[1997 Code § 27-1]
Because of the existing and increasing possibility of disasters
of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from fire, flood,
earthquake, hurricane, tropical storm, aircraft accident, rail accident
or other natural or man-made causes and in order to ensure that preparations
of this City 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 residents
of this City, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary to:
A.
Create an office of emergency management.
B.
Provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other cities within the
State of New Jersey and to cooperate with the County and State Offices
of Emergency Management.
C.
Create and test an emergency operating plan for all divisions of
City government and all volunteer organizations in the event of one
of the aforementioned disasters.
D.
Establish an emergency operating center.
[1997 Code § 27-2]
A.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the
policy of the City that all functions of municipal government, as
well as volunteer and private agencies of every type, be included
in the emergency operating plan so that a comprehensive plan can be
developed to make use of all available resources in the event that
a disaster does occur.
B.
It shall be the responsibility of the Emergency Management Coordinator
to create and test the emergency operating plan and be prepared to
activate it whenever necessary.
[1997 Code § 27-3]
It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and
the policy of this City to organize an Office of Emergency Management
in conformity with the Civil Defense Act as directed by N.J.S.A. App.
A:9-33 et seq. The name of this Office shall be as follows: "Absecon
Police Department, Special Services Bureau, Emergency Management Section."
[1997 Code § 27-4; N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.1]
A.
The Mayor of this City shall be responsible for the appointment of
a qualified Emergency Management Coordinator to State guidelines as
of the date of his/her appointment. It shall be the responsibility
of the Coordinator to appoint a Deputy Coordinator to assist the Coordinator
and to act in his/her place if not available.
B.
Appointment; term; qualifications. There shall be appointed an Emergency
Management Coordinator. The Emergency Management Coordinator shall
serve for a term of three years and be a resident of the Borough.
As a condition of his appointment and his right to continue for the
full term of his appointment, each Municipal Emergency Management
Coordinator shall have successfully completed at the time of his appointment
or within one year immediately following his appointment or the effective
date of this act, whichever is later, the current approved Home Study
Course and the basic Emergency Management workshop. (N.J.S.A. App.
A:9-40.1)
[1997 Code § 27-5]
A.
A staff will be appointed by the Coordinator, which will be representative
of the various departments of the City as well as other private and
public agencies to assist with the emergency operating plan as well
as staffing the emergency operating center when activated.
B.
The staff appointments shall be deemed to fulfill the requirements
of N.J.S.A. App. A:9-41.
[1997 Code § 27-6]
It shall be the responsibility of the Emergency Management Coordinator
to carry out and enforce such orders, rules and regulations as issued
under a proclamation of a local state of emergency. The Office of
Emergency Management shall have available for inspection all such
orders and rules and regulations made by the Emergency Management
Coordinator.
[1997 Code § 27-7]
The office of Emergency Management shall have a fully equipped
emergency operating center, which shall be ready to coordinate all
City functions in the event of an emergency. It shall also have an
alternate emergency operating center in the event that the first shall
be damaged or unusable.
