputy, in office at the time of issuance of such identification card. Each identification card shall state thereon that the holder thereof is a police officer of this City.
Neither the Board, the Chief of Police nor any other person shall issue a Police Identification Card as provided for in this Section to any person other than a Regular Police Officer. An honorably retired police officer shall return their identification card to the Department and a new card which has the preprinted word “RETIRED” across the face of the card will be issued to the officer, provided however that possession of such card shall be a privilege only, and the card shall be surrendered to the Chief of Police upon demand. In any event, the Department shall issue to honorably retired police officers identification certificates which carry endorsement and other requirements set forth in Penal Code Section 12027(a) and the Department shall implement any review by said Penal Code section. (Amended by Ord. No. 161,876, Eff. 1/23/87.)
No person other than a Regular or Retired Police Officer shall have in their possession any Identification Card issued to, or intended to be issued to, or purporting to have been issued to a Regular or Retired Police Officer of the City of Los Angeles, provided, however, that an honorably Retired Police Officer may possess an Identification Card which has the printed word “RETIRED” across the face of said card. (Amended by Ord. No. 161,876, Eff. 1/23/87.)
No person shall print or issue or have in their possession any identification card similar to the identification card mentioned in Section 52.29 of this Code, or any identification card stating that the person whose name appears thereon is a police officer or sworn officer of this City.
(Amended by Ord. No. 172,692, Eff. 8/8/99.)
(a) Uniform Departmental Badge. “Uniform departmental Badge” shall mean a badge, to be readily distinguishable from the official police officer’s badge, of a design selected by the Purchasing Agent and approved by the Council for the use of departments of this City other than the Police Department, the Fire Department and the Office of the City Attorney.
(b) Badges Issued to Other Than Elected Officials and Members of Boards and Commissions. The provisions of this subdivision apply to the issuance of uniform departmental badges to other than elected officials and members of boards and commissions:
1. Except as authorized in the appropriate departmental personnel ordinance, no uniform departmental badge shall be issued to, or be carried, worn or displayed by any person employed by any department whose funds are under the control of the City Council. The respective boards of departments given control of their own funds by the Charter may designate the officers and employees entitled to use badges under the restrictions set forth in this subsection.
2. No uniform departmental badge shall be issued to or be used, worn or carried by any person unless the person’s duties involve the active enforcement of law, or unless the person performs other public duties which, in the judgment of the board or officer in control of the department or office are such as to require that such person wear or carry a badge for purposes of identification.
3. Uniform departmental badges shall be issued only by the managing officers of the respective departments or offices. Such badges shall be consecutively numbered in each department or office. The managing officer of each department or office shall keep records showing the number of each badge, the date of its issuance, and the name and residence address of the person to whom issued. Each badge shall remain the property of the City and must be returned to the managing officer at the conclusion of the holder’s service or upon the holder being assigned duties not requiring the use of the badge.
4. Each officer or employee to whom a badge is issued must reimburse the City for the cost thereof if the badge is lost or destroyed through that officer’s or employee’s negligence, or if the badge is not turned in to the managing officer at the termination of employment.
5. Issuance of identification disks is authorized and any City employee may, by order of the respective officers or boards in control of their departments or offices, be permitted or required while performing their duties to wear identification disks devoid of ornamentation and containing only plain stamped letters and figures calculated to identify the wearer of the wearer’s position. Such disks must be no more than two inches in diameter.
6. When the holder of any badge, the use of which is authorized under this subsection, is honorably retired, the same or another badge may be reissued to the retiree, provided there is permanently affixed thereto or engraved or embossed thereon, at the retiree’s expense, the word “RETIRED” and figures showing the retiree’s term of service. Such badge holder must reimburse the City for the cost of the badge.
(c) Badges Issued to Elected Officials and Members of Boards and Commissions. (Amended by Ord. No. 176,102, Eff. 8/23/04.) The provisions of this subsection shall apply to elected officials and to members of the Board of Police Commissioners, Board of Fire Commissioners, Board of Airport Commissioners, Board of Harbor Commissioners, and Board of Water and Power Commissioners. Members of all other boards and commissions shall not be issued badges.
1. The City Clerk shall be responsible for purchasing, issuing and record-keeping related to badges issued to elected officials and members of City boards and commissions. The City Clerk shall utilize such forms and procedures as deemed necessary and appropriate to satisfy the responsibilities assigned to that Office under this subsection.
2. The City Clerk shall issue badges to the incumbent in each of the following City offices: Mayor, City Attorney, City Controller, and Member of the City Council. When any such elected official leaves office the same or another badge may be reissued to the official, provided there is permanently affixed thereto or engraved or embossed thereon the word “RETIRED” and figures showing the official’s term of service.
3. Requests from boards or commissions for the issuance of badges shall be submitted to the City Clerk for referral to the appropriate Council Committee for review and recommendation to the full Council. Upon Council approval, the individual in question shall be issued a badge. However before the issuance of the badge, the person being issued the badge shall be required to read a document which sets forth the terms and conditions imposed on the issuance of said badge, and shall sign that document acknowledging the receipt of the badge and the reading of the terms and conditions. The terms and conditions shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
a. The badge is the property of the City of Los Angeles;
b. Upon leaving the board or commission, the badge shall be collected and forwarded to the City Clerk, who, upon request from the board or commission, shall reissue the same or another badge to the departing commissioner, provided the badge is permanently encased in plexiglass or other substance more than twice its size and from which it cannot be removed, the badge is engraved or embossed with the word “RETIRED” and figures showing the departing commissioner’s term of service, and, it conforms to any additional control measures and mechanisms to prevent misuse as instituted by the City Clerk; the recipient of such badge shall reimburse the City for the cost of the badge;
c. Loss of the badge shall be reported immediately to the City Clerk in writing, with replacement at the expense of the person to whom the badge was issued;
d. The badge may be used only during activities related to the responsibilities of the board or commission.
(d) Unauthorized Badges – City Officers and Employees. No officer or employee of this City shall wear, carry or use, within or under color of the performance of their official duties, any badge which the officer or employee is not expressly authorized to use by this Code. All unauthorized badges must be returned to the managing officers of the respective departments or offices.
(e) Persons Other Than City Officers and Employees. No person other than a City officer or employee shall wear, carry or use any badge or other insignia of office or employment in the government of this City, or any badge, identification card or insignia which is calculated to indicate that the holder is an officer or employee of this City, provided, however, that this provision shall not apply if the possession and use of such badge, card or insignia is expressly permitted by ordinance.
The port warden and special officers of the Harbor Department of the City of Los Angeles are hereby duly appointed and designated as peace officers for the purpose of carrying concealed upon their person or concealed within any vehicle which is under their control or direction any pistol, revolver or other firearm capable of being concealed upon the person while such port warden or special officers are in the City of Los Angeles and while they are engaged in the performance of the duties of their respective employments. (Added by Ord. No. 140,142, Eff. 5/15/70.)
(Amended by Ord. No. 170,143, Eff. 1/6/95.)
(a) Uniform City Attorney Badge. “Uniform City Attorney Badge” shall mean a badge, to be readily distinguished from the official police officers badge, of a design selected by the Purchasing Agent and approved by the City Attorney.
(b) Issuance Restricted. No uniform City Attorney badge shall be issued to or be used, worn or carried by any person, unless the employee’s duties involve the active enforcement of law, or unless the employee performs other public duties which, in the judgment of the City Attorney are such as to require that the employee wear or carry a badge for purposes of identification.
(c) Managing Officers – Issuance and Records of Badges. Uniform City Attorney badges shall be issued only by the City Attorney. Such badges shall be consecutively numbered. The City Attorney shall keep records showing the number of each badge, the date of its issuance, and the name and residence address of the person to whom issued. Each badge shall remain the property of the City and must be returned to the City Attorney at the conclusion of the holder’s service or upon the holder being assigned duties not requiring the use of the badge.
(d) Reimbursement Required. Each employee to whom a badge is issued must reimburse the City for the cost thereof if the badge be lost or destroyed through the employee’s negligence, or if the badge be not turned in to the City Attorney at the termination of employment.
(e) Retired Officers and Employees. When the holder of any badge, the use of which is authorized under this section, is honorably retired, the same or another badge may be reissued to the retiree, provided there be permanently affixed thereto to engraved or embossed thereon, at the holder’s expense, the word “RETIRED” and figures showing the retiree’s term of service. The retiree must reimburse the City for the cost of the badge.
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