[Ord. 515, 6/3/2019]
The following words and phrases when used in this Part shall
have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context
clearly indicates otherwise:
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.
Pennsylvania Emergency Management Council.
A man-made disaster, natural disaster, or war-caused disaster.
Conditions which may, by investigation, be found, actually
or likely, to:
Have a deleterious effect on the safety, health, or welfare
of a substantial number of residents of this Township or which may
preclude the operation or use of essential public facilities;
Be of such magnitude or severity as to render essential state
supplementation of county and local efforts to alleviate the danger,
damage, suffering, or hardship faced; and
Have been caused by forces beyond the control of man, by reason
of civil disorder, riot or disturbance, or by factors not foreseen
and not known to exist when appropriation bills were enacted.
The judicious planning, assignment, and coordination of all
available resources in an integrated program of prevention, mitigation,
preparedness, response, and recovery for emergencies of any kind;
whether from attack, man-made or natural sources.
The preparation for and the carrying out of functions, other
than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible,
to prevent, minimize, and provide emergency repair of injury and/or
damage resulting from disasters, together with all other activities
necessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of
those functions. The functions include but are not limited to firefighting
services, police services, medical and health services, rescue, disasters,
communications, radiological, shelter, chemical, and other special
weapons defense, evacuation of persons from stricken areas, emergency
welfare services, emergency transportation, emergency resources management,
existing or properly assigned functions of plant protection, temporary
restoration of public utility services, and other functions related
to civilian protection.
The condition declared by the Board of Commissioners when,
in its judgement, the threat or actual occurrence of a disaster is
or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant
coordinated local governmental action to prevent or alleviate damage,
loss, hardship, or suffering threatened or caused thereby. A local
emergency arising in whole or substantially out of a resource shortage
may be declared only by the President or the Board of Commissioners,
when they deem the threat or actual occurrence of a disaster to be
of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant coordinated local
governmental action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss, hardship,
or suffering threatened or caused thereby.
Any industrial, nuclear, or transportation incident, explosion,
conflagration, power failure, natural resource shortage, or other
condition, except enemy action, resulting from man-made causes, such
as oil spills and other injurious environmental contamination causes
which threatens to cause substantial damage to life or property.
Any hurricane, tornado, storm, flood, high water, wind-driven
water, tidal wave, earthquake, land slide, mud slide, snow storm,
drought, fire, explosion or other natural catastrophe which results
or may result in substantial damage to life or property.
Any county, city, borough, incorporated town or township,
including the Township of West Lebanon.
The absence, unavailability, or reduced supply of any raw
or processed natural resource, or any commodities, goods, or services
of any kind which bear a substantial relationship to the health, safety,
welfare, economic wellbeing of the citizens of this commonwealth.
West Lebanon Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania.
Any condition following an attack upon the United States
resulting in substantial damage to property or injury to persons in
the United States caused by the use of bombs, missiles, shellfire,
nuclear, radiological, chemical, or biological means, or other weapons
or other paramilitary actions, or other conditions, including but
not limited to sabotage.
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Under the authority granted by Pa.C.S.A. § 7101 et
seq., a disaster emergency may be declared by the Board of Commissioners
upon finding a disaster has occurred or is imminent. The President
of the Board of Commissioners may declare a disaster emergency subject
to ratification by the Board. The declaration shall not be continued
or renewed for a period in excess of seven days, except by or with
the consent of the Board. Any order or resolution declaring, continuing,
or terminating a disaster emergency shall be given prompt and general
publicity and shall be filed promptly with Lebanon County and the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania emergency management agencies. The effect
of the declaration of a disaster emergency is to activate the response
and the recovery aspects of any and all applicable local emergency
management plans and to authorize the furnishing of aid and assistance
thereunder.
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1.
In the event of a declaration of a disaster emergency by the President or as provided in § 7-602, the Board of Commissioners, or the President of the Board, subject to ratification by the Board, may do the following:
A.
Authorize the Chief of Police or equivalent local official 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 any street, or to designate
any street, as a through street, prohibit or regulate the turning
of vehicles, prohibit or regulate use of designated streets, remove
any vehicle or vehicles parked in violation of such order, prohibit
and regulate movement of vehicles or persons on any street, and adopt
any other such traffic regulations as the circumstances may reasonably
require.
B.
Establish a curfew using prevailing time, at any time necessary to
control movement on the streets. During such curfew, no person shall
be on or remain upon any street or alley or other public place within
the Township, unless such person is going to or from a place of lawful
employment, hospital, a physician or other healthcare provider, or
performing a lawful duty directly related to the disaster emergency.
C.
To enter into mutual aid agreements with adjacent political subdivisions
for reciprocal emergency assistance consistent with plans and programs
of the agency.
D.
To render assistance in accordance with the provisions of any mutual
aid agreements.
E.
Where the President 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.
F.
To perform public work, enter into contracts, incur obligations,
employ temporary workers, rent equipment, purchase supplies and materials,
and to appropriate and expend public funds.
G.
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, safety, and welfare of the
community after evacuation.
H.
To regulate and control agricultural, commercial, and industrial
functions related to the security, health, safety, and welfare of
the Township.
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Any person who violates any provision of § 7-603(1)A
or B shall be fined for each violation not less than $200 and not
more than $1,000, and in default of payment, shall be imprisoned for
not more than 30 days.
