§ 150. Establishment of town police departments. 1. The town board of any town may establish a police department and appoint a chief of police and such officers as may be needed and fix their compensation. The compensation of such police officers shall be a town charge; providing however, no assessment on property in any […]
§ 151. Qualifications. No person shall be eligible to appointment or reappointment to such police department, nor continue as a member thereof, who shall not be a citizen of the United States, who has been convicted of a felony, who shall be unable to read and write understandingly the English language or who shall not […]
§ 152. Promotion. The town board may determine that promotions of officers and members of such police department shall be made by the town board on the basis of seniority, meritorious police service and superior capacity as shown by competitive examination, such examination to be conducted by the appropriate civil service commission. Individual acts of […]
§ 153. Transfers. Transfers from one town police department to another town or village police department in the same county may be made upon the mutual consent of the appointing officers of the departments affected. Any member of such police force who is or has been transferred shall receive credit with the department to which […]
§ 154. Administration. The town board may make, adopt and enforce rules, orders and regulations for the government, discipline, administration and disposition of the police department and of the members thereof. Such rules and regulations and all amendments thereto shall be in writing and shall be posted in a conspicuous place in the police headquarters. […]
§ 154-a. Physical examinations. The town board may, from time to time, provide, by resolution, for the physical examination of any or all members of the police department by a duly qualified physician designated by the town board. The costs of such examinations shall be a town charge.
§ 155. Discipline and charges. Except as otherwise provided by law, a member of such police department shall continue in office unless suspended or dismissed in the manner hereinafter provided. The town board shall have the power and authority to adopt and make rules and regulations for the examination, hearing, investigation and determination of charges, […]
§ 156. Effect of resignation. Any member of such department who shall resign shall be eligible for reinstatement in the same police force or police department or in any other police force or police department to which he was eligible for transfer at the time of his resignation, provided such reinstatement occurs within one year […]
§ 157. Absentee leave. Every member of such police department shall be entitled, in addition to any vacation or absentee leave now prescribed by law, to one day of rest in seven. The chief or acting chief of the police department shall keep a time book showing the name and shield number of each member […]
§ 158. Special police officers. 1. The town board of any town of the first class and the town board of any town of the second class which shall have a population of five thousand or more as shown by the latest federal census, whether there be a police department in and for such town […]
