Section 142.012 - Overtime Compensation for Certain Police Department Officers and Civilian Employees(a) This section applies only to a municipality with a population of one million or more that has not adopted Chapter 143.(b) Subject to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (29 U.S.C. Section 201 et seq.), a municipality may but is not required to establish a system under which compensation is paid or compensatory time off is allowed for overtime worked by the following officers and employees of the municipality's police department: (1) a police officer who has a rank above the rank of captain and whose appointment to the officer's current rank was not based at least in part on the officer's performance on a competitive examination; or(2) a civilian who receives a salary greater than the lowest base salary that the municipality pays a captain and whose appointment to the civilian's current position was not based at least in part on the civilian's performance on a competitive examination.Tex. Loc. Gov't. Code § 142.012
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 928, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/2001.