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HomeMy WebLinkAboutAmending Chapter 20 Vehicles & Traffic ORDINANCE No. 8187-91 Passed by the Common Council of the City of South Bend, Indiana. May 20, 91 '9 / ""`"�°--—" Attest:. � �' City Clerk IRENE 1V GAMMON Attest: ) / i t President of Common Council Presented by me to the Mayor of the City of South Bend, Indiana— May 21, 91 19 City Clerk IRENE K. GAMMON Approved and signed by me `'iay 2 2 i9 91 p(7(1,1, Mayor ORDINANCE NO. - 9 BILL NO. a$-4 1 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED "VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC" STATEMENT OF PURPOSE AND INTENT The City of South Bend from time to time utilizes the services of specially commissioned Civil Defense Police Officers to perform various functions, including traffic control during emergencies and traffic control and security for special events. Although the language of Chapter 20 of the South Bend Municipal Parking Code, setting forth parking related regulations expressly authorizes that only the members of the South Bend Police Department and such entities with whom the City enters into a specific contract may enforce parking regulations, those Civil Defense Officers holding special police commissions during the course of their duties could more effectively perform their duties and benefit the entire community if they too were allowed to enforce the parking regulations set forth in Chapter 20. Consequently, the Common Council has determined that it is in the best interest of the City to amend Chapter 20 to give those Civil Defense Officers who, as part of their special police commission are authorized to enforce Chapter 20, the legal authority to enforce this chapter when on duty for the City of South Bend. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AS FOLLOWS: SECTION I . Section 20-3 (a) of the South Bend Municipal Code is amended to add a new subdivision, subdivision (n) (13 ) , which shall read as follows: Sec. 20-3. Authority of the Board of Public Works. (a) The Board of Public Works shall have authority; ( 13 ) To empower those holding special police commissions with the power to enforce the provisions of this chapter. SECTION II . Section 20-17 of the South Bend Municipal Code shall be amended to add a new division, division (e) , which shall read: Sec. 20-17. (e) In addition to those individuals and entities set forth elsewhere in this section, specially commissioned civil defense police officers of the South Bend Police Department shall have the power to enforce the provisions of this chapter, subject to the conditions set forth elsewhere in this section. SECTION III . This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage by the Council and .pp,.Val b e Mayor. nmher_ '_o• on Council 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 flinmmitrr arpnrt au the QJ nm = QIounril of tip (ring of*nutty limb: Your Committee of the Whole to whom was referred BILL NO. 28-91 SECOND READING ON A BILL OF THE COMMON COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SOUTH BEND, INDIANA, AMENDING CHAPTER 20 OF THE SOUTH BEND MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED "VEHICLES AND TRAFFIC". Respectfully report that they have examined the matter and that in their opinion This bill should be recommended to the Council favorable. Loretta Duda Chairman FREE PRESS aPieWN PUBLISHING CO.