Department Of Law - Prosecuting Attorney

There is hereby established an executive department of the municipal government, to be known as the Department of Law, which shall embrace the Corporation Counsel and assistants; one of the assistants shall be known as the City Attorney and the other as Prosecuting Attorney.

The Prosecuting Attorney shall be charged with the prosecution of all actions for violation of the ordinances of the city. He shall institute an action in every case where there has been a violation of an ordinance, when instructed so to do by the Corporation Counsel, or by the chief officer of any department, or upon complaint of any other person when, in the judgment of the Corporation Counsel, the public interest requires that the same shall be prosecuted.

Counc. Proceedings for 1909, p. 1586.