A by-law to “appoint Municipal Law Enforcement Officers for the City of London.”
WHEREAS by section 15 of the Police Services Act the Council may appoint one or more municipal law enforcement officers who shall be peace officers for the purpose of enforcing the by-laws of the municipality;
AND WHEREAS such municipal law enforcement officers are provincial officers for the purposes of all parking infractions under by-laws of the Municipality in accordance with the designation of the Solicitor General of Ontario attached hereto as Schedule 1.
The Municipal Council of The Corporation of the City of London enacts as follows:
1. The power of appointment of municipal law enforcement officers, including the revocation of appointment, under section 15(1) of the Police Services Act, as amended, for the purposes of enforcement of the parking by-laws duly enacted by Municipal Council within the City of London is hereby delegated from Municipal Council to the Chief Building Official for the City of London, subject to the following conditions:
a. The Chief Building Official must maintain a current list, which shall be provided to the City Clerk, of all municipal law enforcement officers appointed under section 15(1) of the Police Services Act, as amended, for the purpose of enforcement of the parking by-laws duly enacted by Municipal Council within the City of London; and,
b. Prior to their appointment, each candidate for appointment as municipal law enforcement officer must hold the necessary legislated qualifications for the position to which they are to be appointed.
2. The City Clerk shall maintain a public registry of all appointed municipal law enforcement officers, such public registry to be posted on the City’s website.
3. By-laws No. A.-5163-15 and A.-5164-16 and all the amendments thereto are repealed.
4. This by-law comes into force and effect on the day it is passed.
PASSED in Open Council on March 23, 1992.
T. C. Gosnell, Mayor
K. W. Sadler, City Clerk
First Reading – March 23, 1992
Second Reading – March 23, 1992
Third Reading – March 23, 1992