The city, acting by and through its mayor, the mayor pro-tem
or, in the absence or inability to act, the city manager or, in his/her
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 man-made calamity.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)
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 section 362.002 of the Local Government Code with the cities
of the county and the county sheriff’s office. 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, and as authorized
by such mutual aid agreements approved by the respective governing
bodies.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)
Law enforcement officers so sent to another municipality or
county shall be in all things subject to the foregoing act 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
therein who is in charge in that city or county and, as provided in
said act, shall be vested with all the powers of a regular law enforcement
officer in such other county or municipality to which sent, and such
law enforcement officers of the city shall be considered under the
terms of the foregoing described act as being in compliance therewith
and 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, and the city shall
be reimbursed by the other county or municipality requesting the services
out of which such payments and expenses arose, as provided by state
law.
(Ordinance 1207 adopted 10/17/19)
