There is hereby created the position of Emergency Management
Coordinator of the Township of Cranford.
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall receive such compensation
as the Township Committee may fix from time to time by ordinance.
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall, pursuant to App.
A:9-40.1 of the New Jersey statutes, be appointed by the Mayor. Subject
to fulfilling the requirements of this article, the Emergency Management
Coordinator shall serve for a term of three years.
As a condition of appointment and continued service for the
full term of appointment, the Emergency Management Coordinator shall
have successfully completed, at the time of appointment, or within
one year immediately following appointment, the current approved home
study course and the basic emergency management workshop. The failure
of the Emergency Management Coordinator to fulfill such requirement
within the period prescribed shall disqualify the Coordinator from
continuing in office and thereupon a vacancy in said office shall
be deemed to have been created.
The Governor may remove the Emergency Management Coordinator
at any time for cause. In such event, the Mayor shall appoint a new
Emergency Management Coordinator with the approval of the Governor.
If the Mayor shall not appoint an Emergency Management Coordinator
within 10 days after such office shall become vacant, the Governor
may appoint a temporary Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator
who shall serve and perform all of the duties of that office until
such time as a new Emergency Management Coordinator shall be appointed
by the Mayor, with the approval of the Governor.
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall be responsible for
the planning, activating, coordinating and conduct of emergency management
operations within the municipality. Whenever, in the Emergency Management
Coordinator's opinion, a disaster has occurred or is imminent in the
Township of Cranford, the Emergency Management Coordinator shall proclaim
a state of local disaster emergency within the municipality. In accordance
with the regulations promulgated by the State Director of Emergency
Management, the Emergency Management Coordinator shall be empowered
to issue and enforce such orders as may be necessary to implement
and carry out emergency management operations and to protect the health,
safety and resources of the residents of the municipality.
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall appoint a Deputy
Emergency Management Coordinator with the approval of the Mayor. Such
deputy shall, whenever possible, be appointed from among the salaried
officers or employees of the municipality.