[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Jamestown 3-26-1962
as §§ 2.4 and 2.5 of Art. I of the 1962 Code. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
The Chief of Police shall have authority, between the hours of 7:00
p.m. and 6:00 a.m., during such time or upon such occasions as the necessities
of the public welfare warrant or demand, to designate, swear in and employ
upon his own initiative special policemen.
The Chief of Police shall have the authority to make regulations for
the control of the police force and for the management and control of the
City jail and police headquarters. Extension of such authority to the Chief
of Police shall in no sense divest the Mayor of the City of the power to order
or direct or of the right of the City Council to order or direct the Chief
of Police and his force to do or perform acts or services other or contrary
to such regulations provided by the Chief of Police as the public interest
may demand or warrant.
