[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of Pocomoke City 1-20-1969 by Ord. No. 211 (Ch. 11 of the 1968 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Emergency services — See Ch. 33.
Mutual aid agreements — See Ch. 85.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings indicated:
CIVIL EMERGENCY
A. 
A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by immediate power to execute by three or more persons acting together without authority of law.
B. 
Any natural disaster or man-made calamity, including flood, conflagration, cyclone, tornado, earthquake or explosion, within the corporate limits of Pocomoke City resulting in the death or injury of persons or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
CURFEW
A prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or vacant premises within the corporate limits of Pocomoke City, excepting persons officially designated to duty with reference to said civil emergency.
[Amended 6-2-1997 by Ord. No. 349]
When in the judgment of the Mayor or, in the Mayor's absence, a Vice President of the Council a civil emergency as defined herein is deemed to exist, he or she shall forthwith proclaim in writing the existence of the same.
After proclamation of a civil emergency by the Mayor or Vice President, he or she may order a general curfew applicable to such geographical areas of the City or to the City as a whole as he or she deems advisable and applicable during such hours of the day or night as he or she deems necessary in the interest of the public safety and welfare.
After proclamation of a civil emergency, the Mayor, or the Vice President, as the case may be, may also in the interest of public safety and welfare make any or all of the following orders:
A. 
Order the closing of all retail liquor stores.
B. 
Order the closing of all beer taverns.
C. 
Order the closing of all private clubs or portions thereof wherein the consumption of intoxicating liquor and/or beer is permitted.
D. 
Order the discontinuance of the sale of beer.
E. 
Order the discontinuance of selling, distributing or giving away gasoline or other liquid flammable or combustible products in any container other than a gasoline tank properly affixed to a motor vehicle.
F. 
Order the closing of gasoline stations and other establishments, the chief activity of which is the sale, distribution or dispensing of liquid flammable or combustible products.
G. 
Order the discontinuance of selling, distributing, dispensing or giving away of any firearms or ammunition of any character whatsoever.
H. 
Order the closing of any or all establishments or portions thereof, the chief activity of which is the sale, distribution, dispensing or giving away of firearms and/or ammunition.
I. 
Order the temporary closing of any and all streets, alleys and other public ways in Pocomoke City.
J. 
Issue such other orders as are imminently necessary for the protection of life and property.
Should the Mayor or Vice President of the Council deem it necessary to invoke any or all of the provisions of § 30-1 to § 30-4, inclusive, he or she shall give notice of the same by means of a written proclamation publicly posted in City Hall and issued to news media for immediate dissemination to the public.
[Amended 6-2-1997 by Ord. No. 349]
Any person violating the provisions of this chapter or an executive order issued pursuant thereto shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable as provided in the general penalty provisions of § 1-18.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original Art. II, Curfews, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 6-2-1997 by Ord. No. 349.