Ord. 0563 02-13-89ORDINANCE NO. 563
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LISH NG NANCE STANDARDS CREING FOR HE OFFICE OF QUALIFICATIONCI OF MARSHAL,
ITYY MARSHAL,
PROVIDING FOR SUPERVISION OF THE CITY MARSHAL; DEFINING AND
LIPAINN THE SCOPE A THE SAVINGS HAL'S CLAUSEUT AND TY; CONTAINING A
A SEVERABILITY
REPEEALING CLAUSE,
CLAUSE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PEARLAND:
SECTION 1. There is hereby created the office of City
Marshal of the City of Pearland, Texas.
SECTION 2. The pay classification and job description shall
be that which is adopted by City Council. The City Marshal shall
be under the direct supervision of the City Manager, who shall be
in charge of the City Marshal and shall oversee and supervise the
City Marshal in the execution of his duties. The City Marshal
shall serve and execute warrants of arrest, subpoenas and other
legal process issuing out of any Municipal Court of the City.
The City Marshal shall be the bailiff of the Municipal Court of
the City. The City Marshal shall also serve subpoenas or other
legal process issuing out of the Civil Service Commission, the
Council, any Board, Commission, or Department requiring legal
process for hearings, condemnation hearings, and none other. The
City Marshal shall additionally perform such other and further
duties as may be assigned by the City Manager.
SECTION 3. The City Marshal shall meet the qualifications
for certification as a peace officer as established by the Texas
Commission of Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education
pursuant to Article 4413(29aa) Texas Revised Civil Statutes
Annotated and shall seek and receive such Peace Officer certi-
fication within the time prescribed by Article 4413(29aa), Texas
Revised Civil Statutes Annotated, as a necessary condition for
continued employment as a City Marshal.
The City Marshal shall serve as a peace officer and have
full police authority in the exercise of his assigned duties.
SECTION 4. No City Marshal is a regular member of the
Police Department of the City within the meaning of the State
laws governing such department as to Civil Service, minimum
wages, hours of employment or pension. Neither shall any City
Marshal be a paid law enforcement officer for the purposes of and
within the meaning of Article 6228f of Texas Revised Civil
Statutes Annotated.
Nothing herein provided shall prevent or in anywise inhibit
any regular police officer of the City of Pearland from serving
or executing any process issuing out of
may be placed in his hands to be served
any Municipal Court which
or executed.
SECTION 5. The passage of this Ordinance shall not be
construed nor interpreted to confer any vested tenure or term of
office or employment upon any person or to impair the power of
the City to suspend, terminate or discharge any person or to
affect at any time a reduction in force or of payroll costs.
SECTION 6. All rights and remedies which have accrued in
favor of the City under this Chapter and amendments thereto shall
be and are preserved for the benefit of the City.
SECTION 7. All ordinances in force when this ordinance
becomes effective and which ordinances are inconsistent herewith
or in conflict with this ordinance are hereby repealed, insofar
as said ordinances are inconsistent or in conflict with this
ordinance.
SECTION 8. The City Council of the City of Pearland, Texas
does hereby declare that if any section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause, phrase, word or portion of this ordinance is
declared invalid, or unconstitutional, by a court of competent
jurisdiction, that, in such event it would have passed and
ordained any and all remaining portions of this ordinance without
the inclusion of that portion or portions which may be so found
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to be unconstitutional or invalid, and declares that its intent
is to make no portion of this ordinance
dependent upon the
validity of any other portion thereof, and that all said remain-
ing portions shall continue in full force and effect.
PASSED ON FIRST READING by the City Council of the City of
Pearland, Texas, in regular meeting in the City Hall this
023 day of (//� , A.D., 1989.
APPROVED this thee day of
A.D., 1989.
ATTEST:
KAY KROCJSE, SECRETARY
CITY OF PEARLAND
PASSED ON SECOND
the City of Pearland,
this the 13 day of
APPROVED this the
A.D., 1989.
ATTEST:
the
TOM REID, MAYOR
CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS
AND FINAL READING by the City Council of
Texas,n in regular meeting in the City Hall
`y , A.D., 1989.
43 day of uvc-e-14-14.-0-7.
KAY KRiUSE, SECRETARY
CITY OF PEARLAND
APPROVED:
ROBERT E. TALTON, ATTORNEY
CITY OF PEARLAND
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TOM REID, MAYOR
CITY OF PEARLAND, TEXAS
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