All provisions of the penal code and other statutes of the state defining misdemeanors and providing for punishment therefor, of which the city has jurisdiction, are hereby adopted as offenses against the city, punishable as provided in said statutes.
Pursuant to the provisions of article 999b, Revised Civil Statutes of Texas, 1925, as amended, the chief of police is authorized to assign the regularly employed law enforcement personnel of his department to assist any county or other municipality in this state, when a state of civil emergency in such county or municipality has been declared by proper authority, upon request by such proper authority, and when, in the opinion of such proper authority, a need exists in such county or other municipality for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the health, life and property of such county or other municipality, its inhabitants, and the visitors thereto, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence, or threat thereof by three (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during time of natural disaster or manmade calamity.
Whenever any law enforcement officer of any other county or municipality is assigned to this city, under authority of an order adopted by the governing body of such other county or municipality, to assist under circumstances as described above which may exist in this city, such officer shall be a peace officer of this city and shall be under the command of the chief of police of this city while so assigned and he shall have all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer of this city as fully as though he were within the county or municipality where regularly employed, and his qualifications, respectively, for office where regularly employed shall constitute his qualification for office in this city, and no other oath, bond or compensation shall be made.
When any law enforcement officer of this city is ordered by proper authority to perform peace officer duties outside the territorial limits of this city, he shall be entitled to the same wage, salary, pension, and all other compensation and all other rights for such service, including injury or death benefits, the same as though the service had been rendered within the limits of this city; and he shall also be paid for any reasonable expenses of travel, food or lodging, as well as for damage to equipment and clothing and medical expenses, which he may incur while on duty outside such limits, or while traveling to or from such assignment.
When any law enforcement officer is assigned to this city from another county or city under the circumstances described above, and upon request of the proper authority of this city, this city will, upon proper request, reimburse the county or city furnishing the services of such law enforcement officer for his actual expenses of travel, food, lodging and for such cost or damage to equipment and clothing resulting from the services of such law enforcement officer in this city and for which the county or city where he is regularly employed has paid.
(a) 
No person, firm or corporation shall connect any alarm system into the telephone system of any department of the City of Brenham, Texas, except that any firm or corporation may, with the prior consent of the city manager of the City of Brenham, Texas, connect an alarm system into such telephone system of a department of the City of Brenham, Texas, provided such connection is in the public interest of the persons of the City of Brenham, Texas.
(b) 
Any person, firm or corporation which shall violate the provisions of this section, or shall fail to comply therewith or with any of the requirements thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine, and upon conviction of any such violation shall be fined in any sum of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00); and each day any such violation shall be permitted to exist shall constitute a separate and distinct offense.
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance adopted May 5, 1976, secs. 1, 2, did not specifically amend the Code, hence inclusion as sec. 17-6 was at the editor’s discretion.
(Ordinance adopted 8/17/76, sec. 1; Ordinance adopted 5/4/76, sec. 2)
(a) 
Definitions.
“Aircraft” means any contrivance now known or hereafter invented, used or designed for flight in the air.
(b) 
Prohibited acts; exceptions.
From and after the effective date hereof, no person may take off, land, or maneuver an aircraft, including heavier than air and lighter than air, on a public highway, road, street, park, or other public property, other than at a designated airport within the corporate limits of the City of Brenham, Texas, except when it is necessary to prevent serious injury to a person or property; provided, however, nothing herein shall prohibit any operation of said aircraft on a public highway, road, street, park, or other public property during or within a reasonable time after an emergency.
(c) 
Penalty for violation.
Any person, firm, or corporation which shall violate the provisions of this section, or shall fail to comply therewith, or with any requirements thereof, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be liable to a fine, and upon conviction of any such violation shall be fined in the sum of not more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).
Editor’s note(s)–Ordinance adopted Aug. 18, 1981, not specifying the manner of codification, secs. 1–3 thereof have been added as sec. 17-7 at the editor’s discretion.
(Ordinance adopted 8/18/81, secs. 1–3)
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Editor’s note–Former section pertaining to noise nuisances, was repealed and deleted in its entirety by Ordinance O-23-019 adopted 8/3/2023. Prior to the deletion, this section derived from the following: Ordinance adopted 8/21/03, secs. I–III and Ordinance O-12-003, sec. 1, adopted 3/22/12. These provisions can now be found in chapter 17, article V.
Editor’s note(s)–Section 17-9, which pertained to fees for copy/reproduction of records has been deleted as being superseded by current sec. 2-19.