[Ord. 70-1992 § 1, passed 12-2-1992]
The City shall enter into a Municipal Police Cooperative Agreement
with the County of Erie and various municipalities throughout Erie
County, under the terms of which the police officers of each municipality
are granted authority to officially act as police officers of the
other municipalities, subject to the terms of the Agreement, when
performing duties in the other municipalities and establishing procedures
for the police department for each municipality to render aid and
assistance to one another.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 2, passed 12-2-1992]
The duration of this Agreement shall be indefinite, subject
to termination by any municipality as provided for in this Agreement.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 3, passed 12-2-1992]
The purpose and objective of the Agreement is to foster improved
governmental cooperation between the City and the County of Erie and
the various municipalities throughout Erie County, in order to improve
law enforcement in the County, by providing police officers with the
authority to exercise official duties in the other municipalities,
thereby alleviating problems of arrests being determined improper
or unlawful by reason of jurisdictional or boundary issues.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 4, passed 12-2-1992]
Each municipality shall be responsible for all expenses incurred
by reason of action taken by its police pursuant to the Agreement,
with the exception of those expenses which shall be borne by the Commonwealth
in accordance with 42 Pa.C.S.A. Sec. 8951, et seq.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 5, passed 12-2-1992]
No additional organizational structure shall be necessary to
implement the Agreement, nor shall any property, real or personal,
be acquired, managed or disposed of, in order to effect the purpose
of the Agreement.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 6, passed 12-2-1992]
The effectiveness of this article is conditioned upon the City
executing the aforesaid Agreement and enacting an ordinance implementing
the Agreement.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 7, passed 12-2-1992]
This action is taken pursuant to the authority granted the City
by the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act, 1972, July 12, No. 180,
Sec. 1, et seq., 53 P.S. Sec. 481 et seq., as amended.
[Ord. 70-1992 § 8, passed 12-2-1992]
All ordinances and parts thereof conflicting herewith are hereby
repealed.