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The city shall maintain a police force consisting of an officer directly in charge thereof and of such number of other officers, patrolmen and employees as may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Section 38 of this Charter. In case of riot or like emergency, the city manager may appoint additional patrolmen and officers for temporary service who need not be in the classified service of the city. The officer directly in charge of the police force shall have control of the stationing, and other disposition, of all members of the force under such rules and regulations as he may establish with the approval of the city manager.
(Adopted by electorate, November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 17-10)
No person shall act as a special police officer, special detective, or other special police officer for any purpose whatsoever, except on the written authority of the officer directly in charge of the police force or of the city manager. Such authority shall be exercised only under the direction and control of the officer directly in charge of the police force and shall be issued for a specified time.
(Adopted by electorate, November 7, 2023 – Amending Ordinance No. 5-23)
The city shall maintain a fire force consisting of an officer in charge thereof and of such number of other officers, firemen and employees as may be fixed in accordance with the provisions of Section 38 of this Charter. In case of riot, conflagration, or like emergency, the city manager may appoint additional officers and firemen for temporary service who need not be in the classified service of the city. The officer directly in charge of the fire force shall have control of the stationing, and other disposition, of the force under such rules and regulations as he may establish with the approval of the city manager.
(Adopted by electorate, November 2, 2010 – Amending Ordinance No. 17-10)
IMPROVEMENTS AND ASSESSMENTS
The commission shall have power by ordinance to provide for the construction, reconstruction, repair and maintenance of all things in the nature of local improvements, and to provide for the payment of any part of the cost thereof by levying and collecting special assessments upon abutting, adjacent and contiguous or other specially benefited property. The amount assessed against the property specially benefited to pay for any such local improvement shall not exceed the amount of benefits accruing to such property.
Special assessments upon the property deemed benefited by a public improvement shall be by any one of the following methods:
(A) By percentage of the tax value of the property assessed.
(B) In proportion to the benefits which may result from the improvement.
(C) By the foot frontage of the property bounding or abutting upon the improvement.
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