[Ord. 12-11-86 § 1]
This section shall be known and may be cited and referred to
as the "Emergency Management Ordinance".
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 2]
a.
It is the intent and purpose of this section to establish an Emergency
Management Unit that will provide for optimum use of the resources
of the Township for action in coordinating emergency operations.
b.
The Office of Emergency Management will be the coordinating unit
for all activity in connection with local emergencies and as required
by N.J. Statutes Chapter 251, P.L. 1942 as amended by Chapter 438,
P.L. 1953. (See now N.J.S.A. App. A:9-30 et seq.)
c.
This does not relieve any Township department or agency of the responsibilities
or authority given by State statute or by local ordinance nor is it
intended to adversely affect the work of any volunteer agency organized
for relief in emergencies.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 3]
As used in this section:
Shall mean a proclamation by the Emergency Management Coordinator,
upon recommendation by and concurrence of the Emergency Management
Coordinator, or his authorized deputy that an emergency has occurred
or is imminent which requires activation of all or part of the Township's
emergency management services, declaring that a State or local emergency
exists.
Shall mean any unusual set of circumstances which endangers
the health, safety, or resources of the residents of the Township,
and which is or may become too large in scope or is unusual in type,
to be handled in its entirety by normal operating Township services.
Shall mean the person appointed by the Mayor to coordinate
the emergency services of the Township.
Shall mean the employees, equipment and facilities of all
Township departments, boards, commissions and agencies; and, in addition,
all volunteer personnel, equipment and facilities contributed by or
obtained from volunteer persons, organizations or agencies.
Shall mean the emergency services of local government in
helping to carry out the basic governmental functions of maintaining
the public peace, health and safety during an emergency. This shall
include plans and preparations for protection from, and relief, recovery
and rehabilitation from the effects of an emergency.
Shall mean and include any emergency or the imminence thereof,
which affects the Township but is not so severe as to require action
by the Governor of New Jersey or the County Emergency Management Coordinator
as described in the Emergency Management Act, N.J.S.A. App. A:9-33,
et seq.
Shall mean the Mayor, Deputy Mayor or the Acting Executive
Member of the Township Committee.
Shall mean and include plans, programs and other emergency
procedures promulgated in accordance with this section.
Shall mean any person duly appointed by the Township Committee,
or Emergency Management Coordinator and assigned to participate in
emergency management activities, serving without remuneration.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 4]
a.
The Township Committee is hereby authorized to create an organization
for Emergency Management, utilizing the existing agencies within the
Township.
b.
The organization shall consist of the following:
1.
The Emergency Management Unit will be under the direction of the
Mayor. The Coordinator shall be the executive head of the unit. There
shall also be such deputies and assistants, appointed by the Coordinator
and approved by the Mayor, as are deemed necessary.
2.
The employees, equipment and facilities of all Township departments,
boards, agencies and commissions which will participate in Emergency
Management activities.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 5]
a.
The Mayor. Emergency powers and duties of the Mayor shall be as follows:
1.
During the period that the emergency proclamation remains in force, the Mayor may promulgate such regulations and take such other action as he deems necessary to protect life and property of the residents and to preserve critical resources. Regulations promulgated in accordance with this authority will be given as wide-spread circulation as possible by available means of communications. The regulations will have the force of ordinances when filed with the Township Clerk, and violations will be subject to the penalties provided in Chapter 1, Section 1-5 of this Code. Such regulations may include but shall not be limited to the following:
(a)
Regulations prohibiting or restricting the movement of vehicles
or persons to facilitate the work of emergency services forces, to
facilitate the movement of persons, emergency vehicles and equipment
to and from critical areas within and outside the Township.
(b)
Regulations pertaining to evacuation of persons from areas deemed
to be hazardous or vulnerable.
(c)
Regulations which close or regulate the hours of any premises
that is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages or gasoline.
(d)
Regulations that close or regulate the hours of any public place
of entertainment or premises which offer for sale food-stuffs or medicines.
(e)
Such other regulations necessary to preserve public peace, health,
safety and to conserve critical resources.
2.
The Mayor may request aid from contiguous or noncontiguous municipalities
when the emergency is beyond the capabilities and resources of local
Emergency Management forces. The State statutes and mutual aid agreements
shall govern such requests for aid outside of local resources.
3.
During the emergency, the Mayor may obtain vital supplies, equipment
and other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of
health, life and property of the people, and bill the Township for
the fair value thereof.
4.
The Mayor may, during the emergency, require the services of any
Township officer, employee or official to assist him or the emergency
services forces. All such duly authorized persons rendering emergency
services shall be entitled to the privileges and immunities as may
be provided by State law for other registered and identified Emergency
Management workers.
5.
The Mayor will cause to be prepared the plan hereinafter referred
to and will exercise his ordinary powers and any special powers conferred
upon him by ordinances of the Township or by any statute of the State
of New Jersey, to this end.
6.
The Mayor will require the Township Committee members to assemble
for a special meeting within 24 hours of the proclamation declaring
the emergency in the Township. The Mayor will review for the Committee
the status of the emergency and measures taken to restore the public
peace. The Mayor or Committee may request a verbal report from the
Emergency Coordinator and the Chief of Police.
b.
The Coordinator. The Coordinator shall be trained in planning operations
involving Emergency Management. The Coordinator shall be responsible
to the Mayor and Township Committee in regard to all phases of Emergency
Management activity. Under the supervision of the Mayor, he shall
plan and coordinate the operation of emergency services activity in
the Township. His duties shall include but shall not be limited to
the following:
1.
The Coordinator shall have the power to issue a written proclamation
that a state of emergency exists.
2.
Recruitment and training of volunteer personnel and agencies to augment
existing personnel and facilities of the Township.
3.
Develop an emergency operations center and an operation plan for
its use.
4.
Keep a file of the resources available within the Township both public
and private.
5.
Oversee the agreement by which owners, agencies, boards or organizations
of buildings may allow the use for sheltering persons in an emergency.
6.
Conduct practice operations to determine if emergency plans are efficient
and adequate.
7.
Coordinating all public and volunteer private agencies, boards or
organizations in their planning for emergency operations.
8.
Assuming such authority and responsibilities as the Mayor and Township
Committee may require to promote and develop the plan.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 6]
A comprehensive emergency operations plan ("The Plan") shall
be adopted and maintained by resolution of the Township Committee.
The Plan shall be prepared by the Coordinator and submitted to the
Township Committee.
When the Plan is approved, it shall be the duty of all departments
and agencies to perform the functions assigned by the Plan and to
maintain the portion of the Plan in a current state of readiness,
at all times.
The Plan shall be considered supplementary to this section and
have the effect of law whenever an emergency is declared by proclamation
locally or by the Governor of the State of New Jersey.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 7]
a.
This section is an exercise by the Township of its governmental function
for the protection of the public peace, health and safety. During
an emergency, neither the Township nor agents and representatives
of this Township, nor any individual, receiver, firm, partnership,
corporation, association, or trustee, nor any of the agents thereof,
in good faith carrying out, complying with or attempting to comply
with any order, rule or regulation promulgated pursuant to the provisions
of this section shall be liable for any damages sustained to persons
or property as the result of the activity.
b.
Any person owning or controlling real estate or other premises who
voluntarily and without compensation grants the Township the right
to inspect, designate and use the whole or any part or parts of such
real estate or premises for the purpose of sheltering persons during
an emergency, shall not be civilly liable for the death of or injury
to any persons on or about such real estate or premises under such
license, privilege or other permission, or for loss of or damage to
the property of such persons.
[Ord. 12-11-86 § 10]
At all times, when the orders, rules and regulations made and
promulgated pursuant to this section shall be in effect, they shall
supersede all existing ordinances, orders and regulations insofar
as the latter may be inconsistent therewith. This section is adopted
to compliment the New Jersey Emergency Management Act (N.J.S.A. App.
A:9-33, et seq.) and regulations promulgated thereunder and must be
read and interpreted in conjunction therewith.
[Ord. No. 2016-833]
There is hereby established in the Township of Green Brook a
Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), which shall have the duties
and powers hereinafter set forth. The members shall be appointed by
the Township Committee in accordance with the provisions of this Section
2.40A.
[Ord. No. 2016-833]
The mission, organization and purpose of the CERT is to provide
volunteer services for natural and other disasters to supplement and
assist police, fire and Emergency Management Services response to
a disaster. CERT members are volunteers that shall be only activated
under the authority of the Office of Emergency Management (OEM).
[Ord. No. 2016-833]
The CERT shall consist of members who shall be residents of
the Township, at least 18 years of age or older or at least 16 years
of age with parental consent.
a.
Members shall be appointed annually by the Township Committee at
the Township Annual Reorganization for a term to expire on December
31 of each year.
b.
The CERT Chief shall be appointed annually by the Township Committee
at the Township Annual Reorganization for a term to expire on December
31 of each year.
c.
New members may be added to the CERT at any point in the calendar
year by a recommendation of the CERT Chief to the Township Committee.
New member terms shall be through December 31 of that calendar year.
d.
Training. All CERT members will receive approximately 20 hours of
initial basic-level training as required by the Federal Emergency
Management Administration and will include:
e.
CERT members shall be graduates of an official CERT training program.
f.
Upon the recommendation of the CERT Chief to the Township Committee,
a CERT member may be removed at any time.
g.
No CERT member shall be permitted to act on any matter in which he
or she has, either directly or indirectly, any personal or financial
interest.
[Ord. No. 2016-833]
The primary purpose of the CERT shall be as set forth in subsection
2.40A.2. In doing so, the CERT shall work with the Township Committee,
Police Department, Fire/EMS Department, the Office of Emergency Management
and other boards, agencies and groups, whether or not connected with
the municipal government, in order to provide a resource for the community.
[Ord. No. 2016-833]
a.
The Township Committee is hereby authorized to appropriate public
funding as it deems appropriate for the benefit of or use by the CERT.
b.
Neither the CERT nor any member thereof shall have the power or the
right, expressed or implied, to bind or obligate the Township or the
Township Committee, directly or indirectly, for any financial undertaking.
