Pursuant to the provisions of N.J.S.A. App.
A:9-41, the Township of Lower does hereby create a Local Defense/Emergency
Management Council which shall establish an adequate organization
to assist in supervising and conducting the civil defense and disaster
control activities of the Township. The Local Defense/Emergency Management
Council shall assist the Township of Lower in establishing the various
local volunteer agencies needed to meet the requirements of all local
civilian defense and disaster control activities in accordance with
the rules and regulations established by the Governor of the State
of New Jersey.
[Amended 3-18-2019 by Ord. No. 2019-04]
A. Emergency
Management Coordinator. The Mayor shall appoint a Municipal Emergency
Management Coordinator from among the residents of the Township. The
Emergency Management Coordinator shall serve for a term of three years.
As a condition of appointment, and the right to continue for the full
term of appointment, each Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator
shall have successfully completed at the time of his/her appointment,
or within one year immediately following his/her appointment, the
current approved home study course and the basic emergency management
workshop. The failure of any Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator
to fulfill such requirement within the period prescribed shall disqualify
the Coordinator from continuing in the office of Coordinator and thereupon
a vacancy in said office shall be deemed to have been created.
B. Members
of the Emergency Management Council. The Local Defense/Emergency Management
Council shall be composed of seven members, including the Emergency
Management Coordinator, who shall be appointed by the Mayor and shall
hold office at the will and pleasure of Council. The Emergency Management
Coordinator shall be a member and shall serve as Chairman of the Local
Defense/Emergency Management Council. At least one of the seven members
of the Local Defense/Emergency Management Council shall represent
each of the following five groups:
(2) Police,
fire, emergency management, first-aid, health, environmental, hospital
or public works.
(3) Broadcast
or print media.
(5) Owners/operators
of facilities subject to the requirements of the Superfund Amendments
and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA Title III).
It shall be lawful for the members of the Local
Defense/Emergency Management Council to also be members of other agencies
created because of any emergency.