Borough of Fair Lawn, NJ
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2023-02-28
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Part I, Administrative Legislation
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Chapter 33 Police Department
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Article IV Duties
- Part I, Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 2 Administration, Departments and Budget and Fiscal Procedures
- Ch 4 Cable Television Board
- Ch 7 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 10 Ethics, Code of
- Ch 13 Fire Department
- Ch 16 Historian
- Ch 19 Housing Authority
- Ch 24 Length of Service Awards Program
- Ch 25 Volunteer Emergency Services Stipend Program
- Ch 30 Personnel
- Ch 33 Police Department
- Ch 33 Art IV Duties
- § 33-9 Chief of Police; powers and duties.
- § 33-10 (Reserved)
- § 33-11 Duty of police officers.
- Ch 39 Salaries and Compensation
- Ch 42 Tort Claim Form
- Part II, General Legislation
- Ch 49 Affordable Housing
- Ch 53 Alarms, Burglar, Medical and Fire
- Ch 56 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 59 Amusement Devices
- Ch 62 Animals
- Ch 66 Automobile Dealers
- Ch 70 Bicycles
- Ch 74 Broadway Special Improvement District
- Ch 76 Business Hours
- Ch 85 Construction Codes, Uniform
- Ch 86 Crane Regulations
- Ch 87 Distribution of Handbills, Circulars and Other Printed Materials
- Ch 90 Drive-Through Restaurants
- Ch 94 Fees
- Ch 97 Fences
- Ch 101 Fire Insurance Claims
- Ch 104 Fire Prevention
- Ch 108 Flood Damage Prevention
- Ch 111 Food Handling
- Ch 117 Heating
- Ch 120 Historical Properties
- Ch 124 Junkyards
- Ch 125 Land Development
- Ch 128 Laundries and Dry Cleaners
- Ch 129 Lawn Fertilizing
- Ch 131 Lead-Based Paint
- Ch 134 Library
- Ch 137 Licensing
- Ch 140 Littering
- Ch 144 Massage, Bodywork, and Somatic Therapy Establishments
- Ch 147 Motorized Scooters
- Ch 148 Murals
- Ch 150 Noise
- Ch 153 Numbering of Buildings
- Ch 157 Parking on Posted Property
- Ch 160 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 162 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 163 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 166 Pesticides
- Ch 167 Planting or Growing Bamboo
- Ch 170 Property Maintenance
- Ch 173 Public Health Nuisances
- Ch 177 Rent Control
- Ch 180 River Road Special Improvement District
- Ch 183 Sales
- Ch 184 School Buses
- Ch 186 Secondhand Precious Metals and Gems
- Ch 189 Sewers
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 192 Sidewalk Sales
- Ch 200 Soil Removal
- Ch 204 Solid Waste
- Ch 205 Special Events
- Ch 208 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 213 Tattooing and Body Piercing Parlors
- Ch 215 Taxation
- Ch 216 Taxicabs and Limousines
- Ch 220 Tobacco
- Ch 223 Towing
- Ch 226 Trees
- Ch 230 Vehicles, Abandoned
- Ch 232 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 236 Vehicles, Impoundment of
- Ch 241 Water
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Amended 5-27-2014 by Ord. No. 2317-2014]
The Borough Manager, who is designated as the appropriate authority
in accordance with N.J.S.A. 40A:14-118, shall appoint a Chief of Police
who shall have all of the powers set forth in N.J.S.A. 40A:14-118
and who shall be directly responsible to the Borough Manager for the
efficiency and routine day-to-day operations of the Police Department.
The Chief of Police shall, pursuant to policies established by the
Borough Manager:
A.
Administer
and enforce rules and regulations and special emergency directives
for the disposition and discipline of the force and its officers and
personnel.
B.
Have, exercise
and discharge the functions, powers and duties of the force.
C.
Prescribe
the duties and assignments of all subordinates and other personnel.
D.
Delegate
authority as the Chief may deem necessary for the efficient operation
of the force to be exercised under the Chief’s direction and
supervision.
E.
Report at
least monthly to the Borough Manager, in such form as shall be prescribed
by the Borough, on the operation of the force during the preceding
month, and make such other reports as may be requested by the Borough
Manager.
[1]
Editor's Note: Former § 33-10, Chief
of Police uniform, as amended 3-12-1996 by Ord. No. 1622-96, was repealed
12-19-2000 by Ord. No. 1834-2000.
It shall be the duty of every officer and member
of the police force to observe and enforce all state and federal laws,
all Borough ordinances and rules and regulations pertaining to his/her
duty as a police officer. He/she is authorized and empowered, and
it shall be his/her duty, to do and perform all acts and things required
by general law and ordinances of the Borough and the rules and regulations
of the Police Department.
