[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of
the City of Lowell 4-26-1988 as Ch. 6 of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950,
MGL Appendix C33, § 13-1 et seq., as now in force, shall
be applicable to any act or acts in amendment or continuation of or
substitution for Chapter 639.
There is hereby established in the City a Department
of Civil Defense. It shall be the function of the Department to have
charge of civil defense as defined in § 1, Chapter 639,
Acts of 1950, and to perform civil defense functions as authorized
or directed by such chapter or by any and all executive orders or
general regulations promulgated thereunder, and to exercise any authority
delegated to it by the Governor under Chapter 639.
A.
The Department of Civil Defense shall be under the
direction of a Director of Civil Defense, who shall be appointed by
the chief executive officer of the City. The Director shall have the
direct responsibility for the organization, administration and operation
of the Department, subject to the direction and control of the chief
executive officer of the City, and shall receive such salary as may
be fixed from time to time by the City Council. The Director may,
within the limits of the amount appropriated therefor, appoint such
experts, clerks and other assistants as the work of the Department
may require and may, with the approval of the chief executive officer,
remove them and may, within the limits of the appropriation, make
such expenditures as may be necessary to execute effectively the purposes
of Chapter 639 of the Acts of 1950.
B.
The Director shall also have the authority, subject
to the chief executive officer of the City, to appoint district coordinators
and may receive, on behalf of the City, services, equipment, supplies,
materials or funds by way of gift, grant or loan, for the purposes
of civil defense, offered by the federal government or any agency
or officer thereof or any person, subject to the terms of the offer
and the rules and regulations, if any, of the agency making the offer,
which services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of
gift, grant or loan have been accepted by the City Council. The Director
shall cause appropriate records to be kept of all matters relating
to such gifts, grants or loans.[1]
