A. Adoption of Statutes: The City hereby adopts and makes applicable to the City the provisions of Texas Local Government Code, sections 362.001 through 362.003.
B. Authorization: The City hereby authorizes the Mayor or his successors in office to make provision for the regularly employed law enforcement officers of Alamo to assist any other county or municipality in the State when, in the opinion of the Mayor, there exists in such other county or municipality 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 (3) or more persons acting together without lawful authority or during time of natural disaster or man-made calamity.
C. Compensation and Benefits:
1. While any law enforcement officer regularly employed as such by the City is in the service of a county or other municipality pursuant to this Section, he shall be a peace officer of such county or other municipality and be under the command of the law enforcement officer therein who is in charge of that county or municipality as fully as though he were within the county or municipality where regularly employed and his qualification, respectively, for office where regularly employed shall constitute his qualification for office in such county or other municipality and no other oath, bond or compensation need be made.
2. Any law enforcement officer of Alamo who is ordered by the Mayor or the Chief of Police to perform police or peace duties outside the territorial limits of the City where he is regularly employed as such officer 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 Alamo where he is regularly employed and such officer shall also be paid for any reasonable expense of travel, food or lodging that he may incur while on duty outside the City limits.
3. All wages and disability payments, pension payments, damage to equipment and clothing, medical expense and expenses of travel, food and lodging shall be paid by the City. Upon making such payments, the City shall when it so requests be reimbursed by the county or other municipality whose authorized officials requested the services out of which the payments arose.
4. The City Finance Officer is hereby expressly authorized to make payments for the abovedescribed services of law enforcement officers of a county or any other city upon verification that such service was in fact rendered. (Ord. 1984, 2-21-84)