The city hereby adopts, in all respects, chapter 362 of Vernon’s
Texas Codes Annotated, Local Government Code.
(2001 Code, sec. 9.501)
The city, acting by and through its mayor, or mayor pro-tem,
or, in the absence or inability to act, the city manager, or in his
or 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.
(2001 Code, sec. 9.502)
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 Vernon’s Texas Codes Annotated, Local
Government Code, with the county sheriff’s department. 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
of the county.
(2001 Code, sec. 9.503)
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 is provided by chapter
362 of Vernon’s Texas Codes Annotated, Local Government Code.
(2001 Code, sec. 9.504)