§ 14-2. Same—Authority of city officials to furnish assistance.

The city acting by and through its mayor, mayor pro tem or, in their absence or inability to act, the chief of police, may send or direct any of its regularly employed law enforcement officers to assist any county or other municipality when a request is received for assistance from the mayor or other officer authorized to declare a state of civil emergency in such other municipality or county, representing that there exists in such county or other municipality a need for additional law enforcement officers to protect health, life and property of such county or other municipality or its inhabitants, and the visitors thereof, by reason of riot, unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force and violence, or threat by three (3) or more persons acting together or without lawful authority, or during the time of natural or man-made calamity.