Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-05-11
Attest: ROBERT GRIFFITH, City
ORDINANCE NO. 70.

I 1NDlNANCE nv. ~.
An ordinance relating to the Chief of Police
and Police Officers.
The Common Council of the city of Austin
do ordain:
SECT1ON1. 1t shall be the duty of the Chief
of Police TO the city Of Austin, and of each
and every policeman and Waterman, to notice
and an diligently inquire into, all violations Of
nal laws OF the State, and breaches of the
peace, committed within said city. and to
guilty thereof, and to attend punctualiy on all
trials of Offenses in regard to which com plant
has been made by any policeman, and to fer
rel on t an SUSPICIOUS or as4rqerly houses in
disturbances or breaches of the peace or viola
tions of any ordinances are occurring, or like
ly to occur, to arrest without warrant any
person or persons who shall be found in the
street in a state Of intOXicatiOn, or who are
fighting, Quarreling, threatening, swearing,
pifering, or robbing, or who shall be making
act to disturb the peace or good order of the
community, or for the violation of any ordi-
nance of said city, where the act is committed
he or they shall have good cause to believe is
about to commit any unlawful act and bring
such person or persons before one of the JUS
tees OF the Peace of said city to be dealt with
according TO law; to abate or remove or cause
to be abated or removed all nuisances within
the city limits when required by the Common
Council or the Board Of Health; to preserve
may be found upon the person. in the posses
sion of, or claimed by any person arrested
for crime, and pay or deliver over the same
by order of the:City Justice, and forthwith,
after taking the same, report in writing the
kind and amount thereof to one of the Justices
of said city. And it shall be the imperative
duty of each policeman or Waterman to be
active and viglant in enforcing the several
provisions of all ordinances Of the city that
may be now or hereafter in force.
SEcr1oN2. Any policeman or Waterman,
after making any arrest, with or without a
warrant, shall take the person or persons 50
arrested, without any unreasonable delay,
before one of the Justices of said city of Aus
tin, to be dealt with according to law and the
ordinances of said city, provided, that if such
then in such case such person or persons shall
be confined in the city prison, or such other
secure place as may be provided or obtained
TOR that purpose, to be kept over night or
over Sunday, or until such time as the JUS
tice OF the Peace OF said city before whom
such person is brought, may Direct in pursu-
ance OF law, for hearing the charge and COM
plant against such person so arrested.
SECTION g., 1t shall be the duty Of the chief
Common Council of said city, at the first reg
ular meeting Of every month, of all arrests
made in the city, since their last report, the
cause OF such arrest, and the nature of the
charge, the time of such arrest, and the sub
sequent disposition of such arrested person
or persons.
No police officer or Waterman shall be absent
from the city, except by authority or per-
mission from the Mayor.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's passage
and publication.
Passed May s, 1881. Approved May Z, 1881.
Attest: ROBERT GRIFFITH, City Recorder.