[Adopted 3-19-2014 by Ord. No. 2014-03]
This article shall be known and may be cited and referred to
as the "Emergency Management Ordinance of the Township of Lebanon."
The Office of Emergency Management is hereby established in
the Township of Lebanon in accordance with the provisions of N.J.S.A.
App. A:9-40.1 et seq.
The Lebanon Township Office of Emergency Management will be
the coordinating agency for all activity in connection with emergency
management; it will be the instrument through which the Mayor and
Council may exercise the authority and discharge the responsibilities
vested in them in the New Jersey Civil Defense Act of 1942, P.L. 1942,
c. 251, as amended and supplemented and by authority of this article.
This article will not relieve any Township department of any
of the responsibilities or authority given to it by any statute, regulation,
or local ordinance, nor will it adversely affect the work of any volunteer
agency organized for relief in disaster emergencies.
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
meanings set forth:
COORDINATOR
The Coordinator of the Lebanon Township Office of Emergency
Management, appointed as prescribed in this article.
DEPUTY COORDINATOR
The Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator, appointed as
prescribed in this article.
DISASTER
An unusual incident or the imminence thereof, resulting from
natural or unnatural causes which endangers the health, safety or
resources of the residents of the Township and which is or may become
too large in scope or unusual in type to be handled in its entirety
by regular Township operating services.
EMERGENCY
Includes "disaster," "local disaster," and "war emergency"
as defined in this article.
LOCAL DISASTER
Any disaster, or the imminence thereof, resulting from natural
or unnatural causes other than enemy attack and limited to the extent
that action by the governor under the New Jersey Emergency Management
- Disaster Control Act is not required.
VOLUNTEER
Any person duly registered, identified and appointed by the
Coordinator and assigned to participate in the emergency management
activity without renumeration.
WAR EMERGENCY
Any disaster occurring as a result of enemy attack or the
imminent danger thereof.
There is hereby created the position of Deputy Emergency Management
Coordinator for the Township of Lebanon. The Mayor shall appoint a
Deputy Emergency Management Coordinator from among the residents of
the Township. At the discretion of the Mayor, more than one Deputy
Coordinator may be appointed if needed. The Deputy Coordinator shall
be responsible directly to the Coordinator. The duties of the Deputy
Coordinator shall be prescribed by the Coordinator. The Deputy Coordinator
shall be required to have all of the training, certificates and credentials
that are required of the Coordinator. The position of Deputy Emergency
Management Coordinator is not a paid position.
The Mayor shall appoint not more than 15 members to a Local
Emergency Planning Committee and may consist of representatives from
the Township Committee, Police Department, Fire Department, broadcast
or print media, and Township residents. Members shall hold office
at the will and pleasure of the Mayor. The Emergency Management Coordinator
shall be a member and shall serve as Chairman of the Local Emergency
Planning Committee. The Local Emergency Planning Committee shall assist
the Township in establishing the various local volunteer support needed
to meet the requirements of all emergency management and disaster
control activities and to assist in the development of emergency management
plans in pursuance of the provisions of P.L. 1942, c. 251, as amended.
A comprehensive emergency operations plan shall be maintained
by the Coordinator. In the preparation of this plan as it pertains
to Township organization, it is the intent that the services, equipment,
facilities and personnel of all existing departments and agencies,
including volunteer fire companies and first aid squads (said department
agencies and companies hereinafter referred to as "departments"),
shall be utilized to the fullest extent to protect the peace, health
and safety of citizens. When approved, it shall be the duty of all
municipal departments to perform the functions assigned by the plan
and to maintain their portion of the plan in a current state of readiness
at all times. The emergency operations plan shall be considered supplementary
to this article and have the effect of law whenever a disaster, as
defined in this article, has been proclaimed. The plan shall be compatible
with county and state plans.
[Adopted 8-5-2015 by Ord.
No. 2015-04]
For the purpose of this article, the following terms shall have
the following meanings:
EMERGENCY
An interruption of service of the public utility right-of-way
user within the Township, or outside thereof if that interruption
causes an interruption of service within the Township or damage to
or by the equipment or facilities of the public utility right-of-way
user, either or both of which affects the ability of the emergency
services providers of the Township, or the Emergency Management Control
Coordinator, from fulfilling their duties to protect the public.
PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY
The surface, the air space above the surface (to the extent
such air space may be regulated by the Township) and the area below
the surface of any public roadway, highway, street or alleyway in
which the Township has an interest in fee or easement.
PUBLIC UTILITY
Every cable television service provider, every pipeline corporation,
gas corporation, electrical corporation or company, telecommunications
company, water corporation or company, heating corporation or company,
or sewer corporation or company under the jurisdiction of the New
Jersey Board of Public Utilities; every municipally owned or operated
utility; every privately owned utility; and every other entity, regardless
of its form of organization or governance, whether for profit or not,
which in providing a public utility type of service for members of
the general public, utilizes pipes, cables, conduits, wires, optical
cables, or other means of transmission, collection or exchange of
communications, information, substances, data, or electronic or electrical
current or impulses in the collection, exchange or dissemination of
its product or services through the public right-of way. "Public utility"
shall also include a public utility provider that does not own facilities
in the public right-of-way, but uses the public right-of-way by interconnecting
with or using the network elements of another public utility utilizing
the public right-of-way, and/or by leasing excess capacity from an
other public utility.