The City of Panhandle hereby adopts the Acts of the 1969, 61st Legislature, Page 201, Chapter 81 (codified as Article 999b, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Statutes) and makes provision of such law applicable to said City of Panhandle.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.2)
The City of Panhandle hereby authorized the mayor or his successor or successors in office to make provision for the regularly employed law enforcement officers of the City of Panhandle to assist any other county or municipality in the State of Texas when in the opinion of the mayor there exists in such other county or municipality a state of civil emergency and a need for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the health, life and property of such other county or 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 or morel persons acting together or without lawful authority, or acting time of natural disaster or manmade calamity.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.3)
While any law enforcement officer regularly employed as such by the City of Panhandle is in the service of a county or other municipality pursuant to this division, he shall be a peace officer of such county or other such municipality and shall be vested with all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer of said county or municipality. Any such officer shall be under the command of the law enforcement officer who is in charge of the law enforcement agency of that county or municipality being served as fully as though such officer where within the county or municipality of his regular employment, and his qualification for office in such county or municipality and no other oath, bond or compensation need be made.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.4)
Any law enforcement officer of the City of Panhandle who is ordered to perform the duties of a peace office outside the territorial limits of the City of Panhandle within the contemplation of this division shall be entitled to the same wage, salary, pension, and all other compensation, and all other rights for such service, including injury and death benefits, as if such service had been rendered with the City of Panhandle in the regular course of employment and such office shall be paid for any reasonable expense of travel, food or lodging that he may incur while on duty outside the limits of the City of Panhandle.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.5)
All wages and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense, and expenses of travel, food, and lodging incurred pursuant to the provisions of this division shall be paid by the City of Panhandle. Thereafter, the city shall, upon its request, be reimbursed by the county or municipality whose authorized officials requested the services out of which such payment and expenses arose.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.6)
The finance officer of the City of Panhandle is hereby expressly authorized to make payments for the above described services of law enforcement officers of a county or city upon verification that such service was in fact rendered.
(1993 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 1, Article 4, Sec. 1-40.7)