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, organizations and affected private
persons.
(Prior code § 1-4.40)
As used in this chapter, "emergency"
means 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 or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions
resulting from war or imminent threat of 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.
(Prior code § 1-4.41)
The city disaster council is 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 a current emergency plan of the city, adopted pursuant
to this chapter;
E. Such representatives of civic, business,
labor, veterans, professional, or other organizations having an official
emergency responsibility, as may be appointed by the director with
the advice and consent of the city council.
(Prior code § 1-4.42)
It shall be the duty of the city
disaster council, and it is empowered, to develop and recommend for
adoption by the city council, emergency and mutual aid plans and agreements
and such ordinances and resolutions and rules and regulations as are
necessary to implement such plans and agreements. The disaster council
shall meet upon call of the chairman or, in his or her absence from
the city or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice
chairman.
(Prior code § 1-4.43)
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 impressed into service
under the provisions of Section 2.44.060(A)(6)(c) of this chapter,
be charged with the duties incident to the protection of life and
property in the city during such emergency, shall constitute the emergency
organization of the city.
(Prior code § 1-4.46)
The disaster council shall be responsible
for the development of the city emergency plan, which plan 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 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.
(Prior code § 1-4.47)
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.
(Prior code § 1-4.48)
It shall be a violation of the provisions
of this code for any person, during an emergency, as defined in this
chapter, to:
A. Wilfully 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 rule
or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter, if such act is of such
a nature as to give or be likely to give assistance to the enemy or
to imperil the lives or property of inhabitants of the city, or to
prevent, hinder or delay the defense or protection thereof;
C. Wear, carry or display, without authority,
any means of identification specified by the emergency agency of the
state.
(Prior code § 1-4.49; Ord. 1222 § 6, 1985)