[Ord. 139, 11/6/1961, § 1; as amended by Ord. No. 21-00104, 4/12/2021]
1. The Police
Department of West Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania,
is hereby established as the certified police department of the Borough,
which shall provide police services to the Borough as established
by Borough Ordinance No. 00103, approved December 30, 2020 and more
fully set forth in the agreement between the Borough and West Earl
Township referenced in Ordinance No. 00103, the terms of which may
be amended from time to time by the authority of Borough Council.
West Earl Township Police Department shall provide police services
to the Borough until such time as the agreement shall expire or be
terminated by a party, whichever first occurs.
2. Wherever
the term "police," "police officer," "police department," or any combination
thereof appear in the Code, such term shall relate to both the Akron
Borough Police Department and the West Earl Township Police Department,
unless and until the agreement shall expire or be terminated by a
party, whichever first occurs. If expiration or termination of the
agreement shall occur, such terms herein shall exclusively revert
to the Akron Borough Police Department.
3. Pursuant
to the agreement, the Township shall be responsible for enforcing
the chapters, parts, and sections of the Code as follows:
A. The Township shall enforce Chapter
2, Part
1, Animal Regulations.
B. The Township shall enforce Chapter
6, Part
2, Discharge of Firearms, Air Rifles, Bows and Arrows or Similar Devices.
C. The Township shall enforce Chapter
6, Part
3, Curfew.
D. The Township shall enforce Chapter
7, Part
1, Open Burning.
E. The Township shall enforce Chapter
13, Part
1, Transient Retail Merchants.
F. The Township shall enforce Chapter
13, Part
3, Alarm System. Registration shall be the responsibility of the Borough.
G. The Township shall enforce Chapter
15, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, except for those provisions relating to the actions by the Mayor in certain circumstances.
H. The Township shall enforce Chapter
21, Part
2, Snow and Ice Removal.
I. The Township shall enforce Chapter
16, Parks and Recreation.
4. West Earl
Township Police Department shall enforce the Code as indicated herein,
until such time as the agreement shall expire or be terminated by
a party, whichever first occurs.
[Ord. 139, 11/6/1961, § 2]
In the event of a legal determination that a Police Department
has not heretofore been legally established, the Borough Council hereby
declares as its legislative intent that this Part shall establish
a Police Department consisting of the present incumbent as Chief of
Police and such other classifications of police officers as may be
from time to time determined by Council by resolution.
[Ord. 139, 11/6/1961, § 3]
Council shall from time to time designate by resolution additional
and/or part time police officers and patrolmen, their term of office,
and their pay.
[Ord. 139, 11/6/1961, § 4]
Nothing herein contained shall affect the authority of the Mayor
to appoint special policemen during emergencies.
[Ord. No. 00103, 12/30/2020]
The West Earl Township Police Department and its police officers
are hereby appointed, effective upon the effective date of this section,
as servicing the Borough of Akron policing needs.
[Ord. No. 00103, 12/30/2020]
All other provisions of the Borough of Akron Code of Ordinances
are amended to reflect the appointment of the West Earl Township Police
and their officers as an additional entity and individuals to service
the policing needs of the Borough of Akron, until termination of those
policing services.
[Ord. No. 00103, 12/30/2020]
Nothing contained herein shall in any way be construed to permanently
repeal the provisions of the Borough of Akron Code of Ordinances as
they would apply to any future Akron Borough Police Department. However,
during the time of police service under the contract with West Earl
Township, West Earl's officers shall serve as the Borough's Police
Department and upon termination of that contract, the provisions of
this Part, related to West Earl Township, shall immediately cease
and the Borough's Police Department shall continue as a policing service
for the Borough or alternatively an additional policing service that
will be engaged at that time will be addressed.