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no Obligation upon the Council or Commission to make any temporary probationary aPPointee a reg,!ar Traffic Safety Patrolman. The Council Or Commission shall receive no applications for appointments as such Patrolmen, but such Comm- ission shall from time to time invite any person over the age of 21 years to accept such appointment. There shall not at any one time be more than fifty (50) Traffic Safety Patrolmen under appointment. SECTION 4: The Traffic Safety Commission shall meet at least once each month at such time as they shall by resolution decide, and shall make monthly reports to the City Council concerning any'and all recommendations for traffic safety and reports of the number of traffic safety violations which have come to their notice and upon which they have taken any action, and shall also furnish a copy of the minutes of all meetings. SECTION 5: The Traffic Safety Patrolmen shall each report to the Traffic Safety Commission any and all violations of traffic safety laws which may come under their observance, and the said Commission shall thereupon take such action concerning the same as may in their discretion appear advisable. SECTION 6: The Traffic Safety Connnission shall prepare or cause to be prepared rules and regulations governing their own conduct end governing the conduct of the Traffic Safety Patrolmen; they shall cause rules and regulations for the Traffic Safety Patrolmen to be printed and copies thereof to be presented to each of such Patrolmen. All such rules and regulations governing the Traffic Safety Commission and the Traffic Safety Patrolmen shall first receive the approval of the City Council of the City of Santa Ana. Such rules and regulatio~ for the Traffic Safety Patrolmen shall include a provision that no information concerning the activities or personnel of the Traffic Safety Patrol shall be given out or released by any member of such patrol, but that all such information if any, shall be released or given out by the Traffic Safety Commission as such, to the effect that the Commission shall operate as a unit and not as individual members thereof. All Commissioners and Patrolmen shall serve without pay. S~CTION V: The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published in three consecutive issue of the ORANGE COUNTY REPORTER, a daily newspaper printed, published and circulated in the City of Santa Ana, and hereby designated for that purpose. The City Council hereby declares that an emergency exists for the immediate passage and adoption of this ordinance in that traffic fatalities and accidents have become a menace to the public health and safety and this ordinance is intended to assist in curbing and preventing such traffic hazards, therefore, the City Council declares that this ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and after its adoption. It is provided, however, that in the event the provision declaring an emergency, should be declared invalid for any reason whatsoever, then and in that event this ordinance shall nevertheless take effect thirty (30) days after the first publication thereof as hereinabove provided and thereafter shall be in full force and effect. PASSED AND ADOPTED by the Council of the City of Santa Ana at its