(a) Application. Upon written application of any person owning property within the City for the appointment of one or more private policemen, the City Manager may commission such persons, as may be designated in the application, to serve as private policemen until the commission is revoked at the written request of the person presenting the application, or by the order of the City Manager. (1947 Code, Sec. 2-160.)
(b) Duties. All private policemen shall preserve the peace, protect persons and property and enforce all ordinances of the City and all criminal laws of the State and the United States upon and near the premises of the person who applied for their appointment, and shall have the same powers to make arrests as regular policemen.
Private policemen shall not be paid by the City for their services.
(1947 Code, Secs. 2-161 and 2-162.)
(c) Bond. Before entering upon his duties, every private policeman shall give bond to the City in the sum of five thousand dollars ($5,000) conditioned on the faithful performance of his duties, and shall take the same oath required to be taken by policemen.
(d) Insurance. In addition to the surety bond, each private policeman shall carry comprehensive liability insurance in sums of not less than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for injury or death to any one person in any one accident and twenty thousand dollars ($20,000) for injury or death to more than one person.
(e) Uniforms. The City Manager shall designate the type of uniform and badge to be worn by private policemen. The uniform and badge shall be distinctive from the uniform and badge worn by regular policemen of the City. (Ord. 8904. Passed 12-9-57.)