Article
I. IN GENERAL
II. DEPARTMENT
III. ABANDONED OR UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
Charter reference:
Council to provide by ordinance for establishment and regulation of department of police, see Ch. XI, § 1
Cross-reference:
Administration generally, see Ch. 2
General penalty for code violations, see § 1-6
Motor vehicles and traffic, see Ch. 22
Offenses and miscellaneous provisions, see Ch. 23
Statutory reference:
Authority to provide for police department, see Tex. Local Government Code Ch. 341
Section
Article I: In General
27-1 Authority to provide law enforcement services to other municipalities
27-2 Police identification number keeper register
27-3 Police reserve force
27-4—27-20 Reserved
Article II: Department
27-21—27-23 Reserved
27-24 Police appointees
27-25 Police officer selection procedure; oath
27-26 Appointment of special officers
27-27 Powers and duties generally; city jail
27-28 Assignment pay; bilingual personnel
27-29 Community development officers
27-30 Reserved
27-31 Assignment pay; traffic investigation unit
27-32 Assignment pay—Rangemaster of police department weapons range
27-33 Assignment pay—Field training officers
27-34 Shift differential pay
27-35 Reserved
27-36—27-40 Reserved
Article III: Abandoned or Unclaimed Property
27-41 Disposition of unclaimed property
27-42 List of saleable property; delivery of property to purchasing agent
27-43 Notice of sale; assignment of property to city departments
27-44 Place, hour of auction; non-cash sales
27-45 Conduct of auction; statement of articles sold, price bid and paid; delivery of proceeds to treasurer
27-46 Disposition of funds
27-47 City officers, employees not to submit bids or purchase property
27-48 Penalty for violation
(a) Except where the context clearly indicates to the contrary, the words
MUNICIPALITY and LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER are defined as follows, for the purposes of this section.
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER. Any police officer, sheriff or deputy sheriff, constable or deputy constable, marshal or deputy marshal.
MUNICIPALITY. Any city or town, including home rule city or city operating under the general law or special charter.
(b) The chief of police or his or her duly authorized assistant chief is hereby authorized to detail regularly employed law enforcement officers of the city police department to assist any other county or municipality when, in the opinion of the mayor or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency in such other county or municipality, there exists in such other county or municipality, 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 visitors thereto, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence or threat thereof by three or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during a time of natural disaster or human-made calamity, and a request for additional law enforcement officers is made to the city’s chief of police by the mayor or officer authorized to declare a state of emergency in such other county or municipality.
(c) While any law enforcement officer regularly employed as such in the city is in the service of another county or municipality pursuant to this section, he or she shall be a peace officer of such other county or municipality and be under the command of the law enforcement officer therein who is in charge in that county or municipality, with all of the powers of a regular law enforcement officer in such other county or municipality, as fully as though he or she were within the city where regularly employed, and his or her qualifications for office in the city shall constitute his or her qualifications for office in such other county or municipality and no other oath, bond or compensation need be made.
(d) Any law enforcement officer who is ordered by the chief of police to perform police and peace duties outside the territorial limits of the city shall be entitled to receive the same wage, salary, pension, all other compensation and all other rights for such service, including injury or death benefits, the same as though the services had been rendered within the limits of the city where he or she is regularly employed, and he or she shall also be paid for any reasonable expenses of travel, food or lodging which he or she may incur while on duty outside such limits.
(e) Unless otherwise expressly agreed to by the city pursuant to a law enforcement interlocal assistance agreement duly executed by the city and other counties or municipalities, all wages and disability payments, pension payments, payments for damage to equipment and clothing, medical expenses and expenses of travel, food and lodging shall be paid by the city and shall be reimbursed by the county or municipality whose authorized official requested the services.
(1964 Code, § 29A-12) (Ord. 6597, §§ 1—5, passed 12-13-1971; Ord. 8433, § 1, passed 9-19-1981; Ord. 9029, § 1, passed 2-7-1984; Ord. 20678-03-2013, § 1, passed 3-26-2013)
Statutory reference:
Interlocal assistance, see V.A.C.S. Art. 999b
(a) There is hereby created a police identification number keeper register which shall be maintained by the police department of the city for the purpose of registering and recording identification numbers which have been assigned by the police department to private individuals or businesses in the city for use in identifying their articles of personal property for protection against loss, theft or burglary and as a means of identification and recovery of such items if lost or stolen. Participation in the police identification number keeper program shall be on a voluntary basis and at the option of the citizen.
(b) As used in this section, the term
POLICE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER shall mean a number or a combination of digits and letters which has been assigned by the police department of the city to a particular person or business for the purpose of identifying articles of personal property, which number shall have been recorded and registered in the police identification number keeper register, and which has been permanently inscribed, etched, affixed or attached to an item of personal property by the owner for the purpose of identifying same.
(c) It shall be unlawful for any person to alter, change, deface, erase or mutilate, for the purpose and intent of changing the identity, any police identification number which has been permanently inscribed, etched, affixed or attached to any article of personal property by the owner for the purpose of identification. It shall also be unlawful for any person to have in his or her possession any article of personal property, knowing that the police identification number placed on same by the owner for the purpose and intent of identification has been altered, changed, defaced, erased or mutilated, for the purpose and intent of changing the identity of such article of personal property.
(d) Any person or any agent or employee thereof who violates any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided in § 1-6 of this code.
(1964 Code, § 29A-13) (Ord. 6639, §§ 1—4, passed 3-6-1972; Ord. 8433, § 1, passed 9-19-1981)
(a) The city council hereby provides for the establishment, training, equipping and maintenance of a volunteer police reserve force (the “reserve force”).
(b) The qualifications and standards of training required of the members of the reserve force shall be consistent with those qualifications and standards of training promulgated by the Texas commission on law enforcement officer standards and training for reserve peace officers.
(c) The chief of police shall appoint the members of the reserve force. Members shall serve at the chief’s discretion and without compensation.
(d) The chief of police may call any or all members of the reserve force into service at any time the chief considers it necessary to have additional officers to preserve the peace and enforce the law.
(e) Members of the reserve force shall serve as peace officers during the actual discharge of their official duties.
(f) An appointment to the reserve force must be approved by the city council before the person appointed may carry a weapon or otherwise act as a peace officer. After the appointment is approved, the person appointed may carry a weapon only when authorized to do so by the chief of police and only when discharging official duties as a peace officer.
(g) Reserve police officers may act only in a supplementary capacity to the regular police force and may not assume the full-time duties of regular police officers without complying with the requirements for regular police officers.
(1964 Code, § 29A-14) (Ord. 7452, § 1, passed 12-20-1976; Ord. 8433, § 1, passed 9-19-1981; Ord. 13898, § 1, passed 8-17-1999)
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