[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the City of Margate
City 3-8-1990 by Ord. No. 1990-5. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Because of the existing and increasing possibility of disasters of unprecedented
size and destructiveness resulting from fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane,
tropical storm, aircraft accident, boat accident or other natural or man-made
causes, and in order to ensure that preparations of the City of Margate will
be adequate to deal with such disasters and generally to provide for the common
defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety and to preserve
the lives and property of the residents of the City of Margate, it is hereby
found and declared to be necessary to:
A.Â
Create an Office of Emergency Management.
B.Â
Provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other cities
within the State of New Jersey and to cooperate with the County and State
Offices of Emergency Management.
C.Â
Create and test an emergency operating plan for all divisions
of City government and all volunteer organizations in the event of one of
the aforementioned disasters.
D.Â
Establish an emergency operating center.
A.Â
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter
and the policy of this City that all functions of municipal government, as
well as volunteer and private agencies of every type, be included in the emergency
operating plan so that a comprehensive plan can be developed to make use of
all available resources in the event that a disaster does occur.
B.Â
It shall be the responsibility of the Coordinator to
create and test the emergency operating plan and be prepared to activate it
whenever necessary.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy
of the City government to organize an Office of Emergency Management in conformity
with the authority as set forth in the statutes of the State of New Jersey.
The name of the Office shall be "Margate City Office of Emergency Management."
The Mayor of the City shall be responsible for the appointment of a
qualified Coordinator of this Office, pursuant to state guidelines, as of
the date of his or her appointment. The Mayor of the City may appoint two
Deputy Coordinators to assist the Coordinator and to act in his or her place
if not available.
The Coordinator may appoint a staff which will be representative of
the various departments of the City, as well as other private and public agencies,
to assist with the emergency operating plan as well as staffing the emergency
operating center, when activated.
It shall be the responsibility of the Office of Emergency Management
to carry out and enforce such orders, rules and regulations as issued under
a proclamation of local state of emergency by the Commission of the City of
Margate and the Coordinator. The Office shall have available all such orders
and rules and regulations as promulgated by the Coordinator and the Commission.
The Office shall have a fully equipped emergency operating center which
will be ready to coordinate all City functions in the event of an emergency.
It shall also have an alternate emergency operating center in the event that
the first shall be damaged or unusable.
Violation of or failure to comply with any of the provisions of this
chapter or the rules and regulations as promulgated by the Commission of the
City of Margate, upon conviction, shall be punishable by a fine not to exceed
$1,000 or by imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed 90
days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
