Ordinance Number 19332?
ORDINANCE NO. 193
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING A
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
The City Council of the City of San Juan Capistrano does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. A Department of Public Safety for the City of San
Juan Capistrano is hereby established.
SECTION 2. The Department of Public Safety shall consist of a
Director of Public Safety and subordinate officers and personnel as are
necessary to enforce the laws and keep the peace within the City of San
Juan Capistrano, i
SECTION 3. All subordinate officers shall report to the Director
each day as to events occurring while such officers are on duty, and
all other information pertaining to general regulations in the City
which come to their notice.
SECTION 4. The Director of Public Safety is responsible to and
operates with the general supervision of the City Manager. The Director
will administer the Department through such staff assistance as provided
by the City Council and City Manager and within general guidelines
established from time -to time by the City Manager. The Director of
Public Safety will organize his department into the minimum number of
sections necessary to identify and provide specialized functions in a
responsive and efficient manner. In all its operations the Department
of Public Safety will coordinate its programs, records and functions
with the needs and objectives of other City Departments and other public
agencies in such a way as to promote the best public interest.
SECTION 5. All officers shall, at all times, be subject to the
orders of the Director of Public Safety and shall be subject to call by
the Director of Public Safety at any time during the day or night.
SECTION 6. All advancements to the next higher classification
and salary increase shall be made according to the ordinances of the
City of San Juan Capistrano.
SECTION 7: The Director of Public Safety shall be appointed by
the City Manager with approval by the City Council.
SECTIONS. It shall be the duty of each and every member of the
Public Safety Department to enforce impartially all of the laws and
statutes of the United States and of the State of California, all ordi-
nances of the County of Orange and the City of San Juan Capistrano
within the limits=of this City and to perform such other duties as by
statute and ordinance now existing or hereafter enacted that may be
imposed upon them in their capacity as officers.
SECTION 9. Each and every member of the Public Safety Department
is hereby authorized to make arrests and detain prisoners in all cases
where a peace officer is so authorized under the laws of the State of
California.
SECTION 10. It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully make
to the Public Safety Department, or any officer in said department, any
false, misleading or unfounded report for the purpose of interfering
with the operation of said department or officer, or for the purpose of
inducing or causing to be issued a complaint or indictment against any
person, firm or corporation. If such report be so filed, it shall be
a misdemeanor punishable as set forth by the laws of the State of
California.
SECTION 11. The Director of Public Safety and deputy officers
shall have the same powers that are now or may hereafter be conferred by
the laws of this state, and shall be entitled to the same protection as
set forth by state laws.
SECTION 12. It shall be the duty of the Director of Public Safety _
and all deputy officers to help or assist in the prosecution and investi-
gation of all noncompliance with any ordinance or laws which shall come
to the attention of the Public Safety Department.
SECTION 13. Severability. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held to
be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance. The Council hereby declares that
it would have passed this ordinance and each section, subsection, sub-
division, sentence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences,
clauses, or phrases be declared unconstitutional.
SECTION 14. The City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano
shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and shall, before the
expiration of fifteen (15) days after the passage thereof, cause the
same to be published once, with the names of the members of the City
Council voting for and against the same in the Coastline Dispatch, a
newspaper of general circulation.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of April, 1972, by
the following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: WEATHERS, BYRNES, CHERMAK, GAMMELL
and THORPE
NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE
4.
mes Y. Thorpe, Ma.yor.! --`,
A��TTESS%�//�
City Clem City o
San Juan Capistrano
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, DONALD G. WEIDNER, City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano,
California, hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 193 is a true
and correct copy of an ordinance of the City Council of said City,
adopted by the City Council on the 241h day of April, 1972.
,61�
City Clerk