The City Council does hereby appoint the City Manager, at his/her discretion, to send the regularly employed law enforcement officers to assist any other county or municipality when the Mayor or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency requests this assistance, and there exists in 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 o r more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during time of natural disaster or man-made calamity.
('78 Code, § 2-1)
Cross reference:
Emergency powers of Mayor, see Charter, § 3.06(c)
Statutory reference:
Authority for mutual assistance, see Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 362.002
Emergency powers of Mayor, see Tex. Loc. Gov't Code § 22.042