§ 32.042 RESPONSIBILITIES OF CHIEF OF POLICE.

   The Chief of Police shall at all times be responsible for the conduct of the Police Department and shall devote all of his or her time and energy to the discharge of the duties of his or her office.

(1998 Code, § 70-3)

§ 32.043 OATH OF POLICE OFFICERS.

   Each police officer of the city shall take the constitutional oath of office before entering upon the discharge of the duties of his or her office.

(1998 Code, § 70-4)

§ 32.044 DUTIES OF POLICE.

   The officers and employees of the Police Department are charged with the duties of preserving the public peace, detecting and preventing crime, arresting offenders, protecting the rights of persons and property, preserving order at elections, public meetings and public places, preventing and removing, if possible, nuisances on and in all public streets, highways, alleys, waters and other places, the enforcement of the penal code of the state and the penal provisions of this code and other ordinances of the city, and performing and discharging such other duties as are now or may hereafter be imposed upon them by the laws of the state or by the ordinances of the city.

(1998 Code, § 70-5)

§ 32.045 ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT.

   (A)   A peace officer or any other person may, without a warrant, arrest an offender when the offense is committed in his or her presence or within his or her view, if the offense is one classed as a felony or as an offense against the public peace.

   (B)   A peace officer may arrest an offender without a warrant for any offense committed in his or her presence or within his or her view.

(1998 Code, § 70-6)

Statutory reference:

   Arrest without warrant, see Tex. C.C.P. Art. 14.01 et seq.

§ 32.046 SEARCHING OF PRISONERS; DISPOSITION OF WEAPONS AND VALUABLES TAKEN FROM PRISONERS.

   It shall be the duty of every police officer to search every prisoner apprehended by him or her and placed in jail, and the prisoner shall be so searched in the presence of another person when practicable to do so. All weapons and valuables shall be taken from the prisoner and placed under lock for safekeeping until such time as the judge of the Municipal Court orders their release to the owner thereof.

(1998 Code, § 70-7)

§ 32.047 RECORD OF COMMITMENTS AND PRISONERS.

   The Chief of Police shall keep or cause to be kept in his or her office a record of all commitments issued and delivered to him or her, to be designated the record of commitments and prisoners. This record shall show the case number, the name of the defendant, the nature of the offense, the date of commitment, the amount of fine and costs assessed, the amount of fine and costs collected, the date of release of prisoners and the reason therefor. In the column of this record providing for entering the reason for release shall be stated the disposition of the case.

(1998 Code, § 70-8)

§ 32.048 PAYMENT OF FINES AND COSTS; PRISONER LABOR AUTHORIZED.

   Every person upon whom a fine or a fine and costs shall be imposed by the Municipal Court for the violation of any law of the state, provision of this code or ordinance of the city, and who is unable to pay or fails to pay the fine or the fine and costs imposed, shall be committed to the jail of the city or the county until the fine or the fine and costs shall be paid or satisfied by imprisonment. Every person so committed to jail may be required to work upon the public streets or upon any public work of the city. All fines or fines and costs shall be satisfied by rating the imprisonment at $50 per day if not worked or $200 per day if worked.

(1998 Code, § 70-9) (Ord. 13-39, passed 9-4-2013)

§ 32.049 SUPERVISION AND HOURS OF PRISONER LABOR.

   Every prisoner who shall be required to labor, under the provisions of § 32.048 of this chapter shall do so under the supervision of the Chief of Police or some person detailed by the Chief of Police for that purpose. The person so convicted shall not be required to work more than eight full hours during one day.

(1998 Code, § 70-10)