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228. MUTUAL AID LAW ENFORCEMENT TASK FORCE AGREEMENT This is a Mutual Aid Law Enforcement Task Force Agreement between the Hays County Sheriffs Department, San Marcos Police Department, Southwest Texas State University Police Department and the Kyle Police Department. 1. Purpose 1.01 All of the above listed entities are authorized to commission peace officers with all the powers, privileges, and immunities authorized by law. 1.02 The purpose of this Mutual Aid Law Enforcement Task Force Agreement is to form an Alcohol Enforcement Unit among the agencies listed to enforce the Alcoholic Beverage Code laws that pertain to minors, including the laws that prohibit sale or furnishing alcohol to minors. 2. Term 2.01 This Agreement will be effective from the date upon which this agreement is fmally executed by all of the duly authorized officials of each participant in the Alcohol Enforcement Unit. The Agreement will renew each year on the anniversary of the effective date, and continue in effect until rescinded by an official act of one of the parties to this Agreement and until ten days written notice of such action is given to the other parties. 3. Authority and Areas of Operation 3.01 The parties will have authority to investigate and enforce violations of the provisions of the Alcoholic Beverage Code that pertain to minors, including the laws that prohibit sale or furnishing alcohol to minors, throughout Hays County and the City of San Marcos (including the portion located in Caldwell County). 3.02 Law enforcement officers participating in this agreement may make arrests outside the county or municipality in which the officer is employed but within the area covered by the agreement. The law enforcement agencies of the area where the arrest is made shall be notified of the arrest v.ithout delay, and the notified agency shall make available the notice of arrest in the same manner as if the arrest were made by a member of that agency. 3.03 While a law enforcement officer is in the service of another county or municipality under this Agreement, the officer is a peace officer of that county or municipality and is under the command of the law enforcement officer who is in charge in that county or municipality. The officer has all the powers of a regular law enforcement officer of that county or municipality as fully as if the officer were in the county or municipality where regularly employed.