Pursuant to the provisions of article 999b, Vernon’s Texas
Civil Statutes, the city administrator and/or chief of police are
authorized to assign the regularly employed law enforcement personnel
of his department to assist any other county or 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 proper
authority, and when, in the opinion of such proper authority, a need
exists in such other county or municipality 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 (3) or more persons
acting together or without lawful authority, or during time of natural
disaster or man-made calamity.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Sec. 2-4)
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.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Sec. 2-5)
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.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Sec. 2-6)
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.
(1979 Code of Ordinances, Chapter 2, Sec. 2-7)
