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§ 33.02 CHIEF OF POLICE.
   (A)   Pursuant to the requirements of KRS 83A.080, the Office of the Chief of Police is hereby created.
   (B)   The Chief of Police shall be appointed by the Board of Commissioners and shall serve as the Chief Executive Officer of the Police Department.
   (C)   The Chief of Police is responsible for the management, direction, and control of the operations and administration of the Police Department. The Chief of Police shall also be responsible for other duties as assigned by the City Manager, ordinance, or statute.
§ 33.03 OATH OF OFFICE.
   The Chief of Police before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, shall take an oath before the Mayor to faithfully discharge the duties of his or her office. The oath shall be subscribed by the person taking it, and filed in the Office of the City Clerk.
§ 33.04 CONCEALED WEAPONS AUTHORIZED.
   (A)   All members of the Police Department who carry deadly weapons on or about their persons in their regularly scheduled duties as police officer for the City may carry concealed deadly weapons on or about their persons at all times within the state.
   (B)   Deadly weapons that may be carried by members of the Police Department within the state are those weapons that are usually carried by such officers in performing their duties while on regularly scheduled shift of duty.
   (C)   This section is enacted for the express purpose of protecting the police officer from prosecution under provisions of KRS 527.020(3) when they may be outside the corporate limits of the City and for no other purpose.
(1995 Code, § 2.16.010)
§ 33.05 POLICY AND PROCEDURE MANUAL; RULES AND REGULATIONS ADOPTED.
   (A)   The City adopts a policy and procedure manual and rules and regulations for the Police Department, which governs the rules, and regulations for the conduct, management and operation of the police department of the City and the management and conduct of the affairs of the Department. A copy of the manual is on file with the City Clerk and is incorporated herein by reference as if fully set forth herein.
   (B)   The Chief of Police shall have the authority to amend and supplement the rules and regulations as adopted by the Board of Commissioners provided, however, that any changes or additions shall be reviewed and approved by the Board of Commissioners on an annual basis.
§ 33.06 POLICE DOGS.
   (A)   Prohibited conduct. No person shall interfere with or harass any police dog owned or used by the Police Department while the police dog is in the performance of any law enforcement functions or duties; nor shall any person intentionally or maliciously or attempt to intentionally or maliciously, torture, torment, beat, strike, mutilate, disable, kill or otherwise injure or harm any police dog while such police dog is in the performance of any law enforcement functions or duties.
   (B)   Penalty. Any person violating the provisions herein shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor and shall be subject to fine and/or imprisonment in accordance with the penalties for a Class A misdemeanor as provided for in the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
(1995 Code, § 2.16.030) (Ord. O-95-4, passed 2-27-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99
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