[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners
of the Borough of Longport 2-15-1984. 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, plane crash
or other natural causes, as well as national or State of New Jersey
emergencies, and in order to ensure that preparations of this Borough
will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally to provide
for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health, safely
and to preserve the lives and property of the residents of this Borough,
it is hereby found and declared to be necessary to:
A.Â
Create an Emergency Management Organization;
B.Â
Provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other cities
to cooperate with the state government with respect to carrying out
emergency functions; and
C.Â
To create and test an Emergency Operations Plan for
all divisions of Borough government in the event of one of the aforementioned
disasters.
It is further declared to be the purpose of
this chapter and the policy of this Borough that all emergency functions
of the state government, including its various departments and agencies,
of the county government, and of the other municipalities and private
agencies of every type be included in the Emergency Operations Plan
so that a comprehensive plan can be developed to make use of all available
resources in the event that a disaster does occur.
It is further declared to be the purpose of
this chapter and the policy of this Borough to organize an Emergency
Management Organization, in conformity with the Civil Defense Act
as directed by Public Law 1942, Chapter 251, as amended. The name
of this organization shall be as follows: Department of Police Special
Services Bureau Emergency Management Section.
The Mayor of this Borough shall be responsible
for the appointment of a qualified Director of this section pursuant
to state and federal guidelines as of the date of his or her appointment.
It shall be the responsibility of the Director to appoint a Deputy
Director and staff as may be needed to effectively operate this section.
It is the responsibility of the staff, under the direction of the
Director and Deputy Director, to create and test the Emergency Operations
Plan and to be prepared to activate it whenever necessary. Such staff
shall include a Secretary who shall coordinate all the activities
as directed and to work under the Director and his Deputies.
It shall be the responsibility of this organization
to carry out and enforce such orders, rules and regulations, as issued
by the Mayor or the chain of command as outlined by the Emergency
Operations Plan, under the authority of this chapter. The Organization
shall have available for inspection all such orders, and rules and
regulations made by the Mayor or the chain of command, or under their
authority.
The organization shall have a fully-equipped
Emergency Operations Center which shall be ready to coordinate all
Borough functions in the event of a disaster. It shall also have an
alternate operations center planned in the event that the first shall
be damaged or unusable.
