There is hereby created within and for the Village of Hanley
Hills an emergency management organization to be known as the Hanley
Hills 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.
This agency shall consist of a Director and other members appointed
to the Hanley Hills 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 Village of Hanley Hills 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 Chairperson 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.
The Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Village 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 Hanley Hills 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 Hanley Hills 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 Hanley Hills 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."
The Chairperson of the Board of Trustees is authorized to designate
space in any Village-owned or leased building for the Hanley Hills
Emergency Management Organization.