[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and City Council of the City
of Maroa as Ch. 30, Art. III, of the 2001 Code. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
There is hereby created the City Emergency Services and Disaster
Agency (ESDA) to prevent, minimize, repair and alleviate injury or
damage resulting from disaster caused by enemy attack, sabotage or
other hostile action, or from natural or man-made disaster, in accordance
with the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act (20 ILCS 3305/1
et seq.), and any amendments thereto. This ESDA shall consist of the
Coordinator and such additional members as may be selected by the
Coordinator.
The Coordinator of the City ESDA shall be appointed by the Mayor
with the advice and consent of the City Council and shall serve until
removed by same. The Coordinator shall have direct responsibility
for the organization, administration, training and operation of the
ESDA, subject to the direction and control of the Mayor, as provided
by statute. In the event of the absence, resignation, death or inability
to serve as the Coordinator, the Mayor or any person designated by
him shall be and act as Coordinator until a new appointment is made
as provided in this chapter.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The ESDA shall perform such ESDA functions within the City as
shall be prescribed in and by the state emergency management plan
and program prepared by the Governor, and such orders, rules and regulations
as may be promulgated by the Governor, and in addition shall perform
such duties outside the corporate limits as may be required pursuant
to any mutual aid agreement with any other political subdivision,
municipality or quasi-municipality entered into as provided in the
Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act (20 ILCS 3305/1 et seq.),
and any amendments thereto.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
All or any members of the ESDA organization may be designated
as members of a mobile support team created by the Director of the
State Emergency Management Agency, as provided by law. The leader
of such mobile support team shall be designated by the Coordinator
of the ESDA organization. Any member of a mobile support team who
is a City employee or officer while serving on call to duty by the
Governor or the State Director shall receive the compensation and
have the powers, duties, rights and immunities incident to such employment
or office. Any such member who is not a paid officer or employee of
the City, while so serving, shall receive from the state reasonable
compensation as provided by law.
The Coordinator of ESDA may negotiate mutual aid agreements
with other cities or political subdivisions of the state, but no such
agreement shall be effective until it has been approved by the Mayor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
If the Governor proclaims that a disaster emergency exists in
the event of actual enemy attack upon the United States or the occurrence
within the State of Illinois of a major disaster resulting from enemy
sabotage or other hostile action, or from man-made or natural disaster,
it shall be the duty of the ESDA to cooperate fully with the State
Emergency Management Agency and with the Governor in the exercise
of emergency powers as provided by law.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Members of the ESDA who are paid City employees or officers,
if called for training by the State Director of the Emergency Management
Agency, shall receive for the time spent in such training the same
rate of pay as is attached to the position held; members who are not
such City employees or officers shall receive for such training such
compensation as may be established by the Mayor.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The State Treasurer may receive and allocate to the appropriate
fund any reimbursement by the state to the City for expenses incident
to training members of the ESDA as prescribed by the State Director
of the Emergency Management Agency, compensation for services and
expenses of members of a mobile support team while serving outside
the City in response to a call by the Governor or State Director of
the Emergency Management Agency, as provided by law, and any other
reimbursement made by the state incident to ESDA activities as provided
by law.
A.
The Mayor may, upon recommendation of the City Coordinator of ESDA,
authorize any purchase of contracts necessary to place the City in
a position to combat effectively any disaster resulting from the explosion
of any nuclear or other bomb or missile, and to protect the public
health and safety, protect property and provide emergency assistance
to victims in the case of such disaster, or from man-made or natural
disaster.
B.
In the event of enemy-caused or other disaster, the City Coordinator
of ESDA is authorized on behalf of the City to procure such services,
supplies, equipment or materials as may be necessary for such purposes,
in view of the exigency, without regard to the statutory procedures
or formalities normally prescribed by law pertaining to City contracts
or obligations, as authorized by the Illinois Emergency Management
Agency Act (20 ILCS 3305/1 et seq.), and amendments thereto, provided
that if the Mayor and Council meet at such time, he shall act subject
to the directions and restrictions imposed by that body.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
Every person appointed to serve in any capacity in the City
ESDA organization shall, before entering upon his duties, subscribe
to the following oath, which shall be filed with the Coordinator:
"I, __________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support
and defend and bear true faith and allegiance to the Constitution
of the United States of America, and the Constitution of the State
of Illinois and the territory, institutions and facilities thereof,
both public and private, against all enemies, foreign and domestic;
that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation
or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge
the duties upon which I am about to enter. And I do further swear
(or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I, nor have I been a member
of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow
of the government of the United States or of this State by force or
violence; and that during such time as I am affiliated with the ESDA
organization, I will not advocate, nor become a member of any political
party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government
of the United States or of this State by force or violence."
The Mayor is authorized to designate space in a City building
or elsewhere as may be provided for by the Mayor for the City ESDA
as its office.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. I)]
The Mayor may make an appropriation for ESDA purposes in the
manner provided by law, and may levy in addition, for ESDA purposes
only, a tax not to exceed $0.05 per $100 of the assessed value of
all taxable property in addition to all other taxes, as provided by
the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act (20 ILCS 3305/1 et seq.),
and amendments thereto; however, that amount collectible under such
levy shall in no event exceed $0.25 per capita.
