Note: All boldfaced emphasis is that of the editor 
Preamble:
“Under the sovereignty of Almighty God, in whom we faithfully trust, We, the people of the City of Trenton, County of Wayne and State of Michigan, in order to perfect the great objectives of good and free government, to establish distributive and communitative justice, to extend civil liberty to all men, to maintain peace and public safety, to ensure economic and efficient administration of our city affairs, and in general to promote the welfare and happiness of our people, regardless of race, color, creed, or nationality, do hereby ordain and establish this Home Rule Charter for the City of Trenton, Michigan, by virtue of the authority of the Constitution and Public Act 279 of 1909, as amended, of the State of Michigan.”

CHAPTER I: NAME AND BOUNDARIES

CHAPTER II: MUNICIPAL POWERS
Section 2.2: “The City and its officers shall have the power to exercise all municipal powers in the management and control of municipal property and in the administration of municipal government, whether such powers be expressly enumerated herein or not; to do any act to advance the interests of the city, the good government and prosperity of the municipality and its inhabitants . . .”
Section 2.3: Further Definition of Powers that the City government has:
a)	The acquisition . . . of private property of every type and nature for public use . . .
b)	The maintenance, development, operation, leasing, and disposal of city property . . .
f)	The use, regulation, improvement and control of the surface of its streets, alleys, and public ways [including sidewalks], and of the space above and beneath them.
l)	Regulating, restricting, and limiting the number and location of oil and gas stations
p)	The regulating of trades, occupations, and amusements within the city, not inconsistent with state and federal laws, and for the prohibiting of such trades, occupations, and amusements as are detrimental to the health, morals, or welfare of its inhabitants
r)	The preventing of injury or annoyance to the inhabitants of the city from anything which is dangerous, offensive, or unhealthful, and for preventing and abating nuisances and punishing those occasioning them or neglecting or refusing to abate, discontinue or remove the same
t)	The regulating of all airports located within its boundaries . . .and regulating the use above the city by aircraft of all types
u)	The prohibiting or regulating of the use, occupancy, sanitation and parking of house trailers within the city
v)	The requiring of an owner of real property within the city to maintain sidewalks abutting upon such property, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements or if the owner is unknown, to construct and maintain such sidewalks and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property . . .
w)	The requiring of an owner of real property within the city to abate public hazards and nuisances which are dangerous to the health or safety of inhabitants of the city within a reasonable time after the Council notifies him that such hazard or niusance exists, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements, or if the owner is unknown, to abate such hazard or nuisance and assess the cost thereof against such property . . . 
x)	The compelling of owners of real property within the city to keep sidewalks abutting upon their property clear from snow, ice, or other obstructions, and if the owner fails to comply with such requirements,  to remove such snow, ice, or ther obstructions and assess the cost thereof against the abutting property . . .

CHAPTER III: ELECTIONS
Section 3.2: Election Procedure
a)	The election of all city officers shall be on a non-partisan basis.
b)	The Clerk shall give public notice of the time and place of holding each city election and of the officers to be elected and the questions to be voted upon . . .
c)	The City of Trenton shall consist of one ward.  The precincts into which the city is divided on the effective date of this charter shall remain the precincts of the city until changed pursuant to this charter.

Section 3.6 Elective Officers and Terms of Office:
Mayor (2-year term of office)
Six City Councilpersons (4-year term of office; 3 of them are up for election in 2 years, then the other three in another 2 years, etc).
Clerk (2-year term of office)
Treasurer (2-year term of office)
Assessor (2-year term of office)
	
	Nominations.  By petition, signed by 40-60 registered electors of the city [to get on the ballot]

Election Commission: The City Clerk (chair), the City Attorney, and the three City Councilpeople who aren’t up for re-election run the elections, and make sure all the rules are followed.

Tie Vote.  If there’s a tie for any election, it’s decided by lot!

Recall.  It can happen in Trenton, subject to law.

CHAPTER IV: ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT
Mayor and City Council:
a)	Mayor is the executive head of the City
b)	Council = the Mayor + the Councilpersons (7 people total)
c)	They make all the ordinances together, by vote
d)	The mayor makes $75 per City Council meeting for each one they show up at
e)	The City Council makes $50 per meeting they attend

Mayor Pro-Tem:
a)	It’s the City Councilperson who has served 2 years, and had the highest number of votes cast for him/her when he/she took office
b)	Serves as the Mayor when the Mayor isn’t around

Other Elected City Officers:
a)	City Clerk
b)	City Treasurer
c)	City Assessor

Appointed City Officers (Mayor appoints them within 30 days of taking office):
a)	Deputy Mayor (administrative assistant officer)
b)	Controller
c)	City Attorney (must be ratified by four votes of the City Council, and the Mayor can’t vote)
d)	City Engineer
e)	Chief of Police
f)	Fire Chief
g)	Director of Public Works
h)	Health Officer
An interesting check and balance: all of these people except the City Attorney “shall serve at the discretion and pleasure of the Mayor for an indefinite term, and shall have their compensation fixed by the Council.  The Council, however, shall have the power by four votes of its members to remove from office any appointive administrative officer or department head, in which case the Mayor shall be precluded from voting. 

Mayor’s Duties: 
a)	Executive head of the city
b)	Gets to vote, but has NO VETO POWER
c)	Presides over the City Council
d)	Has emergency sheriff-like power to quell “riots and disorder, and shall have authority to command the assistance of all able-bodied citizens to aid in the enforcement of the ordinances and regulations of the Council and the authority of the city government.”
f)	“shall see that all the laws and ordinances are enforced”

Deputy Mayor’s Duties:
a)	Full Time Administrative Assistant Officer (the Mayor is a part-time mayor)
b)	Assists the Mayor in nearly all aspects of his job

Controller’s Duties:
a)	The Head Accountant (keeps track of where all the money is and where it’s going

City Attorney’s Duties:
a)	Prosecutes Ordinance Violations
b)	Represents the City of Trenton in court
c)	The legal advisor to the City

City Clerk’s Duties:
a)	Keeps the records of all the Council’s meetings
b)	Keeps the City’s records
c)	Runs City elections

City Treasurer’s Duties:
a)	Collects taxes
b)	Disburses funds

City Assessor:
a)	Assesses property values when houses are bought and sold, and at other times as well.

City Engineer:
a)	Does all the engineering work required by the City
b)	Acts as a city surveyor, with all the powers and duties of one from the County
c)	The Chief Enforcer of the Trenton Building Codes

Chief of Police
a)	Administrative head of the Trenton Police Department
b)	Does whatever the City Council and the Mayor tell him to do

Fire Chief
a)	Administrative head of the Trenton Fire Department
b)	Does whatever the City Council and the Mayor tell him to do

Director of Public Works
a)	Administrative head of the Department of Public Works
b)	Takes care of the public infrastructure in the City (roads, sidewalks, sewers)

CHAPTER V: GENERAL PROVISIONS REGARDING OFFICERS AND PERSONNEL WITHIN THE CITY
The “I Have to Quit Now” Clause:
	Any elected city official not up for re-election and running for another position must announce that he/she is quitting his/her original position within 30 days of the election, which goes into effect 10 days before it.

Anti-Nepotism Clause:
	If you’re a spouse, child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother, sister., half-brother, half-sister, or the spouse of any of the aforementioned, you can’t work for the city unless you were elected OR the City Council UNANIMOUSLY votes for you to serve in whatever capacity you’re trying for.

Vacancies (filled until the next election):
Mayor – Mayor Pro Tem
Any other Elected Position Except a City Councilperson – Majority vote of the City Council
City Council – No one, unless the vacancy is longer than 120 days, and then it’s by a majority vote of who is left on the Council.

Residency Requirement:
If you’ve been APPOINTED to a job in the City, you have to live here within 6 months of getting the job, and you must continue to live here as long as you have the job.

CHAPTER VI: THE COUNCIL: PROCEDURES AND MISCELLANEOUS POWERS AND DUTIES
•	The meetings are public ones (check TPS TV every other Monday!)
•	If three or more Councilpersons vote to make an absent Councilperson attend, they can 
•	Their meetings pretty much run like Robert’s Rules of Order
•	The 4 kinds of actions the City Council can do:
1.	Ordinance (anything that has the force of law and/or carries a penalty for violating it)
2.	Resolution (doesn’t have the force of law, and can only be about powers that the Charter, state, or federal law gives the City Council)
3.	Motion (can only be about powers that the Charter, state, or federal law gives the City Council)
4.	Order (and can only be about powers that the Charter, state, or federal law gives the City Council)

CHAPTER VII: LEGISLATION
•	You can start initiatives and referendums in the City if you want
To get an initiative passed:
1.	Make up a City ordinance you want to pass, and fill out the initiative petition forms in the City Clerk’s office (include exactly how you want your ordinance to read)
2.	Get 25% of all the voters in Trenton to sign it within 30 days
•	(if it’s a public improvement, you need to spell out who’s benefiting from it, and you need 51% of their signatures)
3.	Get it to the City Clerk before those 30 days are up, with a sworn affidavit that the signatures are legit
4.	The Clerk will check the signatures within 15 days, and if any are lacking, she’ll tell you so you can go get the ones you need in time
5.	The Clerk presents your initiative to the City Council
•	If it’s a public improvement, the Council will forward it to the appropriate City department for review and a report before it votes on anything 
•	AND, if that department doesn’t recommend the improvement be done, a special hearing will be held, and everyone affected by it will get a special letter to attend. 
6.	The Council will do one of the following within 30 days:
•	Adopt the ordinance
•	Submit the proposal to all the voters (which will happen at the next general election, or if that’s’ over 150 days away, at a special election within 60 days).

To do a referendum:
Same steps as above, only you are proposing to change or eliminate something
•	The City Council automatically suspends the ordinance in question until the election

About Initiatives and Referenda:
•	If you get an initiative passed, it can’t be messed with at all for one year
•	If you get something repealed by a referendum, it can’t be reenacted for one year
•	If two or more referenda pass in the same election that contradict each other, the one with more votes wins out 
•	
•	The City Council needs a 5-vote majority to do the following:
1.	Getting rid of any part of a street or a public place, including selling it
2.	Condemning private property
3.	Creating or abolishing an office
4.	Appropriating any money
•	If they want to spend more than what they appropriated, it goes to a referendum, and it needs 3/5 of the voters to pass.
5.	Imposing any tax or assessment
Reconsidering or rescinding a City Council vote

OUR ORDINANCES: 
(NOTES TO THE READER): 
1) Some are paraphrased, others are quoted.
2) I’ll leave it to the reader to determine whether or not these ordinances are stupid, worthless, or otherwise just plain funny.  All OF THEM ARE NOTEWORTHY, HOWEVER )
3) I’ve added all boldface emphasis.

Sensible (?) Ordinances you should know:
1)	1-9 Aiding and Abetting
“Whenever any act or omission to act is a violation of this Code, or of any rule or regulation adopted thereunder, any person who causes, secures, aids or abets such violation may be prosecuted, and any conviction thereof, shall be punished as if he had directly committed such violation.

2)	1-8 General Penalty for violation or misdemeanor: 
fine up to $500, and/or 90 days jail time.  EACH ACT=SEPARATE OFFENSE

3)	For civil infractions: 
No less than $25 fine + court costs

4)	second offense: double the original fine + court costs

5)	third and subsequent offenses: quadruple the original fine + court costs 

6)	EVERY DAY THERE'S A VIOLATION, IT'S COUNTED AS A SEPARATE OFFENSE!

7)	Municipal Civil Infractions
-Issued by City officials
-If you plead “not guilty” (try to fight the ticket), you go to the 33rd District Court and do it there
-Otherwise, you take care of the ticket at the Ordinance Bureau at Trenton City Hall (if you're not trying to fight it)
-Who Can Issue Municipal Civil Infractions?
•	Police Officers
•	City Engineer OR DESIGNEES
•	Fire Chief
•	Fire Marshal
•	Parks & Rec Director
•	Director of Public Works

$25 FINES for violations of the following ordinances: 
1)	Subsection 4-10 Using a False ID to gain entry into “any establishment which sells, serves or furnishes alcoholic beverages.”
2)	Subsection 6-31 Dogs running at large (without a leash or other restraint)
3)	Subsection 6-32 Barking Dogs
“No person shall harbor or keep any dog, which, by loud, frequent, or habitual barking, yelping, or howling, shall cause annoyance to the neighborhood and people passing on the streets.”
4)	Subsection 6-54 Cats running at large
“It shall be unlawful for the owner, or any person having the possession, care, custody, or control thereof, to permit any cat to run at large upon the public streets, walks, parks, or other public places within the city.
5)	Subsection 6-56 Disposition of Unredeemed Cats
“The police department shall, within 72 hours after impounding any cat, destroy such animal or, if it is deemed valuable, sell it to the highest bidder at public auction to be held at 12:00 noon next succeeding the 72 hours.
6)	Subsection 8-2 Interfering w/streets while launching boats

7)	Subsection 21-63 Not registering a bicycle in the city
8)	Subsection 23-60 Riding horses or mules in city parks
9)	Subsection 23-68,23-69 Begging or sleeping in city parks
10)	Subsection 23-1 violating closing time for parks (10:00pm-6:00am)

Fines of $1000:
Subsection 33-127 Accidental & Slug Discharges (hazardous materials leakage)

NOTEWORTHY ORDINANCES:
Subsection 3-20 Handbills NOT ALLOWED on cars!
Subsection 4-5: If a police officer has reasonable cause to suspect you’ve been using alcohol, you can be forced to take a breathalyzer (or it's a civil infraction) and you're busted under this section if you've blown a .02
Violation 1: $100 fine, maybe community service and substance abuse screening at your own expense
Violation 2: $200 fine, maybe community service and substance abuse screening at your own expense, AND subject to state sanctions

Subsection 4-8: 
(allowing) use of alcoholic beverages and drugs (by minors) at social gatherings:
•	$500 and/or 30 days in jail, + damages to property

Subsection 5-73 "Immoral, vulgar, suggestive, improper, or obscene dancing [at public dances sponsored by the city] is prohibited"

Subsection  6-3 [The ‘Don’t You Dare Color Birds’ Law]
“It shall be unlawful for any person to artificially color, spray or paint any bird or fowl, or sell, offer for sale, or otherwise dispose of any such colored bird or fowl.”

Subsection  8-3 [The ‘Don’t Make Loud Noises In Your Boat, Among Other Things’ Law]:
“No person, while using or operating any boats or watercraft, shall make any loud, boisterous, unnecessary noise, or drink and expose intoxicating liquor, or commit an immoral act, or throw, scatter, or deposit any bottles, cans, containers, garbage, rubbish or other animal or organic matter into the Detroit River, the public streets or private property within the city.”

Subsection 12-114 [Noise Ordinance]
(A): No person shall unreasonably make, continue or cause to be made or continued, any noise disturbance…

[Playing] any radio, television, phonograph, drum, musical instrument, sound amplifier or similar device which produces, reproduces, or amplifies sound:

(a)	between the hours of 10:00pm and 7:00am the following day in such a manner as to create a noise disturbance across a real property boundary
(b)	In such a manner as to create a noise disturbance at fifty feet from such device, when operated in or on a motor vehicle on a public right-of-way or public space, or in a boat on public waters
(c)	In such a manner as to create a noise disturbance to any person other than the operator of the device, when operated by any passenger on a common carrier

Subsection 14-158 [The ‘Fireworks Are Bad’ Ordinance]: 
A person . . . shall not offer for sale, expose for sale, sell at retail, keep with intent to sell at retail, possess, give, furnish, transport, use, explode or cause to explode any of the following:
(a)	Fireworks, including Class B [bottle rockets et al] and C [smoke bombs, party poppers, etc.]

Subsection 19-7. Use of indecent language on telephone:
“Any person who telephones another person or causes any other person to be telephoned and uses any vulgar, indecent, obscene, annoying, threatening or offensive language or suggests any lewd or lascivious act over any telephone shall be guilty of a violation of this code.”

Subsection 19-10. Desecration of flag:
(a)	“No person shall knowingly cast contempt upon any flag of the United States, flag of the state or flag of the city by publicly mutilating, defacing, burning or trampling upon the flag, or by displaying the flag on the person, or otherwise in such a manner as to cast contempt upon the flag.”

Subsection 19-13.  Spitting in public places:
“No person shall spit upon any public sidewalks, or upon the floor or interior of any public conveyance, or upon the floor or walls of any theater, hall, assembly room, church, school, or public building.”

Subsection 19-14: Abandoned Refrigerators:
“It shall be unlawful for any person to leave outside of any building or dwelling, or in a place accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox, refrigerator, deep freeze, trunk, chest, cooler, cabinet or any other container of any kind which has an airtight door or lock which may not be released from opening from the inside of said icebox, refrigerator, deep freeze, trunk, chest, cooler, cabinet or any other container, without first removing the locks or doors therefrom.”

Subsection 19-135 Porn peddling ordinance:
(a)	It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, lend, give away, distribute, show or transmute, or offer either to sell, lend, give away, distribute, show or transmute, or to have in his possession with intent to sell, lend, give away, distribute, show or transmute, or advertise in any manner, or to otherwise knowingly offer for either loan, gift, sale, or distribution, any obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent, sadistic or masochistic book, magazine, pamphlet, newspaper, story paper, writing, paper, phonograph record, picture, drawing, photograph, motion picture film, figure, image, wire or tape recording or any written, printed, or recorded matter of an indecent character which may or may not require mechanical or other means to be transmuted into auditory, visual or sensory representations of such character.

(b)	6 or more identical copies of the stuff mentioned in (a) OR 6 or more items of the stuff mentioned in (a) = prima facie evidence of possession with intent to distribute.

Subsection 19-136 Distribution of Porn to Minors [The ‘American Pie’ Ordinance]:
“If a person knowingly sells or gives any of the things mentioned in 19-135 (a) for a minor, that person is guilty of a violation of that ordinance.”

Subsection 19-137: [The ‘Things Defined As Porn’ Ordinance]:
The test to be applied in cases under this article (19-135) shall not be whether sexual desires or sexually improper thoughts would be aroused in those comprising a particular segment of the community, the young, the immature, or the highly prudish, or would leave another segment, the scientific or highly educated or the so-called worldly wise and sophisticated, indifferent and unmoved.  But such test shall be the effect of the book, picture or other subject of complaint considered as a whole, not upon any particular class, but upon all whom it is likely to reach, that is, its impact on the average person in the community.  The book, picture or other subject of complaint must be judged as a whole in its entire context, not by considering separate or detached portions only, and by the standards of common conscience of the community of the contemporary time period of the violation charged.

Subsection 21-1 [Speed Limit for Trains]:
Trains can’t go faster than 25 mph in city limits.
 
Subsection 21-2 [Parking Trains near crossing]
Can’t park trains or cars more than 3 railroad car lengths from any street or RR crossing in the city.
21-5 Penalty for violations in 21-1 and 21-2: $500 fine/90 days in jail

Subsection 21-6 [Back-of-pickup rule] 
(under 18 prohibited from riding in backs of pickups, except in designated parade vehicles or military vehicles)

Subsection 21-16, 5.82-5.83 
Kids under the age of four years old need to be seated in a child restraint system when riding in a vehicle.

Subsection 5.97a [An Interesting Ice Cream Truck Regulation]
(you have to stop whenever they have their stop sign out, [their speed limit is 15 mph?] and must stop for all pedestrians)

Subsection 21-73 [Selected bicycle safety rules]:
1)	Can’t ride a bike that isn’t equipped with adequate brakes
2)	Must ride single-file, in a straight line and as near the right-hand curb as possible
3)	Riding no more than 2 abreast is OK
4)	Must give the proper left-turn and right-turn hand signals before doing so

Subsection 21-74 Penalties for Bike Riders ages 16 and under violating any bike safety rules
1)	1st Offense: Written Reprimand sent home with warning about losing riding privileges
2)	2nd Offense: Summons to TPD HQ with parent/guardian for a hearing/possible 30-day bike impoundment with parental approval
3)	3rd and subsequent Offenses: Referral to juvenile court
4)	Nothing goes on any permanent court record for anyone 16 or younger
5)	IF YOU’RE OVER 16: $100 fine and/or 90 days in jail after conviction

Subsection 21-104 
Points [for not carrying proof of insurance in your car] not to be put on record

Subsection 21-141 [When the cops can arrest you without a warrant]
Cops can do this:
(a)	When a misdemeanor or ordinance violation is committed in the peace officer’s presence
(b)	When the peace officer has reasonable cause to believe that the person was, at the time of an accident, the operator of a vehicle involved in it

Subsection 23-62 [Playing Sports in Parks]
“No person shall engage in any sport, game, exercise or amusement in the city park system except such portions thereof as may be designated for such activities by the director of parks and recreation and then only under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by him.”

Subsection 23-69 [Sleeping in parks; using hammocks]
Can’t sleep from 10:00p-6:00a in a park, or use a hammock at all in a park.

Subsection 23-71 [Throwing Missiles; Shooting Golf Balls In City Parks]
“No person shall throw or cast any stones or any other missiles within the city park system or shoot any golf balls or other similar missiles in any part of the park unless there is an area specifically designated for such activity.”

Subsection 23-77 [Fortune telling; Gambling in parks]
“No person shall tell fortunes, play at games of chance or use any gambling device in the city park system”

Subsection 23-79 [Disorderly Conduct in the park system]
“No person shall make, countenance or assist in making any improper noise or engage in any riot, disorderly conduct or collect with other persons, in crowds for unlawful purposes or to the annoyance, obstruction or disturbance of other persons in any city park.”

Subsection 23-92 [Conduct in the Midsummer Festival, Fireworks Display, Treadmill Run, Taste of Trenton, or anything else designated as a city-wide event by the City Council]—you can’t:
(a)	Bring any animal (including fish or reptile) into the area designated for the special event, whether or not in a restraining device, unless said animal is necessary to assist the handicapped, or is registered to participate in an official event, contest, or other activity authorized by the city or the other collective sponsors of the special event.
(b)	Bring or ride any bicycle, unicycle, moped, or motorized scooter into the area designed for the special event, unless said cycle is registered to participate in an official event, contest, or other activity authorized by the city or the other collective sponsors of the special event or required by the owner to assist with a handicap; however, it shall be permissible to walk such devices to any storage rack, if any, which is provided by the city or sponsors for that purpose.
(c)	Wear or utilize any skateboard, roller skates, roller blades, or other similar device in the special event area.

Subsection 23-95 Penalties for violating anything in Subsection 23-92: up to $100, plus court costs.

Subsection 26-2 [Non-identification of self to police is a criminal act]
No person shall refuse to give his name, address and explanation of his actions upon demand of a police officer who has stopped such person in a public place in the city, whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed or is about to commit a felony or breach of the peace, or is violating a condition of pardon, parole, or probation.

Subsection 26-3 [The ‘Belton Searches are just fine in Trenton, Too’ Ordinance]:
When a police officer has stopped a person for questioning pursuant to section 26-2 and reasonably suspects he is in danger, he may search such person for a dangerous weapon.  The police officer may take and keep any such weapon or any other thing, the possession of which may constitute a crime, until he has completed the questioning, at which time he shall either return such item, if lawfully possessed, or arrest such person.

Subsection 26-70 [Unauthorized entry into police data network]
Hacking the police department network (or generally accessing it w/o permission): $500 fine and/or up to 90 days in prison.

Subsection 30-94 [Annual Inspection of swimming pools]:
In order to ensure protection of the public health as well as that of the owners of swimming pools, an annual inspection of all pools shall be made by the department of health and city engineer, beginning on the first day of June of each year.  The inspection shall include the testing of all equipment to determine that pumps are operating properly, that the electrical equipment is in a safe condition, that the circulating system and discharge lines are properly operating and that no health hazard exists.

Subsection 31-42 [Don’t go planting unauthorized trees]
No planting of trees without written permission from the City Engineer.

Subsection 31-71, 31-73 [The ‘Weeds are bad’ Ordinance]
•	“Noxious Weeds” such as Canada thistles, milkweed, wild carrots, ox-eye daisies, ragweed, goldenrod, burdock, poison ivy, causing a “menace to the public health, safety, or welfare” aren’t allowed on your lawn
•	Any weeds on your lawn had better not be higher than 1 foot, or the city will cut them for you and charge you for the service.

Subsection 33-23 [The ‘It’s Not the City’s Fault for Lack of Water’ Ordinance]:
The city shall not be liable for any failure or deficiency in the supply of water to consumers, whether occasioned by shutting off the water to make necessary repairs or connections, or for any other cause.

Subsection 21-142 [Piling on the Alcohol Abuse Laws]:
If you refuse to take a breathalyzer test [after you’ve been lawfully stopped by a cop and the cop has reasonable cause to believe you’re under the influence],
(a)	You’ll be advised that one will not be given without a court order
(b)	Your license will be taken away and destroyed
(c)	You’ll get 6 points on your record
(d)	If a court order happens, the results CAN be used against you for the purposes of future charges.