Title 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter 1.09 CITATION IN LIEU OF IMMEDIATE ARRAIGNMENT
1.09.030 Authority of designated city officers and employees to issue citations.
Pursuant to Penal Code Section 836.5, officers and employees of the city
who have the discretionary duty to enforce any statute or ordinance of the city
may, subject to the provisions of this section, arrest a person without a
warrant whenever any such officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe
that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor in the officer's or
employee's presence which he or she has the discretionary duty to enforce, and
to issue a notice to appear, and to release such person on his or her written
promise to appear in court, pursuant to Section 1.09.020, above. No officer or
employee shall be allowed by his or her superior to exercise the arrest and
citation authority herein conferred unless such officer or employee is in a
classification of city officers and employees designated by ordinance or
resolution of the city to exercise such arrest and citation authority. The city
manager shall establish and shall cause to be administered a special enforcement
training program designed to instruct applicable officers and employees who will
exercise such arrest and citation authority with respect to the statutes or
ordinances to be enforced, the manner and procedure for the enforcement of same,
the evidentiary prerequisites, and proper procedures to be followed in making
arrests, or otherwise prudently exercising such arrest and citation authority,
together with the legal and practical ramifications and limitations attendant
thereto. (Ord. 794-95 § 4 (part))
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