Note: Chapter 2 entitled "Civil Defense", consisting of Sections 3-2.01 through 3-2.09, codified from Ordinance No. 1265, as amended by Ordinance No. 1288, amended in its entirety by Section 1, Ordinance No. 2201 c.s., effective March 16, 1977.
The declared purposes of this chapter are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within the City in the event of an emergency; the direction of the Emergency Organization; and the coordination of the emergency functions of the City with all other public agencies, corporations, and affected private persons.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
As used in this chapter, "emergency" shall mean the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the City caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the City, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
The Redondo Beach Disaster Council is hereby created and shall consist of the following:
(a) 
The Mayor, who shall be chairman;
(b) 
The Director of Emergency Services, who shall be vice-chairman;
(c) 
The Assistant Director of Emergency Services;
(d) 
Such chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in the current Emergency Plan of the City adopted pursuant to this chapter; and
(e) 
Such representatives of civic, business, labor, veteran, professional, or other organizations having an official emergency responsibility as may be appointed by the Director of Emergency Services with the advice and consent of the City Council.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
It shall be the duty of the Redondo Beach Disaster Council, and it is hereby empowered, to develop and recommend for adoption by the City Council emergency and mutual aid plans and agreements and such ordinances, resolutions, and rules and regulations as are necessary to implement such plans and agreements. The Disaster Council shall meet upon the call of the chairman or, in his absence from the City or inability to call such meeting, upon the call of the vice-chairman.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
(a) 
The Director of Emergency Services is hereby empowered to:
(1) 
Request the City Council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a "local emergency", if the City Council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the City Council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services, the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter, or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect;
(2) 
Request the Governor of the State to proclaim a "state of emergency" when, in the opinion of the Director of Emergency Services, the locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency;
(3) 
Control and direct the effort of the Emergency Organization of the City for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
(4) 
Direct cooperation between, and the coordination of, the services and staff of the Emergency Organization of the City and resolve questions of authority and responsibility which may arise between them;
(5) 
Represent the City in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined in Section 3-2.02 of this chapter; and
(6) 
In the event of the proclamation of a "local emergency" as provided in this subsection, the proclamation of a "state of emergency" by the Governor of the State or the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence of a "state of war emergency", the Director of Emergency Services is hereby empowered:
(i) 
To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations shall be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by the City Council;
(ii) 
To obtain the vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property, to bind the City for the fair value thereof, and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use;
(iii) 
To require the emergency services of any City officer or employee and, in the event of the proclamation of a "state of emergency" in the County or the existence of a "state of war emergency", to command the aid of as many citizens of this community as he deems necessary in the execution of his duties. Such persons shall be entitled to all the privileges, benefits, and immunities as are provided by State laws for registered disaster service workers;
(iv) 
To requisition the necessary personnel or materials of any City department or agency; and
(v) 
To execute all of his ordinary powers as City Manager, all of the special powers conferred upon him by this chapter or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant to this chapter adopted by the City Council, and all powers conferred upon him by any statute, by any agreement approved by the City Council, and by any other lawful authority.
(b) 
The Director of Emergency Services shall designate the order of succession to his office which shall take effect in the event he is unavailable to attend meetings and otherwise perform his duties during an emergency. Such order of succession shall be approved by the City Council.
(c) 
The Assistant Director of Emergency Services, under the supervision of the Director of Emergency Services and with the assistance of the emergency service chiefs, shall develop emergency plans, manage the emergency programs of the City, and have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the Director of Emergency Services.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
All officers and employees of the City, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, and all groups, organizations, and persons who may, by agreement or operation of law, including persons pressed into service under the provisions of subsection (iii) of subsection (6) of subsection (a) of Section 3-2.06 of this chapter, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in the City during such emergency, shall constitute the Emergency Organization of the City.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
The Redondo Beach Disaster Council shall be responsible for the development of the City of Redondo Beach Emergency Plan, which shall provide for the effective mobilization of all of the resources of the City, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency, state of emergency, or state of war emergency and which plan shall provide for the organization, powers and duties, services, and staff of the Emergency Organization. Such plan shall take effect upon adoption by resolution of the City Council.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
Any expenditures made in connection with emergency activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the City.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977)
Upon proclamation or declaration of an emergency within or including the City by the Director of Emergency Services or the City Council pursuant to Section 3-2.06 of this chapter, or by state or federal officials and for a period of 30 days after the date the emergency is declared terminated, It is unlawful for any person within the City to sell or offer for sale any goods or services, including, but not limited to, emergency supplies, water, food, clothing, building materials, medical supplies and fuel for an amount which exceeds 10% of the price regularly and customarily charged by such person for the goods and/or services on the day immediately before the date of the proclamation or declaration of an emergency. The foregoing 10% price increase limitation shall not apply to the extent that the person can prove that, (a) the increase in price of greater than 10% was unavoidable and directly attributable to additional costs imposed upon the person by the supplier of the goods or services and, (b) that without a greater than 10% increase in price, the person would not be able to earn a fair rate of return on investment.
(§ 1, Ord. 2201 c.s., eff. March 16, 1977, as amended by § 1, Urgency Ord. 2690 c.s., eff. April 7, 1993, and § 2, Ord. 2737 c.s., eff. January 5, 1995)
It shall be a unlawful for any person during an emergency within the City to:
(a) 
Willfully obstruct, hinder, or delay any member of the Emergency Organization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by virtue of this chapter;
(b) 
Do any act forbidden by any lawful rules, regulations, or emergency orders issued pursuant to this chapter;
(c) 
Wear, carry, or display, without authority, any means of identification specified by the emergency agency of the State.
(§ 2, Ord. 2737 c.s., eff. January 5, 1995)
(a) 
Any person who shall be convicted of violating the provisions of this chapter shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Each day that a violation of this chapter occurs shall be considered a separate offense.
(b) 
In addition to the foregoing, the City Attorney or any citizen of the City may prosecute a civil action to enforce Section 3-2.10 and in any successful action obtain such legal and equitable relief, including the recovery of actual damages and reasonable attorney's fees, as may be imposed by the court.
(§ 2, Ord. 2737 c.s., eff. January 5, 1995)