Los Angeles Municipal Code § 52.28 Police Uniforms – Limitation of

(Amended by Ord. No. 164,340, Eff. 2/20/89.)

No person, other than a sworn police officer, shall wear any shoulder emblem or any uniform of a pattern, or design, or in the semblance of the uniform, adopted, or hereafter adopted, by the Board for the use of the regular members of the police department, or wear upon any uniform any star, badge, or insignia of a pattern or design that may be mistaken for, or confused with, the official police officer’s badge.

Notwithstanding the foregoing paragraph of this section, any retired Los Angeles Police officer authorized by the Chief of Police and actively employed to perform traffic control and crowd control pursuant to the provisions of Section 80.03.1 at the site of the filming of any motion picture or television production, may wear the uniform of the Los Angeles Police Department with the retirees retired officer’s badge affixed thereto.

The Board shall have the power and authority to adopt and prescribe, by resolution, the uniform to be worn by all special officers, bank guards, and funeral escorts, if any uniform is worn, while performing the duties of a special police officer. The uniform so prescribed for any such class of special officer may, but need not be the same as the uniform so prescribed for the other such class, or classes of special officers.