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The City of Natchez entered into a contract on the 10th day
of January, 1997, with the Housing Authority of the City of Natchez to provide for
additional police services to create a drug-and crime-free environment and to provide for
the safety and protection of the residents in its public housing developments located at
Maryland Heights Subdivision, Ram Circle Subdivision, Williams Apartments and the
scattered site Elderly Units. Thus creating the Housing Authority
Officers The assigned police personnel are in addition
to baseline police services. The police department did not reduce its current level of
police services to the public housing developments, particularly in the areas of community
policing, patrol, criminal investigations, community crime prevention educational programs
and seminars, records, dispatch and special operations.
Enforcement of Rules and
Regulations
The housing authority officers are empowered to enforce the following
Authority rules and regulations:
- Unauthorized visitors in unoccupied structures of the Authority shall be
removed.
- Unauthorized visitors creating disturbance or otherwise interfering with the
peaceful enjoyment of lessees on Authority property shall be removed.
- Unauthorized visitors destroying, defacing or removing Authority property
shall be removed and/or criminal enforcement actions shall be taken.
- With regard to the foregoing rules and regulations, the City's police
officers are hereby authorized to give criminal trespass warnings to any person found in
violation of said rules or regulations, i.e.; to give notice to any violators that their
entry on the property or premises is forbidden, and to arrest or cause the arrest and
prosecution of any violators, when appropriate.
- The City, through its police officers, is hereby empowered to enforce the
following rule or regulation:
- The tenant and any visitors to the Authority property shall refrain from,
and shall cause their households to refrain from parking vehicles in any area other than
parking areas designated by Authority management.
- With regard to the foregoing rule or regulation, the City's police officers
are hereby authorized to have removed any and all vehicles found parked in violation of
said rule
- The City, through its police officers, is hereby empowered to enforce such
additional Authority rules and regulations and perform such other duties as shall be
specified in any addenda attached hereto or incorporated herein now or in the future.
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