The Chief of Police shall be the commanding officer of the Reserve Police Unit and shall have control of the assigning, training, stationing and directing of work of the Unit. The Reserve Police Unit shall have all police powers; they shall not, normally, have powers of arrest or bear firearms, except that the Mayor, acting as Director of Public Safety, may confer the power of arrest and the right to carry firearms at those times of emergency or peril as he deems appropriate. The Reserve Police Unit shall perform those other duties as are assigned by the Chief of Police and shall act only when in the prescribed uniform or portion of uniform. The Chief of Police shall prescribe the time and place the uniform or portion thereof shall be worn. The Reserve members shall obey the chain of command of the Police Department and shall take orders from all regular appointed members thereof.
(1979 Code 34.08)