To ensure that the Village of Somers will be prepared to cope
with emergencies resulting from enemy action and with emergencies
resulting from man-made and natural disasters, an emergency government
organization is created to carry out the purposes set out in § 166.01
through § 166.10, Wis. Stats., and to further provide for
a provision by the Village which shall be parallel to the same adopted
by the County of Kenosha providing for joint action emergency government.
(A)
EMERGENCY GOVERNMENT — Includes civil defense and means all
measures undertaken by or on behalf of the State of Wisconsin and
its subdivisions:
(B)
CIVIL DEFENSE — All those activities and measures designed
or undertaken:
(1)
To minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused,
or which would be caused, by enemy action.
(2)
To deal with the immediate emergency conditions which would
be created by such enemy action.
(3)
To effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration
of, vital public utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by
such enemy action.
(C)
ENEMY ACTION — Hostile action by a foreign power which threatens
the security of this State, or portion thereof.
(D)
NATURAL DISASTER — All other extraordinary misfortunes affecting
the County, natural or man-made, not included in the term "ENEMY ACTION."
(A)
There is hereby created an Emergency Government Committee to be composed
of the members of the Somers Village Board, the Municipal Deputy of
Emergency Government and such additional members as the Village Board
shall nominate and appoint. The President of the Village Board shall
serve as Chairperson of the Emergency Government Committee and the
Deputy Director of Emergency Government shall serve as secretary.
The term for each committeeman shall be for two years and until his
successor is appointed and takes office.
(B)
The Village Emergency Government Committee shall be an advisory and
planning group and shall cooperate with the Village President and
Director of Emergency Government on all matters pertaining to emergency
government and shall do so in cooperation with the Kenosha County
Emergency Government Committee. It shall meet upon the call of the
Chairperson.
The office of County Emergency Government Director provided
in the General Code of Kenosha County shall be the Joint Director
for the office of County Emergency Government and the Village of Somers
Emergency Government. The Village Board shall appoint a Municipal
Deputy Emergency Government Director for the Village who shall be
a resident of the Village and shall assist the director and be under
the administrative direction of the County Emergency Government Director.
Cooperative arrangements and agreements between the Village and County
of Kenosha for emergency government shall be as provided in § 66.301,
Wis. Stats.
Whenever it shall be deemed necessary by either the County Emergency
Government Committee, or the Emergency Government Committee of the
Village of Somers participating in joint action, there shall be a
joint meeting of the Committees.
The deputy Director of Emergency Government for the Village
in cooperation with and under the direction of the Kenosha County
Emergency Government Director shall participate in such joint action
as shall be necessary, including:
(A)
Direct the Village emergency government organization.
(B)
Develop, promulgate, and integrate into the County plan, emergency
government plans for the operating services of the Village.
(C)
Direct participation of the Village in such emergency government
training programs and exercises as may be required on the County level
or by the State Administrator.
(D)
Direct the Village emergency government training programs and exercises.
(E)
Perform all administrative duties necessary for the rendering of
reports and procurements of federal matching funds.
(F)
In case of a state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor, direct
the activities of the Village emergency government organization.
(G)
Perform such other duties relating to emergency government as may
be required by the Somers Village Board.
(A)
Policy. In preparing and executing the emergency government program,
the services, equipment, supplies and facilities of the existing departments
and agencies of the Village shall be utilized to the maximum extent
practicable; and the officers and personnel of all such departments
and agencies are directed to cooperate with and extend such services
and facilities as are required of them.
(B)
Joint Action. Municipalities entering into joint action with Kenosha
County will provide for utilization of existing services of municipal
government by enactment of a provision parallel to county provision.
(C)
Cost of Equipment And Services. Cost of equipment and services which
may be procured by the Village shall be borne or shared by the Village
as required by State Statutes and regulations relating to Federal
matching funds for such equipment and services.
No person shall willfully obstruct, hinder or delay any member
of the emergency government organization in the enforcement of any
order, rule, regulation or plan issued pursuant to the authority contained
in this Chapter. Whoever intentionally fails to comply with the directives
of emergency government authority promulgated under this Chapter during
a state of emergency or during any training program or exercises,
shall be subject to a forfeiture of not less than $100 nor more than
$200 and, in default of payment, may be imprisoned in the County Jail
for not more than 90 days.
