Amending Chapter 20 Vehicles & Traffic

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SOUTH 8 . "(4 .I v.' �� d City of South Bend j7/.2:.j Joseph E. Kernan, Mayor kiN x\\- /86 South Bend Police Department Ronald G. Marciniak, Chief of Police April 17 , 1991 South Bend Common Council County-City Building South Bend, Indiana 46601 RE: ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING CIVIL DEFENSE OFFICERS TO ISSUE PARKING TICKETS Dear Council Persons: The passage of the attached ordinance is requested after long consideration by our Department. Civil Defense Officers who hold Special Police Commissions with the South Bend Police Department have been very helpful in the past in many duties, including directing traffic. Their efficiency and help- fulness would be further enhanced if they had the power to write parking tickets when they observe a violation of Chapter 20 in the Municipal Code. Currently they must call South Bend Police- men to write any parking tickets. It should be abundantly clear that this enhanced power would enable both the specially commissioned Civil Defense Officers to better perform their duty and the regular South Bend Police Officers to make more efficient use of their time. This amendment does not modify the recently passed amendments to Chapter 20. It is submitted separately so that it may stand on its own merit and that the issues that it address not be confused with those addressed by previous amendment. I thank you in advance for your serious consider- ation and ultimate passage of this Ordinance. Yours truly, '&.-410eItAr.,/10.4.41. 44 ;4' Ronald G. Marciniak Chief of Police RGM/k 701 W. Sample St. • South Bend, Indiana 46625 • 219/284-9311 Larry E. Bennett Donald A. Ruszkowski Joel H. Wolvos Uniform Division Chief Investigative Division Chief Services Division Chief 284-9315 284-9263 284-9314