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67 MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING This is a memorandum of understanding between the City of San Marcos, Texas (City) and Southwest Texas State University (SWT) relating to cooperation and coordination of police services. This memorandum of understanding supersedes the previous memorandum of understanding adopted by the City on February 22, 1988. 1. Purpose 1.01. Both the City and SWT are authorized to commission peace officers with all the powers, privileges and immunities authorized by law. 1.02. The purpose ofthis memorandum of understanding is to promote effective and efficient police service within the City of San Marcos and on the campus of Southwest Texas State University. The parties intend to provide for mutual aid, define primary territorial responsibility, and coordinate services between their police departments. Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to limit the jurisdiction, powers, privileges or immunities of the parties within their respective jurisdictions. 2. Term 2.01. This agreement will become effective July 1, 1999, and will continue in effect until either party terminates the agreement by giving the other party ten days' written notice. 3. Authority and Areas of Operation 3.01. The City's Police Department has law enforc~ment authority over all areas within the City's corporate limits, including those areas owned or controlled by SWT. SWT's peace officers have authority over all areas within Hays County including those areas within the City's corporate limits. 3.02. Ordinarily SWT's officers will confine their activities to the property owned, leased, or controlled by SWT and to streets adjacent to such property. Likewise, ordinarily the City's officers will confine their activities to areas within the city not owned, leased, or controlled by SWT. However, officers from either entity may operate within the usual areas of the other when responding to a request for assistance or while in the performance of their duties. 3.03. The City specifically authorizes SWT's peace officers to enforce ordinances found in the following chapters of the City Code: (a) (b) Chapter 6: Chapter 58: Animals. Public Facilities, Parks, and Recreation.