6.20.1 The Chief of Police and policemen shall have all the powers, duties and authority in criminal cases possessed by peace officers under the general laws of the state, and shall have the same power, duties and authority as peace officers in civil cases and proceedings so far as serving and executing all processes or papers in behalf of the city.
6.20.2 The Mayor, Councilmen, the Chief of Police and policemen shall also have power and authority, respectively, to arrest any person or persons found by them violating any of the penal ordinances or laws of the city, and to take such person or persons before a City Judge; and on a complaint being filed, they shall be dealt with the same as if such person or persons had been arrested upon warrant theretofore duly issued by a City Judge. It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police and policemen, respectively, to enforce any and all of the penal ordinances and laws of the city.
The Chief of Police shall have the power and it shall be his duty to enforce all rules and regulations of the Board relating to the Police Department; and to perform such other duties as may be prescribed by law, regulations of the Board, or ordinance of the Common Council. He shall submit to the Board a written report on the state of the department by the last day of January in each year. This report shall include such information as the Board may prescribe, and such other information as he may deem proper. He shall also have the power and discretion to suspend from duty for not more than 15 days any member of the Police Department, and shall report the same in writing with his reason therefor to the board for its action.
6.24.1 A disorderly person under any of the provisions of this charter is subject to arrest without process. A member of the Police Department or a peace officer may arrest a disorderly person without process. An officer making an arrest under this section shall immediately take the person arrested before the City Judge having jurisdiction, if such magistrate can be found; if not, he may detain the person arrested until such magistrate be found, not exceeding 24 hours.
6.24.2 Unless the violation complained of is also a crime subject to indictment, the City Judge shall proceed forthwith to hear, try and determine such complaint, or may adjourn the hearing not to exceed five days, unless the defendant consents to a longer time, and in the meantime commit the offender to the city jail or county jail until such day, or suffer him to go at large on executing a bond for his appearance on the adjourned day.
6.24.3 On conviction, the City Judge shall impose the penalty prescribed by the ordinance, and may also require the defendant to pay the cost of the proceeding. Unless the penalty and costs, if imposed, be paid upon the conviction, the magistrate shall commit the defendant to the county jail for a term not exceeding one day for each dollar of the penalty imposed. If the violation of an ordinance constitutes disorderly conduct and also renders a person violating such ordinances liable to penalty in civil action, the conviction of disorderly conduct on account of such conduct shall be a bar to the recovery of the penalty in the civil action, and the recovery of the judgment for a penalty of a civil action shall be a bar in the prosecution for disorderly conduct.
6.26.1 No member of the police force or any special policeman shall receive any present or reward for any service rendered, or to be rendered, unless with the consent of the Board, such consent to be given in writing and filed with the City Clerk. Any one of their number who shall receive any fee or reward in violation of this section shall be reprimanded, fined, suspended or dismissed by the Board.
6.26.2 No member shall be entitled to receive for his own use any fees for the services performed by him in cases of criminal nature, arising under the provisions of this act or for violations thereof; but each one shall be paid his actual disbursements in taking criminals to any place to which they shall be sentenced, and his actual traveling expenses in making arrests on warrants when he shall have traveled more than a mile outside of the city limits to perform the service.
6.26.3 Each officer shall make a daily report to the Chief of Police of all criminal business done by him, which by law is a charge upon the County of Warren. The Chief shall keep a record of all such reports, and shall, on the first day of November in each year, make a detailed statement of such services rendered during the year, which statement shall be delivered to the City Clerk, who shall present the same to the Board of Supervisors for payment. All orders or warrants for the payment of such claims shall be made payable to the City Treasurer. The actual traveling expenses allowed by this section shall be audited and paid as other charges against the Board.
6.26.4 In cases arising under the local laws, ordinances or police laws or regulations of the city, where judgments are in favor of the city or where the city would be entitled to judgment, such fees as are allowed by law for the services of policemen shall be included in such judgment.
6.26.5 The Board, upon the recommendation of the Common Council, may offer rewards for the detection or apprehension of the perpetrator of any crime committed within the city, to be paid to the informant on the conviction of the criminal.
6.26.6 Resolving petty cash fund. [Added 2-29-1968 by Local Law No. 1-1968]
A petty cash fund in the sum of $200 is herewith established and shall be available in advance to members of the Police Department in such amount as may be authorized by the Chief of the Department for travel expenses and expenses involving the transportation of prisoners, and for expenses incurred or to be incurred in investigating and obtaining information concerning alleged crimes, subject, however, to the following:
(a) An itemized and verified accounting for such sums withdrawn shall be made or certified bills submitted for all such expenditures to the Chief of the Department.
(b) Such expenditures shall be audited by the Common Council of the City of Glens Falls, and, upon approval, such petty cash fund shall be reimbursed from the appropriate budgetary item.
(c) Any such expenditure which is disallowed shall be in the personal liability of the police officer who obtained such advance funds, and such officer shall forthwith reimburse such petty cash fund in the amount of such disallowance. If such reimbursement has not been made by the time of the first payment of salary to such officer after disallowance of such bill, the amount of such disallowance shall be withheld by the City Treasurer from such salary payment, and, if necessary, subsequent salary payments, and paid into such petty cash fund until an amount equal to the amount of such disallowance has been repaid to such petty cash fund.
(d) The petty cash fund shall be administered by the Chief of Police, and the City Controller may require an accounting of the moneys in such fund at any time. [Amended 7-20-2000 by L.L. No. 5-2000]
The Common Council shall provide and keep in order the jail in the City Hall in said city, and such other necessary accommodations as shall be required for the use of said police force. The Board of Public Safety may employ some suitable and competent person to serve as jailor at a compensation to be fixed by it.
It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police, in the month of January in each year, to cause to be published once a week for three weeks, in the official newspaper, a list of articles then remaining unclaimed in the Police Department, and which have been in its possession for a period of one year, with notice that unless claimed by the owner with satisfactory proof of such ownership before a day therein mentioned, the same will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder at a time and place named in said notice. At the time and place named in said notice, all such property remaining unclaimed shall be sold at public auction by the Chief of Police; and the avails thereof, after deducting all expenses of sale, he shall pay to the City Treasurer.