Whenever, in the judgment of the Mayor, or in the event of his
inability to act, the president of the governing body, determines
that an emergency exists as a result of mob action or other civil
disobedience within the Kansas City Standard Metropolitan Statistical
Area causing danger or injury to or damage to persons or property,
he shall have power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following
regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the City:
(a)
To impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the City thereby requiring
all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves,
and/or their motor vehicles, from the public streets, alleys, public
parking lots, parks or other public places: Provided, That physicians,
nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility
personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen and City
authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may
be exempted from such curfew.
(b)
To order the closing of any business establishment anywhere within
the City for the period of the emergency, such businesses, including
but not limited to, those selling intoxicating liquors, cereal malt
beverages, gasoline or firearms.
(c)
To designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking area
closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
(d)
To call upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations
within or without the City, including the sheriffs department under
provisions of mutual emergency police protection compact, to assist
in preserving and keeping the peace within the City.
(e)
That any and all of said regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies,
organizations and their individual officers shall have the full power
and authority to make arrests and to act on behalf of the City in
order to enforce the provisions provided for herein and any and all
other City ordinances that might be violated as a result of any mob
action or other civil disobedience.
(f)
The Mayor is hereby authorized to enter into a mutual emergency police
protection compact with any and all governing bodies of Johnson County,
Kansas, and any other duly authorized governing body within the Kansas
City Standard Metropolitan Area.
The proclamation of emergency provided herein shall become effective
upon its issuance and dissemination to the public by appropriate news
media.
Any emergency proclaimed in accordance with the provisions of
this ordinance shall terminate after 48 hours from the issuance thereof,
or upon the issuance of a proclamation determining an emergency no
longer exists, whichever occurs first: Provided, That such emergency
may be extended for such additional periods of time as determined
necessary by resolution of the governing body.
Any person who shall willfully fail or refuse to comply with
the orders of duly authorized law enforcement officers or personnel
charged with the responsibility of enforcing the proclamation of emergency
authorized herein shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction therefor, shall be punished by a fine of not more than
$500 and/or by imprisonment in the City or county jail for a period
not to exceed 90 days.
Nothing herein contained shall be in lieu of any civil damages.
Ref. Ord. No. 72.
