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§ 34.053 EXECUTE WARRANTS.
   Every member of the Department shall have power, within the corporate limits of the city, to serve and execute warrants or other legal process for the apprehension and commitment of persons charged with or held, for the commission of any crime or misdemeanor, or the violation of any law or ordinance of the city; and while so serving or executing or assisting in the service of execution of any such warrant or legal process, he or she shall be vested with all the common law and statutory powers of police officers for such purposes.
(1975 Code, § 30.32)
§ 34.054 LEGAL PROCESSES.
   All police shall have power and authority to execute city warrants, or other like legal process, without the corporate limits of the city and within such distance therefrom as is authorized by law, in all cases when any ordinance of the City Council, made pursuant to law, shall prescribe a penalty for the violation of any of its provisions by persons residing, acting or doing business within the limits of the city.
(1975 Code, § 30.33)
§ 34.055 ASSISTING POLICE OFFICER.
   Every police officer of the city may, at any time, call upon any able-bodied male/female above the age of 18 years, to aid him or her in the arresting, retaking or holding in custody, of any person, guilty of having committed any, unlawful act or charged therewith, or to aid such officer in preventing the commission of any unlawful act.
(1975 Code, § 30.34)
§ 34.056 AIDING FIRE DEPARTMENT.
   Every police officer shall aid the Fire Department by giving the alarm in case of fire, and in clearing the streets or grounds in the immediate vicinity of any fire so that the firefighters shall not be hindered or obstructed in the performance of their duties.
(1975 Code, § 30.35)
§ 34.057 FAILURE TO PERFORM.
   Any member of the Police Department who shall neglect or refuse to perform any duty required of him or her by this code of the city or the rules and regulations of the Department, or who shall, in the discharge of his or her official duties, be guilty of any fraud, favoritism, extortion, oppressions or willful wrong or injustice, shall be subject to removal from office.
(1975 Code, § 30.36)
§ 34.058 AIDING IN ESCAPE.
   It shall be a misdemeanor for any person in this city to resist or obstruct any member of the police force in the discharge of his or her duty or to endeavor to do so, in any manner, assist any person in the custody of any member of the police force to escape or to attempt to escape from such custody or to attempt to rescue any such person in custody.
(1975 Code, § 30.38)
§ 34.059 USE OF INTOXICATING LIQUOR.
   No member on active tour of duty or while wearing the official police officer’s badge of the city shall indulge in the use of intoxicating liquor of any kind, and intoxication at any time shall be sufficient cause for removal.
(1975 Code, § 30.39) Penalty, see § 34.999
Statutory reference:
   Similar provisions, see 65 ILCS 5/11-1-1 through 5/11-1-7
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