The term “private guard,” as used herein, shall mean any person, firm, or corporation who furnishes or agrees to furnish services of enforcing the parking regulations and issuing summons for parking violations in shopping centers, office centers, or medical centers within the city.
(1996 Code, sec. 4.401)
No person, firm, or corporation shall engage in the business of a private guard unless he has been commissioned by the city. Such commission shall be held by the individual guards doing private guard duty if a firm or corporation is involved.
(1996 Code, sec. 4.402)
Every person who wishes to engage in private guard duties shall make application to the chief of police for a commission. The application shall be signed by the individual or, if a corporation, by a duly authorized officer, and if a partnership, by all partners. Such application shall contain, among other things, the following, which shall be sworn to:
(1) 
The trade name of the organization if other than an individual.
(2) 
The address of the organization or individual.
(3) 
The ownership of the organization.
(4) 
Where the guard duty will be performed.
(5) 
Whether the applicant has been convicted of a felony.
(6) 
The age of the applicant.
(1996 Code, sec. 4.403)
(a) 
Security personnel of Southern Methodist University are authorized to issue citations for parking violations on fire apparatus access roads on the private streets and ways on the campus to the same extent to which private guards commissioned by the city are authorized under this article.
(b) 
Such parking citations shall take the form determined by the department of public safety of Southern Methodist University, provided they meet the requirements of the Texas Education Code.
(c) 
The campus security personnel authorized to issue citations for fire lane violations shall be designated in writing by the chief of the SMU department of public safety to the chief of police of the city and shall be commissioned in the same manner as are private guards under this article, provided that no fee shall be charged for such commission.
(d) 
Nothing in this article is intended to make campus security personnel officers of the city, nor to authorize them to perform any police functions other than on the private streets and areas of the campus, nor to issue citations for traffic violations on the public streets and highways running through or adjacent to university property. Such security officers remain under the control and jurisdiction of the university, even while issuing citations for fire lane violations as authorized hereby. Upon issuance of a citation and filing in the municipal court, such parking violations will be handled in the same manner as other parking violations in municipal court.
(1996 Code, sec. 4.412)