HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance - 197 - Creating a Department of Public Safety - 12/12/1972 VILLAGE OF EDEP? PRAIRIE
HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO. 197
AN ORDINANCE CREATING A DEPARTMENT
OF PUBLIC SAFETY
THE VILLAGE COUNCIL OF 2� VILLAGE OF EDEN PRAIRIE DOES
ORDAIN:
Section 1. Creation. There is hereby created a Department
of Public Safety for the Village of Eden Prairie.
Section 2. Director. The Department of Public Safety shall
be under the direction and supervision of a Director of Public Safety,
who shall be appointed by and be subject to the supervision and direct-
ion of the Vill-age Manager.
Section 3. Purpose. The Department of Public Safety shall be
responsible for the preservation of the public peace and order, the
prevention and detection of crime, the apprehension of offenders, the
equal protection of persons and property, the fair and just enforcement
of law, the prevention of fires, the removal of fire hazards, the render-
ing of fire fighting and other emergency services, the rendering of civil
defense services, and the development and implementation of a program for j
the education and training of both employees of the Village, volunteer
workers for the Village, and citizens of the Village respecting matters
• involving in particular all of the foregoing purposes and in general the
safety and well being of the community at-large.
Section 4. Duties of Director. The Director of Public Safety
shall be responsible to the Village Manager for all aspects of public f�
safety including police activities relating to the fair and just enforce- €
ment of all laws, statutes and ordinances and the preservation of justice,
law and order in the Village; the direction of fire fighting, fire Prot-
ection and fire prevention activities of the Village; the direction of
civil defense and police reserve activities within the Village and the
assignment of personnel within the Public Safety Department.
Section 5. Organization of Public Safety Department. The
Public Safety Department shall consist of a police department division,
a fire department division, a civil defense organization division and
police reserve organization division. The police department division
shall be under the direct supervision of the Public Safety Director.
The fire department department division shall be supervised by the
Fire Chief who shall be responsible to and under the direct supervision
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of the Public Safety Director. The Civil Defense and Police
Reserve divisions shall be responsible to and under the direct
supervision of the Public Safety Director. In addition to the
Public Safety Director and the various department divisions here-
inabove named, supplementary personnel may be added to the Depart-
went of Public Safety from time to time as determined by the
Council-, the number and qualifications of such persons to likewise
be determined by the Council and the actual appointment or employ-
ment of such persons to be accomplished by the Public Safety Director.
Section 6. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and publication.
First read at a regular meeting of the Council of the Village
of Eden Prairie this 1.2th day of December, 1972 and finally read,
adopted and ordered published at a regular meeting of the Council of
said Village on the 26thday of December 19
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J. R. RrrCHAY, being duty sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated '
has been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Minnetonka-Eden Prairie yjpy'
Sun and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in
the English language in newspaper format and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed
space to at least 909 square inches. (2) Said newspaper Is a weekly and is distributed at least aatsl
once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local
interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other
publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said kKi
newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at Ieast R .
500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75% of its total
circulation currently paid or no more than three months in arrears and has entry as second-
class matter in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Minne-
tonka and Village of Eden Prairie in Hennepin County and it has its known office of issue y, " 1 ,�tM..
in the City of Bloomington In Henhepin County, established and open during its regular
business hours for the gathering of news, sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and °°a?`
maintained by the managing officer or persons in its employ and subject to his direction andSYtggr
control during all such regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular
business hours to the business of the newspaper and business related thereto. (6) Said newspaper {
files a copy of each issue immediately with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper has
complied with all foregoing conditions for at least two years preceding the day or dates of
publication mentioned below. (a) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of ¢ s
Minnesota prior to January 1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form .... F
prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed by the publisher of said newspaper and sworn ;
to before a notary public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper.
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and published therein in the English language, once each week, for Oneccessive weeks;
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that it was first so published on lI UT S the 1- day or '� -r. , 19-23
and was thereafter printed and published on every to and including
the day of _ 19 and that the following is a printed copy
1 of the lower case alphabet from A to Z. both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being
the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit:
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