80-12-Ordinance-Establishing a Police Reserve Force-10/20/1980ORDINANCE NO. 80-12
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BANGER, TEXAS,
ESTABLISHING A POLICE RESERVE FORCE, PRO-
VIDING FOR ITS MEMBERSHIP, ORGANIZATION,
DUTIES AND PENALTIES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BANGER, TEXAS:
SECTION 1. An auxiliary force to be known as the Police
Reserve is hereby established, such force to be separate and
distinct from the police department.
SECTION 2. The purpose of this chapter is to provide a
trained group of civilian volunteer personnel which will be
available to supplement the regular police force of the City
of Sanger directed by the Chief of Police; to be available
in periods of emergency declared by the Chief of Police when
the regular police is not sufficient in number to control
such emergency, and to assume and carry out the responsibilities
of the city.
SECTION 3. The Chief of Police shall be the head of the
police reserve and the members of the reserve shall be under the
authority, control and command of the Chief of Police, subject
to all of the statutes, ordinances of the city and provisions
of this article.
SECTION 4. The City Council shall establish qualifications
and standards of training for members of the police reserve force
and may prescribe an oath of office for members of the reserve.
SECTION 5.
(A.) The police reserve force shall be composed of
personnel who have volunteered to join the organization and whose
applications for memberships have been accepted and who have
complied with all the rules, regulations and orders for the
conduct and control of the members thereof. It shall be composed
of not more than six (6) members.
(B.) All applicants for membership shall be finger-
printed and the Chief of Police shall fully investigate and be
responsible for satisfactory proof of the good character, sober
habits and adequate physical ability of each applicant.
SECTION 6. Application for membership in the police reserve
shall be filed with the Police Department. Such application
shall be on a form prescribed by the Chief of Police and
approved by I Council, and shall state the residence of
the applicant.
SECTION 7. The Chief of Police shall prescribe the uniforms
and badges for the members of the police reserve force and direct
the manner in which the same shall be worn. The Chief of Police
may issue identification cards and police reserve badges which
shall be returned upon termination of membership in the police
reserve.
SECTION 8. Reserve Police Officers must comply with the
minimum training standards established by the Texas Commission
on Law Enforcement Officer Standards, as now in effect and as
shall be amended from time to time, and education minimum
standards established for all reserve law enforcement officers
identical to the standards so established which must be fulfilled
before a person appointed as a reserve law enforcement officer
may carry a weapon or otherwise act as a peace officer.
SECTION 9. 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 governing body. 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 10. Members of the police reserve force shall have
no power to arrest beyond that of a citizen except when on
official authorized duty to assist the regular police department.
SECTION 11. No member of the police reserve force shall
break into or otherwise forcefully enter upon private property
or enter the dwelling or habitation of another person without
the consent of a member of the police department, who then and
there requests his aid in the enforcement of the law.
SECTION 12. Reserve police officers shall act only in a
supplementary capacity to the regular police force and shall in
no case assume the full time duties of regular police officers
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without first complying with all requirements for such regular
police officers.
SECTION 13.
(A.} Membership of any person in the police reserve
may be terminated by the Chief of Police at any time for any
cause deemed sufficient by the Chief of Police, and any member
may resign from the police reserve at any time, but it shall be
his duty to notify the Chief of his resignation.
(B.} In addition to the penalties provided by law,
any violation of law under color of the performance of his duties
as a member of the police reserve force, and any breach of rules
and regulations established by the Chief of Police shall subject
any member to summary expulsion and the fact thereof may be
published at the order of the Police Chief with the approval of
the City Council.
SECTION 14. All commissions for membership in the reserve
shall expire automatically at midnight on the 31st day of December
of each year. A renewal of such commission for any next ensuing
year may be had by filing an application. The application shall
consist of a letter properly filled out by the applicant, giving
his full name and address and the number of his existing commission.
Said application to be filed with the Chief of Police. If appli-
cation for renewal is not presented on or before January 31st of
each year for which renewal is sought, then anyone desiring a
commission as a member of the police reserve shall make application
as in the first instance where an applicant did not hold a
commission.
SECTION 15. No person shall represent or identify himself
as a member of the Sanger Police Reserve Force unless such person
is, in fact, a sworn member of the Sanger Police Reserve Force
aId has complied with all sections of this ordinance. Any person
violating the provisions of this ordinance, shall be guilty of
a misdemeanor, and upon conviction in Municipal Court, shall be
subject to a fine not less than $1.00 nor more than $200.00 for
each offense.
SECTION 10. This action does not limit the power of the
Mayor to summon into service a special police force as provided
by Article #995 of The Revised Civil Statutes of Texas.
SECTION 17. If any portion of the chapter be in conflict
with any part or portion of Article 998a, Revised Civil Statutes
of Texas as amended, or any other laws of this State, the terms
and provisions of those laws will govern.
SECTION 18. THIS ORDINANCE IS DECLARED TO BE FOR THE
GENERAL WELFARE.
PASSED AND APPROVED by THE CITY COUNCIL of THE CI 'Y OF BANGER,
TEXAS, ON THIS THE /j d , day of yL , 19800
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Mayor - City of Sanger, Texas
ATTEST:
City Secretary