The City of Pottsboro, Texas, acting by and through its mayor, mayor pro-tem or in the absence or inability to act, the city council or in case of 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 uses 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.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 4.00, Section 4.02)
The City of Pottsboro hereby provides that the police department of the City of Pottsboro, Texas, 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 Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, Local Government Code with the Grayson County Sheriff's Department.
Members of the police department of the City of Pottsboro shall have only such additional investigative authority in the corporate limits of such member cities and Grayson 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 of Grayson County.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 4.00, Section 4.03)
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 of Pottsboro 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 of Pottsboro, Texas, as though the same services were being rendered in the City of Pottsboro and the City of Pottsboro 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 of Pottsboro and the City of Pottsboro shall be reimbursed by the other county or municipality requesting the services out of which such payments and expenses arose, as is provided by the said Chapter 362 of Vernon's Texas Codes Annotated, Local Government Code.
(1996 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 8, Article 4.00, Section 4.04)