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Township of Willistown, PA
Chester County
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[Adopted 4-14-1970]
Whenever any private function or event is proposed within the Township of Willistown, Chester County, Pennsylvania, including but not limited to the operation of stores and markets, athletic or sporting events or social functions, but excluding gatherings for religious worship, at which it is anticipated there will be assembled large numbers of persons or concentrations of vehicular traffic and for which request is made to the Township for extraordinary police services over and above the then currently scheduled tours of duty of said Township's Department of Police, the Chief of Police or, in his absence, the Acting Chief of Police may, upon payment to the Township of the amounts and in the manner hereinafter specified, supply such number of police as have been requested and are available and as, in his judgment, are required to supervise and police said functions.
[Amended 6-10-1986 by Ord. No. 5-1986]
There shall be paid to the Township Treasurer for the extra police service provided hereunder compensation at the hourly rate prescribed annually by the Board of Supervisors. At the close of the function or event, the actual time worked shall be calculated and payments made to the Township within five days upon receipt of invoice.
A. 
The Chief of Police shall keep and furnish promptly to the Board of Supervisors an accurate record of the hours worked by all officers, pursuant to this article, and extra compensation shall be paid to each such officer, at the rates fixed hereinabove, for all time worked pursuant to this article beyond his regularly scheduled tour of duty (including overtime worked in performance of regular Township police duties as requested by the Chief of Police) less the same deductions made from his usual compensation at appropriate rates.
B. 
The Board of Supervisors may forbid or limit the furnishing of such service if, in its opinion after consultation with the Chief of Police, the normal or necessary functions of the Police Department are being, or are likely to be, adversely affected.