[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Canton 11-10-1975
by L.L. No. 5-1975 as Ch. 27 of the 1975 Code. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Police Department regulations — See Ch. A331.
The Village of Canton Police Department is organized in accordance with
§ 8-800 of the Village Law.
The police force of the Village of Canton shall consist of a Chief of
Police and as many other members as the Board of Trustees determines necessary
for the proper protection of the village.
The Board of Trustees shall fix the amount of the salary of each village
police officer.
The Chief of Police and each special policeman shall execute to the
village and file with the Village Clerk, before entering upon his duties,
an official undertaking in such sum and with such sureties as the Board of
Trustees shall direct and approve, together with the constitutional oath.
The Chief of Police or, in his absence or inability to serve, the Acting
Chief of Police shall be the head of the police force.
The authorities having control of volunteer fire departments and volunteer
fire companies may organize within such departments or companies fire police
squads composed of volunteer firemen who are members of such departments or
companies. Members of fire police squads, so organized, at such times as the
fire department, fire company or an emergency relief squad of the fire department
or fire company is on duty, shall have the powers of and render service as
peace officers.
