The Police Commissioner may, upon the written request of an
individual citizen or business organization, provide police officers
for special duty assignments in public or quasi-public places within
the City of Yonkers, subject to the following conditions:
A. All such police officers shall be volunteers whose presence are not
required for other police duties, such determination to be made by
the Police Commissioner in his sole discretion.
B. The Police Commissioner, in his sole discretion, shall approve the
specific location and type of duty assignment for such police officers.
C. All such police officers so assigned shall be considered to be on
duty for all purposes, including, without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, being listed on duty rosters and being subject to
the supervision and direction of all their superior officers, including
reassignment and relocation.
D. All police officers so assigned shall be paid by the City of Yonkers
at the regular pay rate for their individual grade and shall receive
no payment from nor shall they be subject to any direction or supervision
from the requesting citizen or business organization. Each police
officer so assigned shall receive a minimum of two hours' pay, regardless
of the time actually worked.
E. The Police Commissioner shall cause to be kept an accurate record
of the time devoted to such special duty assignments by the police
officers and shall promptly report the same to the Comptroller. The
Comptroller shall, as soon as practicable, render a bill in the name
of the City of Yonkers to the individual citizen or business organization
which requested such special duty assignment in accordance with the
fee schedule provided for herein. All fees set forth in such bills
shall be promptly paid to the City of Yonkers.
F. The fee schedule for said assignments shall be set by the Police
Commissioner with the approval of the Mayor, and it shall be effective
48 hours after it is posted in the office of the City Clerk, but in
no event shall the fee schedule exceed the cost, including fringe
benefits, of said assignments to the City of Yonkers.