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Editor's Note: Prior ordinance history includes portions of
Ordinance Nos. A.C. 1969, 8.13, MC-1974-5, MC 1994-2 and MC 1994-9.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2012-09, June 18, 2012; amended 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC
2022-21; 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-22]
The City of Plainfield's Emergency Management Council shall
be recommended by the Emergency Management Coordinator and be approved
by the Mayor with the advice of the City Council. The Emergency Management
Council shall be composed of no more than fifteen (15) members. Membership
shall consist of local agency representation including, but not limited
to: Plainfield Council of Concerned Urban Clergy, the Plainfield Chamber
of Commerce, Solaris Health Systems, El Centro Hispanoamericano, the
Plainfield Health Center, the Plainfield Area Red Cross, the Plainfield
City Utilities, the Plainfield Board of Education, and the Plainfield
Housing Authority, as well as, the City Departments of Public Safety,
Public Works and Urban Development, and Administration, Finance and
Health. The members of the Emergency Management Council shall hold
office at the pleasure of the Mayor. The Emergency Management Coordinator
shall serve as a member of the Emergency Management Council and as
its Director. The Emergency Management Council shall be assigned to
the Office of the Director of Public Affairs and Safety for budgetary
purposes.
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State law reference: As to Emergency Management and Emergency
Management Coordinator, see N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.2 et seq.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
The Mayor shall appoint with the advice and consent of the City
Council an Emergency Management Coordinator from among the residents
of the municipality. The Emergency Management Coordinator, subject
to fulfilling the requirements set forth in N.J.S.A. App. A:9-40.1,
shall serve for a term of three (3) years. As a condition of appointment
and the right to continue for the full term of said appointment, the
Emergency Management Coordinator shall have successfully completed
at the time of appointment or within one (1) year immediately following
appointment, the concurrent 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 the office of
Coordinator and thereupon a vacancy in said office shall be deemed
to have been created.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2010-15, § 4, June
21, 2010]
The Emergency Management Coordinator shall be responsible for
the planning, activating, coordination and conduct of emergency management
operations within the City, and otherwise exercise the duties and
responsibilities established by the State law or Executive Order.
The Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator shall perform
the duties and responsibilities as the Coordinator at times and hours
outside of his/her regular work hours and shall be required to provide
all timesheets and all other necessary reporting documents in support
of all time expended as Coordinator or where, (b) the appointee is
a full time City employee, he/she shall perform the duties and responsibilities
as the Coordinator at times and hours outside of his/her regular work
hours and shall be required to provide all timesheets and all other
necessary reporting documents in support of all time expended as Coordinator
or where, (c) the appointee is not a City employee, he/she shall not
be eligible or otherwise entitled to benefits of any kind associated
with his/her appointment as the Municipal Emergency Management Coordinator.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004; MC 2012-03, March 12, 2012;
MC 2015-06, March 9, 2015; amended 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-21; 6-30-2022 by Ord. No. MC 2022-22]
Deputy Coordinators may be employees of the City of Plainfield,
the Plainfield Board of Education, the Plainfield City Utilities or
the Plainfield Rescue Squad. The Mayor of the City of Plainfield in
coordination with the Emergency Management Coordinator, upon filing
notice with the City Clerk may appoint up to eleven (11) Deputy Coordinators.
One (1) from the Police Division, one (1) from the Fire Division,
one (1) from the Department of Public Works & Urban Development,
one (1) from the Division of Health, one (1) from the Division of
Information Technology, one (1) from the office of the City Clerk,
one (1) from the Plainfield Rescue Squad, one (1) from the Plainfield
Municipal Utilities Authority, one (1) from the Plainfield Board of
Education, the Mayor and or his/her designee, the City Administrator
and/or his/her designee.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
(a)
The Emergency Management Council shall assist the municipality in
establishing the various local agencies needed to meet the requirements
of all Local Emergency Management activities in accordance with the
rules and regulations established by the Governor of the State of
New Jersey in pursuance of the provisions of this act.
(b)
The Emergency Management Council is authorized within the limit of
appropriations to establish an adequate organization to assist in
supervising and coordinating the Emergency Management activities.
(c)
Such Emergency Management Council shall assist and advise the Emergency
Management Coordinator on matters pertaining to Emergency Management.
(d)
It shall be lawful for members of the Emergency Management Council,
also to be members of other agencies created because of any emergency.
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State law reference: As to powers and duties of the Local
Emergency Management Council, see N.J.S.A. App. A:9-41 et seq.
[MC 2004-03, March 15, 2004]
(a)
In time of disaster, no representative of the City shall request
aid directly from noncontiguous municipalities, nor shall any municipality
or public or semi-public agency send personnel or equipment into the
City unless and until such aid has been directed by the Union County
Emergency Management Coordinator or his deputy.
(b)
Specific exemption from the action of this section may be granted
only by the authority of the New Jersey State Director of Emergency
Management.
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State law reference: As to aid in time of disaster, see N.J.S.A.
App. A:9-40.6 et seq.
[MC 2013-08, § 1, September 9, 2013]
A CERT Team is hereby established in the City of Plainfield.
The CERT Team shall be within the Office of Emergency Management and
shall be under the supervision and control of the City of Plainfield's
Emergency Management Coordinator or his/her designee.
[MC 2013-08, § 2, September 9, 2013]
The mission, organization and purpose of the CERT Team is to
provide volunteer services for natural and other disasters under the
direction of the Office of Emergency Management to supplement and
assist police, fire and Emergency Management Services response to
disaster.
[MC 2013-08, § 3, September 9, 2013]
CERT Team member shall be volunteers appointed by the Mayor
with advice and consent of the City Council. Each CERT Team member
shall serve for a term of three (3) years. To be considered eligible,
a volunteer must be eighteen (18) years of age and reside or work
within the City of Plainfield.
[MC 2013-08, § 4, September 9, 2013]
All CERT Team members will receive basic-level training as required
by the Federal Emergency Management Administration and will include:
[MC 2013-08, § 5, September 9, 2013]
Other volunteers, who are not members of CERT, may volunteer
to assist the Office of Emergency Management. These volunteers shall
perform tasks as assigned by the Coordinator of Emergency Management.
All volunteers shall be under the control and direction of the Emergency
Management Coordinator, or his or her designee.
