Sec. 107.82. ASSISTANCE TO CITY POLICE

(a) The board of regents and the city council of Denton may enter into written agreements, authorized by resolution of each governing body, to authorize the regular employed peace officers of the university to assist the peace officers of the city in enforcing the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city at any location in the city.

(b) To be valid, an agreement under Subsection (a) of this section must be approved by the attorney general.

(c) While acting pursuant to the agreement in Subsection (a) above and when such act is outside the property of the university or outside any public street running through, adjacent to, or within property owned or occupied and controlled by the university, the peace officers of the university are under the jurisdiction and command of the chief of police of Denton.

(d) Neither the state nor the university is liable for actions of a campus police officer acting under the jurisdiction and command of the chief of police of Denton.

(e) The university shall have jurisdiction over its personnel and students upon property owned by the university to the extent that it may (1) assign and regulate parking spaces for its use and charge and collect appropriate fees for parking and improper parking; (2) prohibit parking where it deems necessary; (3) set and collect fees for and remove vehicles parked in violation of its rules and regulations or the laws of the State of Texas.

Added by Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 892, ch. 317, Sec. 2, eff. Aug. 31, 1981.