[HISTORY: Adopted by the Village Board of the Village of
Coloma 6-30-1994 as Title 3, Ch.
3, of the 1994 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
A.
Policy and purpose. To ensure the Village of Coloma will be prepared
to cope with emergencies resulting from enemy action and man-made
or natural disasters, an Emergency Government Program is created to
carry out all emergency functions, other than functions for which
the military forces are primarily responsible, to minimize and repair
injury and damage resulting from disaster caused by enemy attack,
sabotage or other hostile action, or by fire, tornado or other natural
or man-made causes. It is further declared to be the purpose of this
chapter and the policy of the Village that all emergency government
functions of the Village be coordinated to the maximum extent practicable
with existing services and facilities of the Village and with comparable
functions of the federal, state and county government and other political
subdivisions, and of various private agencies to the end that the
most effective preparation and use may be made of manpower, resources
and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.
B.
EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT
Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have
the meanings indicated:
That preparation for and carrying out of all emergency functions,
other than functions for which the military forces are primarily responsible,
to minimize and repair injury and damage resulting from disaster caused
by enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action or by fire, flood
or other natural causes.
The Village of Coloma by joint ordinance action with the Board
of Supervisors of Waushara County, enacted by the County Board and
by the Village on June 29, 1972, provided that the Civil Defense Director
for the Village of Coloma is the Civil Defense Director appointed
and employed by the Waushara County Board. This joint ordinance was
ratified and affirmed and shall continue in effect until rescinded.
In preparing and executing the emergency government plan, the
Director shall utilize the services, equipment, supplies and facilities
of the existing departments and agencies of the Village to the maximum
extent practicable. All departments and agencies shall cooperate with
and extend such services and facilities to the Director.
Upon the declaration by the Governor, the Village President
or the Emergency Government Director in the absence of the Village
President, or by the Village Board, a state of emergency, the Emergency
Government Director shall issue all necessary proclamations as to
the existence of such state of emergency and shall issue such disaster
warnings or alerts as shall be required in the emergency government
plan. The emergency government organization shall take action in accordance
with the emergency plan only after the declaration of an emergency
and the issuance of official disaster warnings. Such state of emergency
shall continue until terminated by the issuing authority, provided
that any such declaration not issued by the Governor may be terminated
at the discretion of the Village Board.
Whenever necessary to meet an emergency for which adequate regulations
have not been adopted by the Village Board, the Village President
or, in his/her absence, the Emergency Government Director may proclaim,
promulgate and enforce orders, rules and regulations relating to the
conduct of persons and the use of property which is necessary to protect
the public peace, health and safety, to preserve lives and property
and to insure cooperation in emergency government activities. Such
proclamations shall be posted in three public places and may be rescinded
by resolution of the Village Board.
A.
Location of Village government. Whenever, during the continuance
of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor under § 323.10,
Wis. Stats., it becomes imprudent, inexpedient or impossible to conduct
the affairs of government of the Village at the regular or usual places
thereof, the Village Board may meet at any place on the call of the
Village President or his/her successor and shall proceed to establish
and designate by ordinance, resolution or other manner, an alternate
or substitute site or place as the emergency temporary location of
government where all or any part of the public business may be transacted
and conducted during the emergency situation. Such alternate or substitute
site or place may be within or without the territorial limits of the
Village and may be within or without those of the state. If practicable,
it shall be the site designated as the emergency temporary location
of the Village government in the current emergency government plan
of the Village.
B.
Exercise of governmental authority. During the period when the public
business is being conducted at a temporary emergency location, the
Village Board and other officers of the Village shall have and possess
and shall exercise at such location all the executive, legislative,
administrative and judicial powers and functions conferred upon the
Village Board and officers of the Village by or under the laws of
the state. Such powers and functions except judicial may be exercised
in the light of the exigencies of the emergency situation and without
regard to, or compliance with, time-consuming procedures and formalities
prescribed by law and pertaining thereto. All acts of the Village
Board and officers shall be valid and binding as if performed within
the territorial limits of the Village.
The Emergency Government Director may, subject to the approval
of the Village Board, enter into mutual aid agreements with other
political subdivisions. Copies of such agreements shall be filed with
the County Director of Emergency Government.
A.
No person shall willfully obstruct, hinder or delay any member of
the emergency government organization in the enforcement of any order,
rule, regulation or plan issued pursuant to this chapter or violate
any order, rule, regulation or plan issued pursuant to the authority
contained in this chapter.
