In the Borough of Edgewater there is hereby created the position
of Emergency Management Coordinator, who shall be appointed by the
Mayor from among the residents of the municipality. The Emergency
Management Coordinator, subject to fulfilling the requirements of
this section, shall serve for a term of three years. As a condition
of his appointment and his right to continue for the full term of
his appointment, the Emergency Management Coordinator shall have successfully
completed at the time of his appointment or within one year immediately
following his appointment the current approved home study course and
the basic emergency management workshop. The failure of the 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.
The Governor may remove the Emergency Management Coordinator
at any time for cause. In such event, the Mayor of the Borough shall
appoint a new Emergency Management Coordinator with the approval of
the Governor. If the Mayor shall not appoint an Emergency Management
Coordinator within 10 days after such office shall become vacant,
the Governor may appoint a temporary Emergency Management Coordinator,
who shall serve and perform all of the duties of that office until
such time as a new Emergency Management Coordinator shall be appointed
by the Mayor with the approval of the Governor.
Each Emergency Management Coordinator shall appoint a Deputy
Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator with the approval of the
Mayor. Wherever possible, such deputy shall be appointed from among
the salaried officers or employees of the municipality.
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall be responsible for
the planning, activating, coordinating, and the conduct of emergency
management operations within this municipality.
Whenever, in his opinion, a disaster has occurred or is imminent
in the Borough of Edgewater, the Emergency Management Coordinator
shall proclaim a state of local disaster emergency within the Borough.
The Emergency Management Coordinator, in accordance with regulations
promulgated by the State Director of Emergency Management, shall be
empowered to issue and enforce such orders as may be necessary to
implement and carry out emergency management operations and to protect
the health, safety, and resources of the residents of the municipality.
No representative of the Borough shall request aid in time of
disaster or emergency directly from noncontiguous municipalities nor
shall the Borough send personnel or equipment into a disaster-stricken
municipality unless and until such aid has been directed by the County
Emergency Management Coordinator or his deputies. Specific exemptions
from the action of this section may be granted only by authority of
the State Director of Emergency Management.
The Borough of Edgewater is authorized to create by resolution
any other agencies or instrumentalities that may be needed in order
to meet the problems presented by any emergency as defined by this
act, not at variance with such rules and regulations as shall be established
by the Governor. Any such agencies heretofore or hereafter established
shall immediately conform to the rules and regulations that may be
adopted and promulgated by the Governor.
An officer of the Borough who is charged with duties pertaining
to emergency management planning shall perform his duties in accordance
with rules and regulations promulgated by the Governor.