(a) There is created within the Police Department an Auxiliary Police Unit, the members of which shall be appointed by the Manager.
(b) Auxiliary police officers shall serve so long as the Manager may direct, or until a resignation submitted by such member is accepted by the Manager.
(Ord. 697. Passed 9-11-84.)
(c) The members of the Auxiliary Police Unit shall be residents of the State of Ohio, and may not be under the age of twenty-one years at the time of their appointment, and shall meet such other requirements as provided by the rules and regulations in subsection (e) hereof. (Ord. 1523. Passed 7-11-11.)
(d) The Chief of Police shall be the commanding officer of the Auxiliary Police Unit and shall have control of the assignment, training, stationing, and the direction of work of such Unit. The Auxiliary Police Unit will have all police powers, but shall perform only such police duties as 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 such uniform or portion thereof shall be worn. Such Auxiliary members shall obey the chain of command of the Police Department and shall take orders from all regular appointed members thereof.
(e) The Manager shall prescribe the rules and regulations for the organization, administration, conduct and control of the Auxiliary Police Unit.
(f) The Manager is authorized to prescribe, by the rules and regulations, the type of uniform or part thereof which shall be worn by the members of the Auxiliary Police Unit.
(g) All services performed by Auxiliary policemen shall be on a voluntary basis and within the Municipality. Auxiliary policemen shall be paid one dollar ($1.00) annually, unless additional compensation is authorized by Council.
(h) This section is declared by Council as an exercise by the Municipality of its police powers for the protection of public peace, health, property, safety and general welfare, and neither the Municipality nor agent nor representative of the Municipality, an officer appointed under the provisions of this section, or any individual, firm, partnership, corporation or the receiver of trustees or any other agent thereof, who in good faith, executes any executive order, rules or regulation promulgated pursuant to the provisions of this section shall be liable for injury or damage sustained to person or property as the direct or proximate result of such action.
(Ord. 697. Passed 9-11-84.)