[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Kittanning 8-3-1966 by Ord. No. 43-1966 (Ch. I, Part 4, of the 1970 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Fire Company — See Ch. 68.
Police Department — See Ch. 162.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CIVIL DEFENSE
Includes measures for the mobilization, organization and direction of the civilian population and necessary support agencies to prevent, or minimize, the effects of fire, flood, earthquake and epidemic, as well as the effects of a nuclear war, or any subversive activities against the populace, communities, industrial plants, facilities and other installations.
It shall be the duty of the Kittanning Borough Office of Civil Defense, and it is hereby empowered:
A. 
To develop a municipal civil defense operational survival plan. This plan shall provide for the effective mobilization of all resources of the municipality, both private and public;
B. 
To prepare and recommend for consideration by the Council ordinances necessary to implement the civil defense operational survival plan;
C. 
To consider and recommend to the Council for approval, all mutual aid plans and agreements.
There is hereby created the office of the Kittanning Borough Civil Defense Director. Such officer shall be nominated by the Mayor and approved by the Council. The Civil Defense Director is hereby charged:
A. 
To represent the Mayor on all matters pertaining to civil defense;
B. 
During periods of emergency to direct and coordinate the services of all municipal forces;
C. 
To obtain and utilize cooperation of Kittanning Borough officials in the preparation and implementation of a civil defense operational survival plan;
D. 
During periods of emergency to obtain vital supplies and equipment needed for the protection of life and property of people.
Officers and employees of the municipality of Kittanning Borough, with volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, and all groups, organizations and persons who make the agreements on operation of law, be charged with duties necessary for the protection of life and property in the Borough of Kittanning during an emergency.
All persons, other than officers and employees of the municipality, volunteering in service pursuant to compliance with this chapter, shall serve with, or without, compensation. While engaged in such service they shall have the same immunities and protections as persons and employees of the municipality performing similar duties.
This chapter is hereby declared to be an emergency measure, necessary for the immediate preservation of public business, health and safety, and it shall take effect immediately upon adoption. A complete and adequate civil defense operational survival plan will be formulated at once. This plan will be based upon plans prescribed by and in the Pennsylvania Operational Survival Plan.
Where provisions of this chapter are in conflict with existing local laws, the provisions of this chapter will govern, and such provision of existing laws, with which provisions of this chapter are in conflict, are hereby rescinded.