It shall be the function of the Department of Emergency Management to have charge of emergency management and preparedness activities for the City of Chicopee as defined in Section 1, Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, and to perform emergency management functions as authorized or directed by said 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 said Chapter 639. The Department will also perform emergency management functions as authorized by Chapter
9 of the City Code of Chicopee or by any and all executive orders or general regulations promulgated thereunder and will exercise any authority delegated to it by the Mayor of the City of Chicopee.
An Emergency Management Department Advisory Commission consists
of five members who shall serve without pay. Said commission shall
consist of three permanent members who shall be: Director of Emergency
Management, Chief of Fire, Chief of Police. Two other persons shall
be named by the Mayor to serve as Commissioners. The Mayor shall appoint
one member to serve as Chairman who shall be either the Police Chief
or Fire Chief. Said Commissioners shall serve subject to the direction
and control of the Mayor and shall advise the Mayor and the Director
of Emergency Management on matters pertaining to emergency management
within the City of Chicopee. In the absence of the Director of Emergency
Management, his duties shall be performed by the Chairman of the Emergency
Management Department Advisory Commission.
The Police Department is hereby authorized to go to aid another
city or town at the request of said city or town in the suppression
of riots or other forms of violence therein.
This chapter shall remain in force during the effective period
of Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, any act in amendment to or continuation
thereof or substitution therefor.
All references to Chapter 639, Acts of 1950, as now in force,
shall be applicable to any acts in amendment to or continuation of
or substitution for said Chapter 639.