There is hereby created within and for the City of Tarkio an
emergency management organization to be known as the Tarkio Emergency
Management Organization which is responsible for the preparation and
implementation of emergency functions required to prevent injury and
minimize and repair damage due to disasters, to include emergency
management of resources and administration of such economic controls
as may be needed to provide for the welfare of the people, and emergency
activities (excluding functions for which military forces are primarily
responsible) in accordance with Chapter 44, RSMo., and supplements
thereto, and the Missouri Emergency Operations Plan adopted thereunder.
[R.O. 2013 §225.020]
This agency shall consist of a Director and other members appointed
by the Mayor and Emergency Management Organization to conform to the
State organization and procedures for the conduct of emergency operations
as outlined in the Missouri Emergency Operations Plan.
The organization shall perform emergency management functions
within the City of Tarkio and may conduct these functions outside
the territorial limits as directed by the Governor during the time
of emergency pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 44, RSMo., and
supplements thereto.
The Mayor or Public Safety Agency may enter into mutual-aid
arrangements or agreements with other public and private agencies
within and without the State for reciprocal emergency aid as authorized
in Section 44.090, RSMo.
[R.O. 2013 §225.070]
The Mayor of the City may, with the consent of the Governor,
accept services, materials, equipment, supplies or funds gifted, granted
or loaned by the Federal Government or an officer or agency thereof
for emergency management purposes, subject to the terms of the offer.
No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in
the Tarkio Emergency Management Organization who advocates or has
advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form
of the Government of the United States or in this State or the overthrow
of any Government in the United States by force or violence, or has
been convicted of or is under indictment or information charging any
subversive act against the United States. Each person who is appointed
to serve in the Tarkio Emergency Management Organization shall, before
entering upon his/her duties, take an oath, in writing, before a person
authorized to administer oaths in this State, which oath shall be
substantially as follows:
"I,____________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution
of the State of Missouri against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take
this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose
of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties
upon which I am about to enter. And I do further swear (or affirm)
that I do not advocate, nor am I a member of any political party or
organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the
United States or of this State by force or violence; and that during
such a time as I am a member of the Tarkio Emergency Management Organization,
I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or
organization that advocates the overthrow of the Government of the
United States or of this State by force or violence."
[R.O. 2013 §225.090]
The Mayor is authorized to designate space in any City-owned
or leased building for the Tarkio Emergency Management Organization.
[Ord. No. 78-09 §§202.010
— 202.020, 2-24-2009]
A. Installation And Maintenance. Required installation and
maintenance of a Public Alert Certified Weather NOAA Radio for developed
and developing non-residential and residential group homes, elementary
and higher education schools, eating establishments, amusement establishments
(pool, golf course, community building, etc.), banking establishments,
assisted living housing complexes where a primary office of activity
for the complex is organized, nursing homes, doctors' offices, and
profit or non-profit establishments capable of housing any size public
or private within.
B. Requirements. All establishments described above will be
required to obtain and maintain a said Public Alert Certified Weather
NOAA Radio sixty (60) days of the passing of this Section. All new
establishments seeking a business license following the passing of
this bill that fit the criteria as an establishment described above
will be required to have in place a Public Alert Weather NOAA Radio
at the onset of business.
C. Penalty. Failure to purchase and maintain said Public Alert
Certified Weather NOAA Radio will result in a violation of this Code
subject to citation by the Mayor and/or Police Department, which will
be an infraction.