(a) There is hereby created within the Department of Public Safety of the City, a Parking Enforcement Unit within the Police Department of the City with members appointed by the Director of Public Safety.
(b) The Parking Enforcement Officers shall serve as long as the Director of Public Safety may direct or until their resignation submitted by such officer shall be accepted by the Director of Public Safety.
(c) The Director of Public Safety shall be the executive head of the Parking Enforcement Unit, and shall make all appointments and removals of Parking Enforcement Officers, subject to any general rules prescribed by the Legislative Authority by ordinance, and shall provide for the rules for the organization, training, administration, control and conduct of the Parking Enforcement Unit.
(d) The Police Chief shall be the commander of the Parking Enforcement Unit.
(e) The authority of the Parking Enforcement Officers shall be limited to the enforcement of ordinances governing parking in handicap parking locations and fire lanes and other parking ordinances specified in these Codified Ordinances.
(f) Parking Enforcement Officers shall have no other powers.
(g) The training that the Parking Enforcement Officers shall receive shall include instruction in general administrative rules and procedures governing the Parking Enforcement Unit, the role of the judicial system as it relates to parking regulation and enforcement, proper techniques and methods relating to the enforcement of parking ordinances, human interaction skills, and first aid.
(h) The Director of Public Safety is authorized to prescribe the type of uniform or part thereof to be worn by the Parking Enforcement Officers.
(i) The Director of Public Safety is hereby authorized and directed to promulgate such executive orders, rules and regulations as, in his discretion, are either necessary or desirable in the administration of such Parking Enforcement Unit.
(Ord. 97-88. Passed 5-12-97.)