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Ordinance to Create Subsection 10.03(1)(a) of the City of West Allis Revised Municipal Code Regarding Traffic Officers and Citation Authority for Community Service Officers and Parking Control Officers.
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The Common Council of the City of West Allis do ordain as follows:
PART I. Subsection 10.03(1)(a) of the Revised Municipal Code is hereby created to read as follows:
Section 10.03 AUTHORITY OF POLICE.
(1) To Direct Traffic; Fire and Emergency. The Police Department of the City shall enforce the provisions of this Chapter. Officers of the Department and traffic officers may direct all traffic either in person or by means of visible or audible signals in conformity with the provisions of this Chapter. In the event of a fire or other emergency, or to expedite traffic or safeguard pedestrians, police and traffic officers may direct traffic as conditions may require, notwithstanding the provisions of this Chapter.
(a) For the purposes of directing vehicular and pedestrian traffic on public or private property or in the right-of-way areas of the City, firefighters, and community service officers, as duly appointed by the Police Chief, are hereby designated as “traffic officers” within the meaning of Wis. Stats. Secs. 340.01(70) and 346.04 and are hereby authorized to direct or regulate vehicular and pedestrian traffic pursuant to Subsection 10.03(1) of this Municipal Code.
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PART II. Subsection 17.10 of the Revised Municipal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
Section 17.10 CITATION AUTHORITY.
The Director of the Department of Building Inspection and Neighborhood Services, the Health Commissioner, the Director of Public Works, and the Director of Development, or their designees, shall have the authority, pursuant to Section 66.0113(2), Wis. Stat., to issue citations for violations of this Municipal Code. Such authority to issue citations is limited to the code or codes that such respective department is charged with enforcing. In addition, all sworn law enforcement officers of the West Allis Police Department are authorized to issue a citation for any violation of this Code. Community service officers, as designated by the West Allis Police Chief, have the authority to issue citations, pursuant to Wis. Stat. Section 66.0113(2), for any violation of Chapters 6, 7, 9, 10, or 11 of this Municipal Code. Parking control officers, as designated by the West Allis Police Chief, have the authority to issue citations, pursuant to Wis. Stat. Section 66.0113(2), for any violation related to parking, stopping, or standing of vehicular traffic contained within this Municipal Code or state statute related to parking, stopping, or standing of vehicular traffic and adopted by this Municipal Code.
PART III. All ordinances or parts of ordinances contravening the provisions of this ordinance are hereby amended.
PART IV. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and publication.
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