[Ord. 799, 2/19/1991, § 1]
This Part shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency
Management Services Ordinance."
[Ord. 799, 2/19/1991, § 2]
The following words and phrases when used in this Part shall
have, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, the meanings
given them in this Section:
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
Borough of Bridgeville, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania Emergency Management Council. "Council"
shall not be confused with reference to "Borough Council," which refers
to the Borough Council of the Borough of Bridgeville.
A man-made disaster, natural disaster or war-caused disaster.
Those conditions which may, by investigation made, be found,
actually or likely, to:
Affect seriously the safety, health, or welfare of a substantial
number of citizens of this Borough or preclude the operation or use
of essential public facilities.
Be of such magnitude or severity as to render essential State
supplementation of County and local efforts or resources exerted or
utilized in alleviating the danger, damage, suffering, or hardship
faced.
Have been caused by forces beyond the control of man, by reason
of civil disorder, riot or disturbance, or by factors not foreseen
and not known to exist when appropriation bills were enacted.
The judicious planning, assignment, and coordination of all
available resources in an integrated program of prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, response and recovery for emergencies of any kind, whether
from attack, man-made or natural sources.
The preparation for and the carrying out of functions, other
than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible,
to prevent, minimize and provide emergency repair of injury and damage
resulting from disaster, together with all other activities necessary
or incidental to the preparation for and the carrying out of those
functions. The functions include, without limitation, firefighting
services, police services, medical and health services, rescue, engineering,
disaster warning services, communications, radiological, shelter,
chemical and other special weapons defense, evacuation of persons
from stricken areas, emergency welfare services, emergency transportation,
emergency resources management, existing or properly assigned functions
of plant protection, temporary restoration of public utility services,
and other functions related to civilian protection.
The condition declared by the Borough Council when in its
judgement the threat or actual occurrence of a disaster is or threatens
to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warranty coordinated
local government action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss,
hardship, or suffering threatened or caused thereby. A local emergency
arising wholly or substantially out of a resource shortage may be
declared only by the Governor, upon petition of the Borough Council,
when he deems the threat or actual occurrence of a disaster to be
of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant coordinated local
government action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss, hardship,
or suffering threatened or caused thereby.
Any industrial, nuclear or transportation accident, explosion,
conflagration, power failure, natural resource shortage or other condition,
except enemy action, resulting from man-made causes, such as oil spills
and other injurious environmental contamination, which threatens or
causes substantial damage to property, human suffering, hardship or
loss of life.
Any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, winddriven
water, tidal wave, earthquake, landslide, mudslide, snowstorm, drought,
fire, explosion or other catastrophe which results in substantial
damage to property, hardship, suffering or possible loss of life.
Any county, city, borough, incorporated town or township,
including the Borough of Bridgeville.
The absence, unavailability, or reduced supply of any raw
or processed natural resource, or any commodities, goods, or services
of any kind which bear a substantial relationship to the health, safety,
welfare, and economic well-being of the citizens of this Commonwealth.
Any condition following an attack upon the United States
resulting in substantial damage to property or injury to person in
the United States caused by use of bombs, missiles, shellfire, nuclear,
radiological, chemical, or biological means, or other weapons or overt
paramilitary actions, or other conditions such as sabotage.
[Ord. 799, 2/19/1991, § 3]
A disaster emergency may declared by the Borough Council upon
finding a disaster has occurred or is imminent. The Mayor may declare
a disaster emergency subject to ratification by the Borough Council.
The declaration shall not be continued or renewed for a period in
excess of seven days except by or with the consent of the Borough
Council. Any order or resolution declaring, continuing or terminating
a disaster emergency shall be given prompt and general publicity and
shall be filed promptly with the Pennsylvania Emergency Management
Agency. The effect of a declaration of a disaster emergency is to
activate the response and recovery aspects of any and all applicable
local emergency management plans and to authorize the furnishing of
aid and assistance under those plans.
[Ord. 799, 2/19/1991, § 4; as amended by Ord. 830,
2/13/1995]
In the event of declaration of a disaster emergency by the Governor,
or, as provided in § 203, the Borough Council, or the Mayor
of the Borough subject to ratification by the Borough Council, the
Borough Council may do the following:
A.
Suspend all ordinances or portions of ordinances dealing with the
opening and closing of any streets, whether public or private, establishment
of one-way or two-way streets, regulation of traffic, prohibition
or regulation in any way of stopping, standing, or parking of vehicles,
establishment of speed limits, prohibition or regulation or use of
any streets, prohibition or regulation of turning of vehicles, prohibition
or regulation of the use of designated vehicles, prohibition or regulation
of the movement of vehicles or persons on any street or elsewhere,
establishment of curfew, and restrictions of assembly of persons.
B.
Authorize the Chief of Police or any police officer, any employee
of the Borough, any person temporally authorized to so act, any member
of the Pennsylvania State Police, or any member of the Armed Forces
of the United States or of the Pennsylvania National Guard to open
or close any street, whether public or private, to establish one-way
streets, to regulate traffic, to prohibit or regulate stopping, standing,
or parking of vehicles, to establish speed limits, to prohibit or
restrict use of any street, to designate any street as a through street,
prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles and parking of vehicles
on designated streets, remove any vehicle parked in violation of such
order, to prohibit and regulate movement of vehicles or persons on
any street and adopt such other traffic regulations as the circumstances
may reasonably require.
C.
Establish a curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., prevailing time,
or at any time to control movement on streets. During that curfew,
it shall be unlawful for any person to be or remain upon any street
or alley or other public place in the Borough unless that person is
going to or from a place of lawful employment, a hospital, a physician,
or other health care provider, or performing a lawful duty directly
related to the disaster emergency.
D.
Enter into mutual aid agreements with adjacent political subdivisions
for reciprocal emergency assistance consistent with plans and programs
of the agency.
E.
Render assistance in accordance with the provision of the mutual
aid agreements.
F.
Where the Governor declares a disaster emergency, to acquire, temporary
or permanent, by purchase, lease, or otherwise, sites required for
installation of temporary housing units for disaster victims and to
enter into whatever arrangements are necessary to prepare or equip
the sites to utilize the housing units.
G.
Perform public work, enter into contracts, incur obligations, employ
temporary workers, rent equipment, purchase supplies and materials,
and appropriate and expend public funds.
H.
Require personnel essential to police, fire, security, public utilities,
and other governmental functions to perform such functions related
to the security, health, welfare and safety of the community.
[Ord. 799, 2/19/1991, § 5; as amended by Ord. 830,
2/13/1995]
Any person violating the provisions of § 204(B) or
(C) shall, upon conviction thereof, be sentenced to pay a fine for
each violation of not less than $50 and not exceeding $1,000 and costs
of prosecution, and, in default of payment of said fine and costs,
be imprisoned for not more than 30 days.
