The declared purposes of this article are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within this county in the event of an emergency; the direction of the emergency organization; and the coordination of the emergency functions of this county with all other public agencies, corporations, organizations, and affected private persons.
(Prior code § 6.0)
As used in this article, "emergency" means the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the county caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, 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 county, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requiring extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
(Prior code § 6.1)
The Placer County disaster council is created and shall consist of the following:
A. 
The county executive officer, who shall be chairperson;
B. 
The assistant director of emergency services, who shall be vice-chairperson;
C. 
Such chiefs of emergency services as are appointed by the board of supervisors, provided for in a current emergency plan of the county;
D. 
Such representative of civic, business, labor, veterans, professional, or other organizations having an official emergency responsibility, as may be appointed by the board of supervisors.
(Prior code § 6.10; Ord. 5398-B § 2, 2006)
It shall be the duty of the Placer County disaster council, and it is empowered, to develop and recommend for adoption by the board of supervisors, 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 chairperson or, in his or her absence from the county or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice-chairperson.
(Prior code § 6.20)
The director is empowered to:
A. 
Request the board of supervisors to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a "local emergency" if the board of supervisors is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the board of supervisors is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the director, the board of supervisors shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter, or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect. The board of supervisors shall review the proclamation at least every 60 days, or as Cal. Government Code Section 8630 may be amended from time to time, until such local emergency is terminated. The board of supervisors shall proclaim the termination of such local emergency at the earliest date the conditions warrant.
B. 
Request the Governor to proclaim a "state of emergency" when, in the opinion of the director, the locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency.
C. 
Control and direct the effort of the emergency organization of the county for the accomplishment of the purposes of this article.
D. 
Direct cooperation between and coordination of services and staff of the emergency organization of the county; and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them.
E. 
Represent the county in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined in this article.
F. 
In the event of the proclamation of a "local emergency" as herein provided, the proclamation of a "state of emergency" by the Governor or the director of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence of a "state of war emergency," the director is empowered:
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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 must be confirmed at the earliest practicable time by the board of supervisors;
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To obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and to bind the county for the fair value thereof and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use;
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To require emergency services of any county officer or employee and, to command the aid of as many citizens of the county as he or she deems necessary in the execution of his or her duties; such persons shall be entitled to all privileges, benefits, and immunities as are provided by state law for registered disaster service workers;
4. 
To requisition necessary personnel or material of any county department or agency; and
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To execute all of his or her ordinary power as county executive officer, all of the special powers conferred upon him or her by this article or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant hereto adopted by the board of supervisors, all powers conferred upon him or her by any statute, by any agreement approved by the board of supervisors, and by any other lawful authority.
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The director of emergency services shall designate the order of succession to that office, to take effect in the event the director is unavailable to attend meetings and otherwise perform his or her duties during an emergency. Such order of succession shall be approved by the board of supervisors.
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The assistant director shall, under the supervision of the director and with the assistance of emergency service chiefs, develop emergency plans and manage the emergency programs of the county; and shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director.
(Prior code § 6.40; Ord. 5751-B § 1, 2014; Ord. 5974-B § 1, 2019)
All officers and employees of the county, 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 2.88.060(F)(3), be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in the county during such emergency, shall constitute the emergency organization of the county of Placer.
(Prior code § 6.50)
The Placer County disaster council shall be responsible for the development of the county of Placer emergency plan, which plan shall provide for the effective mobilization of all of the resources of the county, 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 board of supervisors.
(Prior code § 6.60)
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 county of Placer.
(Prior code § 6.70)
It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed $1,000, or by imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or both, for any person, during a state of war emergency, state of emergency, or local emergency, to:
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Wilfully obstruct, hinder, or delay any member of the emergency organization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this article, or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him or her by virtue of this article.
B. 
Do any act forbidden by any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to the ordinance codified in this article, 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 county, 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 § 6.80; Ord. 5006-B, 1999)