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AN ORDINANCE
Amending City Code Section 9-1-5, "Police Powers"
NOW BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
EVANSTON, COOK COUNTY, ILLINOIS:
SECTION 1: Section 9-1-5, "Police Powers," of the Evanston City Code of
2012, as amended, is amended and revised to read as follows:
(A) Police Department: The Police Chief and sworn members of the
Police Department are law enforcing officers and have the power
to:
1. Arrest with or without process, all persons who break the peace,
or violate any municipal ordinance or criminal law of the state;
2. Commit arrested persons for examination;
3. If necessary, detain arrested persons in custody overnight or
Sunday in any safe place, or until they can be brought before
the proper court; and
4. Exercise all other powers as conservators of the peace
prescribed by the corporate authorities.
SECTION 2: The findings and recitals contained herein are declared to be
prima facie evidence of the law of the City and shall be received in evidence as
provided by the Illinois Compiled Statutes and the courts of the State of Illinois.
SECTION 3: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be in full force and effect fromi and after
its passage, approval and publication in the manner provided by law.
SECTION 5: If any provision of this ordinance or application thereof to any
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person or circumstance is ruled unconstitutional or otherwise invalid, such invalidity
shall not affect other provisions or applications of this ordinance that can be given effect
without the invalid application or provision, and each invalid provision or invalid
application of this ordinance is severable.
Introduced: �,i�►3,� � Zf, 2017 Approved:
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Adopted: Orrin , 2017 la �, 12017
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Attest:
Devon Reid, City Cler,
Approved as to form:
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W. Grant Farrar, Corporation Counsel
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