§ 34-21. Created; general duties.  


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  • There is hereby created a police department, which together with its officers and employees, is charged with the duties of preserving the public peace; detecting and preventing crimes; arresting violators of the law; protecting the rights of persons and property; preserving the peace at all public meetings and public places; preventing and removing, whenever possible, all nuisances on or in the streets, highways, alleys, waters, and all other places; regulating and controlling vehicular and pedestrian traffic on the streets and alleys; investigating traffic accidents and determining the cause and responsibility for such accidents; enforcing the Texas Penal Code; enforcing the penal ordinances of the city, and performing and discharging such other duties as are herein or which may hereafter be imposed upon it or them or any of them by the laws of the state, by the ordinances of the city, by the mayor or by the city council.

(Code 1968, § 34-1; Ord. No. 04-1075, § 10, 10-20-04; Ord. No. 2011-108, § 7, 2-9-2011)