Ordinance - 1873ORDINANCE NO. 1873
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF WEST COVINA ADDING § 15-4 TO THE
WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE REGARDING
UNIFORMS FOR PRIVATE SECURITY PERSONNEL
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
• as follows:
Section 1. Findings:
The City Council finds that the police department has
experienced increasing problems with private security guards
(including employees providing such services on the
employer's premises) being mistaken for West Covina police
officers because they are wearing similar uniforms and
emblems (dark blue with black jackets and batons).
Section 2.
Section 15-4 is added to the West Covina Municipal Code
to read as follows:
Section 15-4. Private Security Uniforms
No person, other than a sworn police officer (or
otherwise authorized to do so by an appropriate public
entity) currently employed by the West Covina Police
Department, shall wear or cause to be worn any uniform
or emblem or semblance of a uniform or emblem of a
color, pattern, design, type or combination thereof
which is not immediately distinguishable from that
adopted or hereafter adopted by the City of West Covina
for regular members of the department, nor shall any
person wear or cause to be worn any star, badge, shield
or insignia of a color, pattern, design, type or
combination thereof which could be mistaken for or
confused with the official regular police officers badge
of West Covina Police Department.
Section 3. Effective Date.
This ordinance shall be effective 30 days from the date
of its adoption. Any person subject to this ordinance shall
have 30 days from the date on which it becomes effective to
bring any uniform or emblem into compliance.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 11 day of
March 1991.
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1873
was duly adopted by the City Council of the City of West
Covina, California, at a regular meeting thereof held on the
11 day of March , 1 991 , by the following vote of the
Council:
AYES: Council.me�aber:
NOES: Councilmember:
ABSENT: Councilmember:
0 APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Herfert, Jennings, McFadden, Tdrozzi
None
Manners
Cit Attorney Elizabeth Hanna
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City —Clerk Janet Ber y
Mayor
CERTIFICATION
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of West Covina, State
of California, do hereby certify that a true and accurate copy of
Ordinance No. / F73 was published, pursuant to law, in the San
Gabriel Valley Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation
published and circulated in the City of West Covina.
r
ane Berry, City Clerk
City of West Covina, California
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