Metro Government of Nashville and Davidson County |
Code of Ordinances |
Title 2. ADMINISTRATION |
Division I. Council, Offices, Officers and Departments |
Chapter 2.44. POLICE DEPARTMENT |
Article II. School Crossing Guard Division |
§ 2.44.130. Supervision—Limitations on police authority.
The chief of police shall designate a director of the school crossing guard division with authority to supervise the work of the division. It is the intent of this article to establish a school crossing guard division solely to maintain the safety and protection of school children on their way to and from school. The employees of the division shall have no police authority to make arrests or issue traffic citations, and may direct traffic only during times when children are going to or coming from schools, by creating gaps in traffic for the purpose of protecting children going to or coming from schools from vehicles, and expediting the movement of vehicles involved in picking up or dropping off children at schools, including vehicles which have completed the dropping off of children or are preparing to pick up children.
(Ord. BL2012-261 § 6, 2012; Ord. 93-789 § 1, 1993; prior code § 34-1-13)