[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Port
Republic 7-13-1964[1] (Ch. 39 of the 1982 Code). Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: This chapter originally concerned provisions
regarding civil defense and disaster control. During codification,
the more current term "Agency of Emergency Management" was approved
and is used throughout.
[Amended 3-12-1985 by Ord. No. 47-1985]
Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence
of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from
enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action or from fire, flood,
earthquake or any other cause, and in order to ensure that preparations
of this municipality will be adequate to deal with such disasters,
and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the
public peace, health and safety and to preserve the lives and property
of the people of this municipality, it is hereby found and declared
to be necessary to create an Agency of Emergency Management, to provide
for the rendering of mutual aid to other municipalities both in the
State of New Jersey and in other states which may require aid and
to cooperate with the state government with respect to carrying out
civil defense and disaster control functions.
[Amended 3-12-1985 by Ord. No. 47-1985]
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and
the policy of this municipality that all civil defense functions of
this municipality be coordinated by the Director of Emergency Management,
to the maximum extent, with the comparable functions of the state
government, including its various departments and agencies, of other
municipalities and of private agencies of every type, to the end that
the most effective preparation and use may be made of this municipality's
resources and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.
[Amended 3-12-1985 by Ord. No. 47-1985]
It is further declared that the Municipal Director of Emergency
Management may declare a state of local disaster emergency and initiate
disaster control operations whenever, in his opinion, a disaster has
occurred or is imminent, and it shall be the duty of all persons,
firms or others to obey all regulations, rules or directives issued
either by the State of New Jersey or any agency thereof, by the County
Coordinator of Civil Defense and Disaster Control or any authorized
member of the county staff, or by the Municipal Director of Emergency
Management or any authorized officer. The Municipal Agency of Emergency
Management shall be governed by and shall act in strict accordance
with Chapter 251, P.L. 1942, as amended by Chapter 438, P.L. 1953,
and any other or further amendments thereof.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33 et seq.
As provided in the Civil Defense and Disaster Control Plan of
the State of New Jersey, Section II, Division 2, Paragraph (h), all
requests for mutual aid from outside of this municipality shall be
forwarded through proper channels to the County Coordinator, and this
municipality and all agencies thereof are prohibited from sending
assistance to another municipality unless directed by the County Civil
Defense and Disaster Control Coordinator.
[Amended 3-12-1985 by Ord. No. 47-1985]
Any person, firm or corporation found guilty of violating the
provisions of this chapter shall be punishable by a fine of not more
than $500 or by imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or by both
such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the judicial officer
hearing the same.
