(A) The duties and powers of a police officer shall include the following:
(1) He or she shall devote his or her entire time to the performance of the duties of his or her office;
(2) He or she shall be a conservator of the peace;
(3) He or she shall have the power:
(a) To arrest or cause to be arrested, with or without process, all persons who break the peace or are found violating any municipal ordinance or any criminal law of the state;
(b) To commit arrested persons for examination;
(c) If necessary, to detain arrested persons in custody overnight or on Sunday in any safe place, or until they can be brought before the proper court;
(d) To exercise all other powers as a conservator of the peace prescribed by the city authorities;
(e) To direct traffic, remove abandoned vehicles from highways and enforce statutory provisions as to weight restrictions on vehicles.
(B) Each police officer may serve and execute within the limits of the city all warrants for the violation of city ordinances or the state criminal law, directed to any person, and for this purpose each police officer shall have all the common law and statutory powers of sheriffs.
(C) A police officer shall attend, when requested by the Mayor, all meetings of the City Council, execute all its orders and close the Council Chamber upon the adjournment of that body.
(D) Each police officer shall perform such other duties as may be authorized by city ordinance or state statute.
(1993 Code, § 30-2-6) (Am. Ord. 979, passed 11-20-1995; Am. Ord. 1116, passed 10-18-1999)