113 of 1994 - Requiring that City police officers, hired after December 15, 1994, as a condition of employment, be0 94-1
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SALT LAKE CITY ORDINANCE
No. 113 of 1994
(Requiring that City police officers,
hired after December 15, 1994,
as a condition of employment,
be residents of the City
within eighteen months after they are hired.)
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING THAT CITY POLICE OFFICERS, HIRED
AFTER DECEMBER 15, 1994, AS A CONDITION OF EMPLOYMENT, BE
RESIDENTS OF THE CITY WITHIN EIGHTEEN MONTHS AFTER THEY ARE
HIRED.
PREAMBLE
The City finds that it has governmental interests in having
its police officers reside within its jurisdiction. These
governmental interests include the following:
1. The City has a car -per -officer program based, in part,
on the public policy that permitting a police officer to take a
City police car home in off -duty hours enhances community safety
in the City through increased presence and visibility and by
shortening response time in the event of emergencies. The
purposes of the car -per -officer program are better served if the
police officer lives in the City.
2. The City has an interest in enhancing community safety
in the City through increased presence and visibility of police
officers in the City.
3. The City has an interest in enhancing community safety
through shorter response times by its police officers in the
event of emergencies.
4. The City has an interest in promoting, in its police
officers, community loyalty.
5. The City interests are better served if its police
officers are residents and a part of this community; it makes
them able to better understand and identify with the residents
and their problems.
6. The City has an interest in enhancing its economy and
tax base.
7. The City has a greater interest in having its police
officers reside in the City than other classes of employees,
among other reasons, because: it improves crime control; the
car -per -officer program is more beneficial to the City; it
promotes the City's desire to have greater visible police
presence in the City; the communications equipment in their
vehicles will be available for use in an emergency; and there is
a higher probability of a shorter response time for crowd control
and other necessary law enforcement during an emergency.
8. The City also finds that there is adequate housing
available in the City, so that newly hired police officers can
comply with the residency requirement.
9. Newly hired police officers should be provided a
reasonable time, after they are hired, to change their residency
to the City. The City finds that, considering the advance notice
of the residency requirement, eighteen months following a hire
date, is a reasonable time for such change.
10. Although the City has an interest in having its police
officers reside in the City, it finds that presently it does not
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desire to dislocate currently employed police officers. Over
time, the City's objectives can be achieved, without imposing
unexpected or unreasonable burdens on currently employed police
officers, by limiting the new residency requirement to police
officers hired after December 15, 1994.
Be it ordained by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah:
SECTION 1.
PURPOSE. The purpose of this ordinance is to
establish, as a condition of employment, the requirement that
police officers, hired after December 15, 1994, be residents of
the City within eighteen months after the date they are hired as
full-time employees of the City and each shall continue to be
City residents throughout their employment.
SECTION 2. RESIDENCY REQUIREMENT.
A. As a condition of employment, police officers hired
after December 15, 1994, shall be required to be residents of the
City on or before eighteen months following the date they are
hired.
B. For purposes of this ordinance, persons are residents
of the City, if the persons' place of habitation and domicile is
permanently and definitely located in the City. Persons are not
residents of the City if they:
1. come to the City for temporary purposes and
without intending to make the City their permanent domicile;
or
2. would otherwise not be eligible to be a registered
voter in a City municipal election.
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C. Residency in the City shall be a continuing condition
of employment for police officers hired after December 15, 1994.
D. The residency requirement provided in this ordinance
shall not affect police officers hired prior to December 15, 1994
or to the promotions or assignments of such exempted police
officers within the City Police Department.
SECTION 3. NO EFFECT ON OTHER EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS. The
requirements in this ordinance shall not extend or otherwise
affect police officers' probationary periods or the at -will
status of police officers, during their probationary periods.
The requirements in this ordinance shall not affect other
conditions of employment imposed on City police officers.
SECTION 4. IMPLEMENTATION. All job announcements and other
recruitment notices to applicants for police officer positions
with the City shall include notices of the residency requirements
provided in this ordinance.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE DATE. The effective date of this
ordinance shall be December 15, 1994.
Passed by the City Council of Salt Lake City, Utah,
this 13 day of December , 19 94 .
ATTEST:
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HIE PUT ITY RECORDE
CHAIRPERSON
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Transmitted to the Mayor on January 3, 1995
Mayor's Action:
ATTEST:
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CHIEF EPUTY
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XXX Approv;d Vetoed
Bill 113 of 1994
Published: January 11, 1995
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