[Adopted 3-25-1968 by Ord. No. 20-1968 as Ch. 2 of the 1968 Code (Ch.
5, Art. XXVI, of the 1980 City Code); amended in its entirety at time
of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I) ]
The Police Chief of the City shall appoint as many school traffic
guards as he shall deem necessary in the City.
It shall be the duty of school traffic guards to regulate and
control pedestrian traffic, particularly schoolchildren, at street
school crossings, and to regulate vehicular traffic to the extent
that it is necessary to provide intervals for such pedestrian crossing.
The traffic guards shall be employed on regular school days and during
their training period and, unless otherwise ordered by the Chief of
Police, shall perform such duties during the following hours.
To be eligible for appointment as a school traffic guard, an
applicant must not be less than 21 years of age, must be a citizen
of the United States, a resident of the City, of good moral character,
able to read and write the English language understandably. Such school
traffic guards shall be in good health, sound in body and mind and
certified to by the Police Surgeon as being physically capable of
performing the duties required.[1]
The Chief of Police shall supply to each applicant for school
traffic guard a blank application form, which shall be filled out
by each applicant and forwarded to the Chief, and if it shall appear
from such completed application that the applicant qualifies as to
age, citizenship and residence, the Chief of Police shall notify such
qualified applicant to report to the Police Surgeon for a physical
examination. The Chief of Police then shall interview such qualified
applicant as to character, education and home responsibilities and
render a report to the Chief of Police.
It shall be the duty of the Police Surgeon to examine the mental
and physical fitness of each applicant for the position of school
traffic guard instructed by the Chief of Police to report to him and
to submit a report to the Chief of Police.
A.
The City shall purchase uniforms for the school traffic
guards to be employed. A condition of employment shall be that each
school traffic guard shall agree to purchase a uniform from the City
at cost thereof and to pay therefor by semimonthly deductions of $5,
to be made by the City Finance Director, from the wages due, until
such time as the uniform shall be fully paid for and at which time
it shall become the property of the school traffic guard. Until fully
paid for, such uniform shall remain the property of the Police Department.
B.
Should any school traffic guard be dismissed or resign
at any time before the uniform has been fully paid for, the sums deducted
for the cost of the uniform shall remain the property of the City,
and the school traffic guard shall forthwith return the uniform to
the Police Department.
C.
In addition to wages as fixed by the City, annually,
on or about September 15, each school traffic guard who shall have
completed at least one full year of service prior thereto may receive,
upon approval of the Chief, an allowance for uniforms to be determined
by the City.
Subject to rules to be adopted by the Police Department, a regularly
employed school traffic guard may be granted sick leave with pay not
in excess of five working days in any year, provided that, if such
leave is not taken in any year, such leave shall not be accumulated
and used in any subsequent year.
