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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinances_1934_CCv0001.pdf ORDINANCE NO. 1934 AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING A PUBLIC EMPLOYEE TO ISSUE INFRACTION CITATIONS FOR VIOLATIONS OF ORDINANCE NO. 1000 OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS does ordain: SECTION 1 . Section 54 . 25 is hereby added to Ordinance No. 1000 of the City of Redlands, the Zoning Ordinance, and is to provide as follows : SECTION 54 . 25 : ENFORCEMENT. It shall be the duty of the Redlands Police Department and the City Services Representative of the Community Development Department to enforce the provisions of this Ordinance. SECTION 2 . Section 54 . 50 is hereby added to Ordinance No. 1000 of the City of Redlands Ordinance, the Zoning Ordinance, and is to provide as follows : SECTION 54. 50 : ISSUANCE OF CITATIONS BY DESIGNATED OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES. The City Services Representative of the Community Development Department who has the discretionary duty to enforce the provisions of Ordinance 1000 , is hereby authorized by the City Council, pursuant to Sections 832 , 835 . 5 and 19d of the California Penal Code and subject to the provisions thereof, to arrest a person without warrant whenever the City Services Representative has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has either violated a provision of Ordinance No. 1000 in the City Services Representative ' s presence or fails to correct a violation of Ordinance No. 1000 and therefore has committed an infraction which the City Services Repre- sentative has the discretionary duty to enforce . The City Services Representative is further authorized by the City Council to issue a NOTICE TO APPEAR and to release such person on his or her written promise to appear in court, pursuant to Sections 853 . 5 and 853 . 6 of the California Penal Code. Under no circumstances may the City Services Represen- tative take the person to be arrested into custody. In the event that the person to be arrested demands to be taken before the magistrate or refuses to provide his or her written promise to appear in court, the City Services Representative must either summon a Redlands Police officer , explain the situation, and request that the Redlands Police officer arrest the person, and take the person into custody, or seek the assistance of the City Attorney, and request that an infraction complaint be prepared and filed against that person. In addition to the mandatory course of training prescribed by the Commission of Peace Officers standards pursuant to Section 832 of the California Penal Code, the Chief of Redlands Police Department shall establish and cause to be administered a special enforcement training program designed to instruct the City Services Representative regarding provisions of this Ordinance to be enforced, the evidentiary prerequisites to proper prosecu- tion for violations thereof, the appropriate procedures for making arrests or otherwise prudently exercising such arrest and citation authority, and limitations attendant thereto. The City Services Representative shall be appropriately instructed to file executed citations within the Department of Community Development and such citations shall be filed with the Court . SECTION 3 . This Ordinance shall be in force and take effect as provided by law. SECTION 4 . The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause it or a summary of it to be published once in the Redlands Daily Facts, a -2- newspaper of general circulation printed and published in this City. Mayor of the City of Redlands ATTEST: 6LU W Ci y ,Clerk of City of Redlands '-/, - I , Lorrie Poyzer, City Clerk, City of Redlands , hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting thereof held on the 15th day of April, 1986 , by the following vote: AYES : Councilmembers Larsen, Johnson, Wormser; Mayor Beswick NOES: None ABSENT: Councilmember DeMirjyn City glerk _3_ MPD0072