Bill Text: CA AB128 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Peace officers: airport law enforcement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-10-13 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 783, Statutes of 2013. [AB128 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB128-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 128	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 6, 2013
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bradford

                        JANUARY 15, 2013

   An act to add and repeal Section 830.15 of the Penal Code,
relating to peace officers.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 128, as amended, Bradford. Peace officers: airport law
enforcement.
   Existing law establishes categories of peace officers with varying
powers and authority to make arrests and carry firearms. Existing
law provides that a person who is employed as an airport law
enforcement officer is a peace officer whose authority extends to any
place in the state for the purpose of enforcing the law in or about
the properties owned, operated, and administered by the peace officer'
s employing agency or when making an arrest if there is immediate
danger to a person or property, or of an escape of the perpetrator of
an offense. Existing law authorizes this category of peace officer
to carry a firearm.
   This bill, if  the City of Los Angeles takes the necessary
actions to bring the peace officers of Los Angeles World Airports,
the Los Angeles Harbor Police, and the Los Angeles Port Police under
the jurisdiction and control of the Inspector General of the Los
Angeles Police Commission   the Los Angeles Police
Commission and the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners enter
into an agreement to enable the Inspector General of the Los Angeles
Police Commission to conduct audits and investigations of the Los
Angeles Airport Police Division,  on or before April 1, 2014,
would place an airport law enforcement officer regularly employed by
Los Angeles World Airports, as defined, within a different category
of peace officers whose authority extends to any place in the state
without the above restrictions as to arrest powers and with the
authority to carry specified firearms.
   This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to
the necessity of a special statute for the City of Los Angeles,
relating to law enforcement at the Los Angeles International Airport.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 830.15 is added to the Penal Code, immediately
following Section 830.14, to read:
   830.15.  (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (d) of Section 830.33, a
person regularly employed as an airport law enforcement officer by
Los Angeles World Airports is a peace officer for purposes of Section
830.1 if and when the  City of Los Angeles takes the
necessary actions to bring the peace officers of the Los Angeles
World Airports, the Los Angeles Harbor Police, and the Los Angeles
Port Police under the jurisdiction and control of the Inspector
General of the Los Angeles Police Commission.   Los
Angeles Police Commission and the Los Angeles Board of Airport
Commissioners enter   into an agreement to enable the
Inspector General of the Los Angeles Police Commission to conduct
audits and investigations of the Los Angeles Airport Police Division.

   (b) For purposes of this section, "Los Angeles World Airports"
means the department of the City of Los Angeles that owns and
operates the Los Angeles International Airport, the Ontario
International Airport, the Palmdale Regional Airport, and the Van
 Nyes   Nuys  Airport.
   (c) If the  City of Los Angeles does  Los
Angeles Police Commission and the Los Angeles Board of Airport
Commissioners do  not take the necessary actions provided in
subdivision (a) and  the Inspector General of the Los Angeles
Police Commission does not post that action on its Internet Web site
  do   not make a record of that action
publicly available  on or before April 1, 2014, this section
shall become inoperative on that date and, as of January 1, 2015, is
repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before
January 1, 2015, deletes or extends the dates on which this section
becomes inoperative and is repealed.
  SEC. 2.  The Legislature finds and declares that a special law is
necessary and that a general law cannot be made applicable within the
meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution
because of the unique circumstances facing the City of Los Angeles
relating to law enforcement at the Los Angeles International Airport.