Calexico Municipal Code Ch. 2.01 Citation Issuance Authority

A. Officers and employees of the city who have the discretionary duty to enforce a statute or ordinance may, pursuant to Section 836.5 of the California Penal Code and subject to the provisions hereof, arrest a person without a warrant whenever any such officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor in the officer's or employee's presence which he or she has the discretionary duty to enforce, and to issue a notice to appear and to release such person on his or her written promise to appear in court, pursuant to Section 1318 of the California Penal Code.

B. No officer or employee shall be allowed by his or her superior to exercise the arrest and citation authority conferred in this section unless such officer or employee is within a classification of city officers and employees designated by resolution of the city council to exercise such arrest and citation as to specified misdemeanor violations.

C. The city manager shall establish and cause to be administered a special enforcement training program designed to instruct each officer or employee who will exercise such arrest and citation authority, regarding the provisions of the statutes and ordinances to be enforced, the evidentiary prerequisites to proper prosecution for violations thereof, the appropriate procedures for making arrests or otherwise prudently exercising such arrest and citation authority, and the legal and practical ramifications and limitations attendant thereto. Any such officers or employees shall be appropriately instructed to deposit executed citations or notices within the municipal court of the state for filing with the court after being reviewed for legal sufficiency by the office of the city attorney.

(Ord. 888 § 1, 1987)