(A) Members of the Police Reserve Unit shall only be assigned to aid or direct traffic within the municipality, to aid in control of natural or human-made disasters, or to aid in case of civil disorder as directed by the Chief of Police; and in cases which render it impractical for members of the regular Police Department to perform the normal and regular police duties, the Chief of Police of the regular Police Department is hereby authorized to assign Police Reserve police officers to perform such normal and regular police duties, in which instance such Police Reserve police officers shall have all the powers and authority and shall be subject to all the duties of members of the regularly constituted Police Department.
(B) Members of the Police Reserve Unit shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing the Police Department; however, membership in the Police Reserve Unit shall not constitute membership in the regularly constituted Police Department nor shall any member of the Police Reserve Unit be entitled to any right or privilege of compensation, pension, or any other similar right or privilege of members of the regularly constituted Police Department nor to any other prerequisite or emolument attaching to membership in said regularly constituted Police Department.
(C) Members of the Police Reserve Unit shall not carry firearms, except with the permission of the Chief of Police, and while in uniform and in the performance of their duties.
(D) Such Police Reserve when on duty shall also be conservators of the peace and shall have the powers as specified by the statutes of the state. The Chief of Police is authorized to grant authorization to one or more members of the Police Reserve Unit to display an amber oscillating, rotating, or flashing light under such circumstances and conditions as the Chief of Police may provide in accordance with § 12-215 of the Motor Vehicle Code of the state, being 625 ILCS 5/12-215.
(Prior Code, § 34.42) (Ord. 74-18, passed 10-7-1974)