[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 § 3]
As used in this section:
DECLARATION OF A STATE OR LOCAL EMERGENCY
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.
EMERGENCY
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.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FORCES
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.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT UNIT
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.
LOCAL 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.
MAYOR
Shall mean the Mayor, Deputy Mayor or the Acting Executive
Member of the Township Committee.
REGULATIONS
Shall mean and include plans, programs and other emergency
procedures promulgated in accordance with this section.
VOLUNTEERS
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 § 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 § 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:
2. Family disaster preparedness;
3. Disaster fire suppression;
5. CERT Operations in Weapons of Mass Destruction and Terrorism Incidents;
7. Basic emergency management; and
8. Disaster simulation - skills review.
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.