Chapter 9.04 — POLICE ADMINISTRATION

• A. Certain public officers or City employees may arrest a person without a warrant whenever they have reasonable cause to believe that the person to be arrested has committed a misdemeanor in their presence which is a violation of a statute or ordinance which such officer or City employee has the duty to enforce. Such public officers or City employees who are authorized pursuant to this section to make such arrests as set forth in this section, in addition to those employees who have previously been so authorized by other ordinances or State laws, are as follows:

  1. The Health Officer.

  2. The Director of Environmental Health.

  3. The Chief Deputy Director of Environmental Health.

  4. The Deputy Director of Environmental Health.

  5. The Fire Chief.

  6. The Assistant Fire Chief.

  7. The Fire Marshal.

• B. The arrest procedure and the limitation on civil liability contained in Section 836.5 of the Penal Code of the State of California are hereby adopted as the arrest procedure and limitation on civil liability for such public officers or City employees of the City of Vernon.

• (Prior code § 16.30)

Those certain detention facilities in the City Hall located at 4305 Santa Fe Avenue in the City, which have since on or about the fourth day of August, 1925 been located in the Police Department, including the cell blocks, appurtenances and fixtures therein contained, shall be and the same are hereby designated and established as the City Jail. (Prior code § 16.31)

ways.

• A. Persons in the care of the Police Department, as prisoners or otherwise, shall be provided with sufficient plain and wholesome food of such variety as may be most conducive to good health, in such amount and at such times as the general welfare of such persons will be best served.

• B. Persons confined in the City Jail under a final judgment of imprisonment rendered in a criminal action or proceeding and persons confined in the City Jail as a condition of probation after a suspension of imposition of a sentence or suspension of execution of sentence shall perform labor on the public works or ways in the City, as directed by the

Chief of Police. The term "labor on the public works" includes, without limitation, clerical and menial labor in and about the City Jail.

(Prior code § 16.32)