Ordinance No. 1,254r
ORDINANCE NO. 1254
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN,
TEXAS, BY THE AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 2, ADMINISTRATION, SO AS TO RE-
PEAL SECTION 2 -1, AUXILIARY POLICE DEPARTMENT, CREATED; SUBJECT TO
CHIEF OF POLICE, AS PRESENTLY CONSTITUTED AND TO SUBSTITUTE IN ITS
PLACE A NEW SECTION] 2 -1, POLICE RESERVE FORCE; REPEALING ORDINANCES
INCONSISTENT HEREWITH; CONTAINING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; AND PROVIDING
FOR THE EFFECTIVE DATE HEREOF.
WHEREAS, Section 2 -1 of the Code of Ordinances of the City of Baytown
created the Baytown Auxiliary Police Department; and
WHEREAS, such Auxiliary Police Department is not authorized by State
Statutes; and
WHEREAS, Article 998a of Vernon's Annotated Civil Statutes provides
for creation of a Police Reserve Force by the governing body of any city, town,
or village; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Baytown, Texas, deems it de-
sirable to have a Police Reserve Force; NOVI THEREFORE,
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAYTOWN, TEXAS:
Section 1: That an organization called the Police Reserve Force be
established within the City of Baytown, Texas.
Section 2: Membership within the Police Reserve Force shall be at
the discretion of the Chief of Police and shall be limited to twenty members.
Section 3: Members of the Police Reserve Force shall serve at the
discretion of the Chief of Police and may be called into service at any time
the Chief of Police considers it necessary to have additional officers to pre-
serve the peace and enforce the law.
Section 4: Reserve Police Officers shall act only in a supplementary
capacity to the regular police force and in no case assume the full time duties
of regular police officers without first complying with all requirements for such
regular police officers.
Section 5: Members of the Police Reserve Force shall conform with min-
imum training standards for all reserve law enforcement officers which have been
established by the Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education.
Section 6: No person appointed to the Police Reserve Force may carry a
weapon or otherwise act as a peace officer until he has been approved by the City
Council. After approval, he may carry a weapon only when authorized by the Chief
of Police, and when discharging official duties as a duly constituted peace officer.
Section 7: Repealing Clause: All ordinances or parts of ordinances
inconsistent with the terms of this ordinance are hereby repealed; provided,
however, that such repeal shall be only to the extent of such inconsistency
and in all other respects this ordinance shall be cumulative of other ordi-
nances regulating and governing the subject matter covered by this ordinance.
Section 8: Savings Clause: If any provision, section, exception,
subsection, paragraph, sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance or the
application of same to any person or set of circumstances, shall for any
reason be held unconstitutional, void or invalid, such invalidity shall not
affect the validity of the remaining provisions of this ordinance or their
application to other persons or sets of circumstances and to this end all
provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
Section 9: Effective Date: This ordinance shall take effect from
and after its passage by the City Council of the City of Baytown.
INTRODUCED, READ and PASSED by the affirmative vote of the City
Council of the City of Baytown, this the 18th day of July , 1972.
C. GLEN WALKER, Mayor
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ATTEST:
S
EDNA OLIVER, City Clerk
APPROVED:
J N PF N Ass tent G44Z o torney
Al
NEEL RICH RDSON, City Attorney