[Adopted 3-25-1968 by Ord. No. 20-1968 as Ch. 2 of the 1968 Code (Ch. 5, Art. XXVI, of the 1980 City Code); amended in its entirety at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. I) ]
The Police Chief of the City shall appoint as many school traffic guards as he shall deem necessary in the City.
It shall be the duty of school traffic guards to regulate and control pedestrian traffic, particularly schoolchildren, at street school crossings, and to regulate vehicular traffic to the extent that it is necessary to provide intervals for such pedestrian crossing. The traffic guards shall be employed on regular school days and during their training period and, unless otherwise ordered by the Chief of Police, shall perform such duties during the following hours.
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Morning: from 8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
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Lunch period: from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
C. 
Afternoon: from 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
To be eligible for appointment as a school traffic guard, an applicant must not be less than 21 years of age, must be a citizen of the United States, a resident of the City, of good moral character, able to read and write the English language understandably. Such school traffic guards shall be in good health, sound in body and mind and certified to by the Police Surgeon as being physically capable of performing the duties required.[1]
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Editor's Note: As to the Police Department Surgeon, see Art. II of this chapter.
The Chief of Police shall supply to each applicant for school traffic guard a blank application form, which shall be filled out by each applicant and forwarded to the Chief, and if it shall appear from such completed application that the applicant qualifies as to age, citizenship and residence, the Chief of Police shall notify such qualified applicant to report to the Police Surgeon for a physical examination. The Chief of Police then shall interview such qualified applicant as to character, education and home responsibilities and render a report to the Chief of Police.
It shall be the duty of the Police Surgeon to examine the mental and physical fitness of each applicant for the position of school traffic guard instructed by the Chief of Police to report to him and to submit a report to the Chief of Police.
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The City shall purchase uniforms for the school traffic guards to be employed. A condition of employment shall be that each school traffic guard shall agree to purchase a uniform from the City at cost thereof and to pay therefor by semimonthly deductions of $5, to be made by the City Finance Director, from the wages due, until such time as the uniform shall be fully paid for and at which time it shall become the property of the school traffic guard. Until fully paid for, such uniform shall remain the property of the Police Department.
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Should any school traffic guard be dismissed or resign at any time before the uniform has been fully paid for, the sums deducted for the cost of the uniform shall remain the property of the City, and the school traffic guard shall forthwith return the uniform to the Police Department.
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In addition to wages as fixed by the City, annually, on or about September 15, each school traffic guard who shall have completed at least one full year of service prior thereto may receive, upon approval of the Chief, an allowance for uniforms to be determined by the City.
Subject to rules to be adopted by the Police Department, a regularly employed school traffic guard may be granted sick leave with pay not in excess of five working days in any year, provided that, if such leave is not taken in any year, such leave shall not be accumulated and used in any subsequent year.