RESO CC 04/27/1971 - Authorizing administrative assistant or police chief to help in emergency RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT TO THE
MAYOR OR THE CHIEF OF POLICE OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS,
TO ASSIST ANY OTHER COUNTY OR MUNICIPALITY IN CIVIL EMERGENCIES,
NATURAL DISASTERS, OR ANY OTHER MAN-MADE CALAMITY.
WHEREAS, Article 999B, Revised Civil Statutes of
Texas, authorizes any County or Municipality by resolution to
make provision for or to authorize its Chief Administrative
Officer or the Chief of Police to make provision for use of
said City' s 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 civil emergency in such other County or Municipality, such
assistance is required to protect the health, life and property
of such other County or Municipality, its inhabitants, and the
visitors thereto, by reason of a state of civil emergency, and
WHEREAS, it is the desire of the City Council of the
City of Huntsville, Texas, to render such assistance under such
circumstances upon request by other counties or municipalities
and to authorize the Administrative Assistant to the Mayor of
the City of Huntsville, Texas, or the Chief of Police of Hunts-
ville, Texas, to act upon any such request and to dispatch law
enforcement officers of the City of Huntsville, Texas, to render
such assistance under the circumstances as stated;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of
the City of Huntsville, Texas, assembled in regular session on
this the 27th day of April, 1971, that the Administrative Assistant
to the Mayor or the Chief of Police of the City of Huntsville, Texas,
either or both, be, and the same are hereby authorized to act upon
the request of any official of any other County or Municipality
who request assistance in times of civil emergency and to render
such assistance as authorized under the provisions of Article 999$,
Revised Civil Statutes of the State of Texas.
MOVED AND ADOPTED on this the 27th day of April, 1971,
in Open Council.
LA LOCK, JR. ayor
ATTEST:
City Secretary