[Adopted 7-3-1973 by Ord. No. 50]
[Amended 4-4-1989 by Ord. No. 109]
There is hereby adopted by the Board of Supervisors
of Limerick Township a code of conduct and disciplinary standards
for police officers, setting forth rules and regulations for the administration
of conduct and disciplinary procedures of police officers, creating
disciplinary standards and a standard table of punishment and establishing
departmental disciplinary procedures, hereinafter known as the "Limerick
Township Police Code of Conduct," of which not less than three copies
have been and now are filed in the office of the Township Secretary,
and the same is hereby adopted and incorporated as fully as if set
out at length herein, and, from the date on which this article shall
take effect, the provisions thereof shall be controlling in the conduct
and disciplinary procedures of all police officers of Limerick Township.
There is hereby established a code of conduct
for police officers, which shall consist of a manual of rules and
regulations containing definitions, command and supervisory responsibilities
and authority, rules and regulations for the conduct of all members,
departmental discipline procedures and a standards table of punishment.
Nothing in this article or in the code hereby
adopted shall be construed to affect any suit or proceeding now pending
in any court or any rights acquired or liability incurred nor any
cause or causes of action accrued or existing under any act or ordinance
repealed hereby, nor shall any right or remedy of any character be
lost, impaired or affected by this article.
