Amended in Senate September 6, 2013

Amended in Senate September 3, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 128

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 begin delete 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 end delete begin insert 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, end insert 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 begin delete 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. end delete begin insert 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. end insert

(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
begin delete Nyes end delete begin insert Nuys end insert Airport.

(c) If the begin delete City of Los Angeles does end delete begin insert Los Angeles Police
Commission and the Los Angeles Board of Airport Commissioners
do end insert not take the necessary actions provided in subdivision (a) and
begin delete the Inspector General of the Los Angeles Police Commission does
not post that action on its Internet Web site end delete begin insert do end insert begin insert not make a record
of that action publicly available end insert 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.