Pursuant to the provisions of Section 362.001-362.003, Local
Government Code, 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 property 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 man-made calamity.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 8.200,
Section 8.201)
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.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 8.200,
Section 8.202)
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.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 8.200,
Section 8.203)
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.
(1995 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 8.200,
Section 8.204)
