US Laws, Codes, Statutes & Cases

 
    §  435.  Department;  duties. a. The police department and force shall
  have the power and it shall be their duty to preserve the public  peace,
  prevent  crime,  detect  and  arrest offenders, suppress riots, mobs and
  insurrections,  disperse   unlawful   or   dangerous   assemblages   and
  assemblages   which   obstruct  the  free  passage  of  public  streets,
  sidewalks, parks and places; protect the rights of persons and property,
  guard the public health, preserve order  at  elections  and  all  public
  meetings and assemblages; subject to the provisions of law and the rules
  and  regulations  of  the  commissioner  of  traffic,  regulate, direct,
  control and restrict the movement of vehicular  and  pedestrian  traffic
  for  the  facilitation  of  traffic and the convenience of the public as
  well as the proper protection of  human  life  and  health;  remove  all
  nuisances  in  the  public  streets, parks and places; arrest all street
  mendicants and beggars;  provide  proper  police  attendance  at  fires;
  inspect  and  observe  all  places  of  public  amusement, all places of
  business having excise or other  licenses  to  carry  on  any  business;
  enforce and prevent the violation of all laws and ordinances in force in
  the  city;  and  for  these  purposes  to  arrest  all persons guilty of
  violating any law or ordinance for  the  suppression  or  punishment  of
  crimes or offenses.
    b.  The  provisions  of  law  and  the  rules  and  regulations of the
  commissioner  of  transportation  relating  to  regulating,   directing,
  controlling and restricting the parking of vehicles and the movement and
  conduct  of  vehicular  and  pedestrian  traffic for the facilitation of
  traffic and the  convenience  of  the  public  as  well  as  the  proper
  protection  of human life and health may also be enforced by an employee
  of the police department who is in a  title  with  the  classified  city
  civil  service  pursuant  to  which such activities may be performed and
  which title was within the department of transportation on the effective
  date of this paragraph or any successor title thereto.
    c. Except as specifically provided herein, nothing contained  in  this
  section  shall  be  deemed  to  limit,  restrict,  divest,  transfer  or
  supersede the powers or the jurisdiction of any  agency  as  defined  in
  section eleven hundred fifty of the charter.
    d.  Nothing  contained  in  this  charter shall be deemed to grant the
  department  of  traffic  cognizance  or  control  over  the  government,
  administration,  disposition  and discipline of the police department or
  police force.