An officer or employee of the city or the fire district designated
by city council resolution is empowered to, and has the duty to, enforce
any provision of any ordinance of the city, and all primary and secondary
codes referred to therein, the violation of which provisions constitute
an infraction or misdemeanor. The employee shall be deemed a public
officer or employee empowered by virtue of this Code and Penal Code
§ 836.5 to give citations for such violations wherever such
officer or employee has reasonable cause to believe that the person
cited has committed such misdemeanor or infraction in his or her presence
which is a violation of the ordinance, primary code or secondary code
which such officer of employee has the duty to enforce.
(Code 1980, § 2.40.010; Ord. No. 54, § 1, 1979; Ord. No. 870 (Recodification), 2014)
