Santa Maria Municipal Code Ch. 2-21 Signing of Complaints

The City Manager, any department head or any City employee in whose department the initial enforcement of a law is located shall have authority to sign, and shall sign, such a necessary complaint in that connection as the prosecutor may direct in writing.

(Prior Code § 2-140; Ord. 83-1050 § 1, eff. 3/31/83)

Whenever such City Manager, department head or City employee signs such complaint by specific direction of the City Attorney, he does so as a representative of the City and not in his personal individual capacity. The City shall indemnify and save harmless the City Manager or department head or City employee of and from all damages, expenses, costs and charges against all loss and liability he sustains or in anywise is put to for or by reason of such action.

(Prior Code § 2-141; Ord. 83-1050 § 1, eff. 3/31/83)