(a) Commissioning Private Police. The Mayor is authorized and empowered to commission such private police for duty upon private premises throughout the City, as shall be deemed necessary in accordance with Ohio R.C. 737.05.
(b) Qualifications. Private police shall be of good repute, physically fit and have such knowledge equal to a four-year high school degree.
(Ord. 57-75. Passed 1-6-1958.)
(c) Application. Private police shall make application to the Chief of Police and give such information regarding their character, physical fitness, knowledge, ability and employment to the extent that such information appertains to the granting of a private police commission and as required by the Chief of Police, together with proof on the part of the applicant of his or her capacity to provide bond as required in subsection (d) hereof, following which the Chief of Police shall approve and certify such applicants to the Mayor for the granting of a private police commission.
(d) Firearms; Bond. Private police may carry firearms of a type approved by the Chief of Police, providing that they shall first, at their own expense, give bond in the amount of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) to this City and the State, approved by the Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, conditioned to save the public harmless by reason of any unlawful use of such weapons carried by them, as required by Ohio R.C. 2923.12.
(Ord. 81-68. Passed 11-16-1981; Ord. 92-05. Passed 10-19-1992.)
(e) Badges; Uniforms. Private police are authorized to wear such badges and uniforms denoting their authority as the Mayor approves.
(f) Private Police Not City Employees. Private police shall not be employees of the City, nor receive any compensation or allowance from the City. Neither shall they be in the classified service of this City nor in the classified list of the Division of Police. However, nothing in this section shall prohibit or preclude regular members of the Division of Police from acting in the capacity as private police officers during their off-duty hours.
(g) Authority. Private police shall have such authority as may be granted private police and watchpersons by the general laws of the State and the ordinances of the City.
(1982 Code, § 139.10) (Ord. 57-75. Passed 1-6-1958. )