The city hereby adopts V.T.C.A., Local Government Code, chapter
362.
(2001 Code, sec. 33.40)
The city, acting by and through its mayor or mayor pro-tem,
or in their absence or inability to act, the chief of police, may
send or direct any of its regularly employed law enforcement officers
to assist any other county or municipality when a request is received
for assistance from the mayor or other officer authorized to declare
a state of civil emergency in such other municipality or county, representing
that there exists in such other county or municipality a need for
additional law enforcement officers to protect health, life and property
of such other county or municipality or its inhabitants and the visitors
thereof, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the
use of force and violence, or threat by three (3) or more persons
acting together or without lawful authority, or during the time of
natural or manmade calamity.
(2001 Code, sec. 33.41)
The city hereby provides that the police department of the city
shall be and is hereby designated as a participating member and agency
of a mutual aid law enforcement task force to cooperate in accordance
with V.T.C.A., Local Government Code, section 362.002, with the county
sheriff’s department. Members of the police department of the
city shall have only such additional investigative authority in the
corporate limits of such member cities and the county as shall be
from time to time prescribed by the mayor or chief of police of such
cities and the county judge or sheriff.
(2001 Code, sec. 33.42)
Law enforcement officers sent to another municipality or county
shall be in all things subject to the provisions of V.T.C.A., Local
Government Code, chapter 362, and such officer or officers shall be
and become peace officers of such other county or municipality under
the command of the law enforcement officer who is in charge in that
city or county and shall be vested with all the powers of a regular
law enforcement officer in such other county or municipality to which
sent. Such law enforcement officers of the city shall be entitled
to the same wage, salary, pension, and all other compensations while
performing police duties outside of the territorial limits of the
city as though the same services were being rendered in the city,
and the city shall pay to such officers such wages, salary, pension,
and other benefits, together with medical, travel, food, lodging,
and other expenses incurred on account of performing services outside
of the territorial limits of the city. The city shall be reimbursed
by the other county or municipality requesting the services from which
such payments and expenses arose, as is provided by V.T.C.A., Local
Government Code, chapter 362.
(2001 Code, sec. 33.43)
