The city, acting by and through its mayor, mayor pro tem, or in their absence or inability to act, the city manager or in his 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 county or municipality, 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 or more persons acting together without lawful authority, or during the time of natural or manmade calamity; and such law enforcement officers, so sent to another county or municipality shall be in all things subject to the foregoing act and such officer 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 Texas Local Government Code ch. 362, 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 other compensations while performing police duties outside 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 Texas Local Government Code ch. 362. Such other county or municipality shall save and hold harmless the city from any claim or liability resulting from the activities of said law enforcement officers while serving under the command of the chief law enforcement officer of such other county or municipality.
(Prior Code, § 1-18; Ord. of 3-24-1970)
State law reference(s)—States of emergency, Texas Government Code ch. 433.