(A) Pursuant to I.C. 36-8-3-20, the town hereby specifically creates, recognizes and ratifies the position of “police reserve officer.”
(B) The number of police reserve officers appointed for the town shall be ten, although it is specifically contemplated that such number may be increased or decreased by subsequent action of the Town Council.
(C) Appointment as a police reserve officer for the town shall be made by the Town Council, pursuant to such reasonable and appropriate standards as the Town Council may from time to time establish and implement. A police reserve officer may not be appointed until the officer has completed any training and probationary period specified by the rules and regulations of the Town Police Department.
(D) Police reserve officers appointed for the town shall not be and shall not be deemed members of the regular Town Police Department; provided, however, police reserve officers so appointed shall have the same police powers as regular Town Police Department officers, except as limited by the rules of the Town Police Department and the Town Marshal as now existing or hereafter established.
(E) A police reserve officer appointed for the town may serve in a secondary employment position as a police reserve officer subject to the prior written approval of the Town Marshal. When so approved, a town police reserve officer may use Town Police Department issued equipment and uniform and may exercise police powers while serving in a secondary employment position. If not so approved by the Town Marshal, a police reserve officer appointed for the town shall not have nor exercise any police powers while serving in a secondary employment position, and no Town Police Department issued equipment shall be used or carried nor a Town Police Department uniform worn while performing in a secondary employment position. For purposes of this section, a SECONDARY EMPLOYMENT POSITION shall be defined as serving as a full-time or part-time employee, serving as an independent contractor, serving as a volunteer, or otherwise serving outside the regular duties assigned by the Town Police Department as a security guard, security officer, loss prevention officer, risk manager, or in any other private capacity.
(F) (1) A police reserve officer appointed for the town after June 30, 1993 may not:
(a) Make an arrest;
(b) Conduct a search or a seizure of a person or property; or
(c) Carry a firearm;
(2) Unless the police reserve officer successfully completes a pre-basic course under I.C. 5-2-1-9, as amended. The police reserve officers appointed for the town on or before June 30, 1993 shall not be subject to this pre-basic course requirement.
(G) Police reserve officers for the town may be paid an annual uniform allowance in an amount established by the Town Council as a part of the regular budgetary process which uniform allowance shall be paid in intervals convenient to the Town Marshal and the Town Clerk. Police reserve officers may receive such additional compensation as is permitted by law to the extent that money is appropriated for such purpose by the Town Council.
(H) Police reserve officers for the town shall be governed by the rules and regulations of the Town Police Department as such rules and regulations are established from time to time by the Town Marshal and the Town Council.
(I) Police reserve officers are not eligible to participate in any pension program provided for regular members of the Town Police Department.
(J) Police reserve officers may be covered by the medical treatment and burial expense provisions of the worker’s compensation law (I.C. 22-3-2 through I.C. 22-3-6) and the worker’s occupational diseases law (I.C. 22-3-7) if and only if the town obtains insurance coverage for police reserve officers, from time to time, for such benefits. Coverage for police reserve officers in such situations shall be limited to the benefits available under the insurance policy or policies obtained. The town does not assume and shall not be responsible directly for the medical treatment and burial expense provisions of the worker’s compensation law and the worker’s occupational diseases law beyond the benefits afforded by any available insurance policy in place from time to time.
(K) This section shall be in full force and effect immediately upon its passage and shall be applicable to all town police reserve officers for the remainder of calendar year 2012 and all years thereafter, except as this section shall hereafter be amended or repealed.
(Ord. 404, passed 9-4-2001; Ord. 404-A, passed 4-16-2012)