Because of the existing and increasing possibility of disasters of unprecedented
size and destructiveness resulting from fire, flood, earthquake, hurricane,
tropical storm, aircraft accident, rail accident or other natural or man-made
causes and in order to ensure that preparations of this City 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 this City, it is hereby found and declared
to be necessary to:
A. Create an Office of Emergency Management.
B. 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. 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. Establish an emergency operating center.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy
of this City to organize an office of Emergency Management in conformity with
the Civil Defense Act as directed by P.L. 1942, c. 251, as amended. The name
of this office shall be as follows: Linwood Office of Emergency Management.
The Mayor of this City shall be responsible with the consent of the
Common Council for the appointment of a qualified Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator
of this Office pursuant to state guidelines as of the date of his/her appointment.
It shall be the responsibility of this Office to carry out and enforce
such orders, rules and regulations as issued under a proclamation of a local
state of emergency by the Coordinator. The Office shall have available for
inspection all such orders and rules and regulations made by the Coordinator.
The office shall have a fully equipped emergency operating center which
shall 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.