Reduce vulnerability of people and property of this Township to damage, injury, and loss of life and property.

Prepare for prompt and efficient rescue and care, and treatment of threatened or affected persons.

Coordinate with county, state and federal agencies for the orderly rehabilitation of persons and restoration of property.

Provide for cooperation and coordination of activities relating to emergency mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery among agencies and officials of this Township and with the similar agencies and officials of other municipalities, counties, with the state and federal governments, with interstate organizations, and with other private and quasi-official organizations.

To suspend part or the entirety of Chapter 15, Motor Vehicles and Traffic, §§ 15-101 through 15-1312, as amended.

To authorize the Emergency Management Coordinator, or Assistant Coordinators, Chief of Police or any police officer, any employee of the Township, any person temporarily authorized to so act, any member of the Pennsylvania State Police, or any member of the Armed Forces of the United States or of the Pennsylvania National Guard to open or close any street, whether public or private, to establish one-way streets, to regulate traffic, to prohibit or regulate stopping, standing or parking of vehicles, to establish speed limits, to prohibit or restrict use of any street, to designate any street as a through street, to prohibit or regulate the turning of vehicles, to prohibit or regulate use of a designated street, to remove any vehicle parked in violation of such order, to prohibit and regulate movement of vehicles or persons on any street, and to adopt such other traffic regulations as the circumstances may reasonably require.

To establish a curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m., prevailing time, or at any time to control movement on streets. During such curfew, no person shall be or remain upon any street or alley or other public place in the Township, unless such person is going to or from a place of lawful employment, a hospital, a physician or other health care provider, or performing a lawful duty directly related to the disaster emergency.

To enter into mutual aid agreements with adjacent political subdivisions for reciprocal emergency assistance consistent with plans and programs of the agency.

To render assistance in accordance with the provisions of the mutual aid agreements.

Where the Governor declares a disaster emergency, to acquire temporary or permanent sites, by purchase, lease or otherwise, required for installation of temporary housing units for disaster victims and to enter into whatever arrangements are necessary to prepare or equip the sites to utilize the housing units.

To perform public work, to enter into contracts, to incur obligations, to employ temporary workers, to rent equipment, to purchase supplies and materials and to appropriate and expend public funds.

To require personnel essential to police, fire, security, public utilities and other governmental functions to perform such functions as required to provide for the health, welfare and safety of the community after evacuation.

To regulate and control agricultural, commercial and industrial functions related to the security, health, welfare and safety of the community.

To continue to participate in the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act for a joint emergency operations plan in accordance with Ordinance 766-10.