HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution - 032670D - COL To Provide Assistance In Times Of Emergency - 03_26_1970eX r
r ') RESOLUTION
% WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Lubbock has determined that
emergency situations arise when assistance is needed by municipalities or countie
and
WHEREAS, the legislature of the State of Texas has enacted legislation where
by a city or county could provide assistance to a city or county when such city or
county by its authorized official requests assistance in the face of such emergency
NOW THEREFORE
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LUBBOCK:
THAT the City Manager BE and is hereby authorized to provide the assistance
of the regularly, employed, law enforcement officers of the City of Lubbock to any
municipality or county requesting such assistance through its duly authorized
officer to aid in coping with situations where there exists in such other county or
municipality a need for the services of additional law enforcement officers to pro-
tect the health, life, and property of such other county or municipality, its
inhabitants, and the visitors thereto, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly charac-
terized 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.
The assistance offered hereby shall be in accordance with the provisions of
Article 999b of the Civil Statutes of the State of Texas as enacted by the 61st
Legislature of the State of Texas, Acts 1969.
Passed by the City Council this 26th da:
ATTEST:
Laven'a Lowe, City S cretary-»Treasurer
APPROVED:
Fred O, Senter, Jr. , City Atto ey