1876 ORD PROVIDING FOR REGULATION OF SPECIAL POLICE WITHIN COP

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SECTION 11: BOND: (A) Required. No license shall be is sued hereunder unless the appli cant files with the City a surety bond executed by such applicant with two (2) or more sufficient sureties, o r by a surety company authorized to do business in the State of Texas, in the sum of twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00), or such other financial security as may be approved by the City Attorney of the City, conditioned upon the careful, faithful and honest conduct of the services to be performed by the qplicant, or his or its employees, and such bond shall be approved by the City Attorney of the City as to form, exe- cution and sufficiency of sureties. (B) PraLaction to Public. The bond or approved surety required herein shall be taken in the name of the people of the State of Texas; and every person injured by the negligence, wilfi:l, malicious or wrongful act of the principal, his agent, servant, or employee, in the business of special police officer, may bring an action on the bond in his own name to recover damages for such negligent, wilful, malicious or wrongful act. (C) Suspension of L.icense on Failure of Security, The Chief of Police shall suspend any license when the bond or other approved financial se- curity required herein shall have lapsed or is reduced by reason of a judgment thereon, or for any other reason is no longer in full force and effect. SECTION 12: PROMUI.GATION OF REGULATIONS BY CHIEF OF POLICE: The Chief of Police shall have the authority to enact and enforce reasonable rules and regulations for the operation of special po- lice officers in the City in the interest of public safety, morals and welfare and to effectuate the general purpose of this Ordinance. Licensees hereunder shall not be peace officers as such term is defined by Vernon's Annotated Code of Criminal Procedure, Art, 2.12, but shall enjoy and exercise all rights and duties regarding arrest as do pxivate citizens. SECTION 13: DUTIES OF L:CCENSEE: (A) Carry and Post License Certificates. The licensee hereunder shall cause a certificate of such license to be displayed at all times in a conspicuous place in or on his place of business described in such license. The licensee shall carry on his person at all times when performing services as a special police officer a certificate of the license issued hereunder. (B) Impersonation of State Police Officers. No special police officer licensed hereunder shall impersonate or hold himself out as a peace officer of this State or of its political subdivisions. (C) Additional Duties. It shall be the duty of all li- censees hereunder to: (1) Report daily in writing, to the Chief of Police all arrests made by their employees. (2) Obey the orders of the Chief of Police in an emergency.