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ORDINANCE NO. 698
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR INTERLOCAL ASSISTANCE OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS
DURIlVG EMERGENCIES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS:
WHEREAS, the Legislature of the State of Texas has duly enacted Senate
Bill 233, said Bill having been enacted by the Senate of the State of Texas
on March 24, 1969, and by the House of Representatives of the State of Texas
on April 2, 1969, at the regular session of the Legislature of the State of
Texas, and thereafter signed by the Governor of the State of Texas, providing
that any County or Municipality by resolution or order of its governing body
to make provision for, or authorize its Mayor or Chief Administrative Officer,
Chief of Police, or Marshall to make provision for, its regularly employed
law enforcement officers to assist any other County or Municipality, when in
the opinion of the Mayor, or other officer authorized to declare a state of
emergency, in such other County or Municipality, there exists in such other
County or Municipality a need for 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 (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful
authority, or during such time of natural disaster or man-made calamity; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of College Station acting as a
Legislative Body, is of the opinion that a resolution should be adopted by
� such governing body to make provision for or authorize the City Manager of
the City of College Station to direct the Chief of Police of said -City s.of College
Station to detail regularly employed officers of the Police Department of
the City of College Station 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 of Municipality the 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, and characterized by the use of force
or violence or threat thereof within the meaning of Senate Bill 233, which
is now in full force and effect, and a request for additional law enforcement
-' officers is made to the City Manager of the City of College Station by such
Mayor or officer authorized to declare a state of emergency in such other
County or Municipality; Now, Therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLLEGE STATION:
SECTION 1. That the City Manager be and he is hereby authorized to
direct the Chief of Police of the City of College Station to detail regularly
employed law enforcement officers of the College Station 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
a need for the services of additional law enforcement officers to protect the
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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 or without lawful authority, or during time of natural
disaster or man-made calamity, and a request for additional law enforcement
officers is made to the City Manager of the City of College Station by such
Mayor or officer authorized to declare a state of emergency in such other
County or Municipality.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 28th day of September, 1970.
APPROVED:
Mayor
ATTEST:
Ci Secretary