The purpose of this chapter is to provide for the preparation
and execution of plans designed for the protection of persons and
property in an emergency or disaster. It provides for direction of
emergency services in the City and for the coordination, with all
other City departments, public agencies, corporations, organizations,
and affected private persons, situated in whole, or in part, within
the San Diego County operational area, including incorporated cities
which have acted voluntarily to accept such coordination, unification
and consolidation, and with other affected persons, corporations and
organizations. It also provides:
A.
A description
of the Unified San Diego County Emergency Services Organization in
the San Diego County Operational Area and the City of Santee's
participation therein;
B.
Authorization
for activities which will mitigate hazardous conditions, the preparation
of Citywide plans, and the development and execution of joint agreements
in the San Diego County Operational Area for such services that are
Countywide;
C.
That
all City expenditures made in connection with such emergency services
activities, including mutual aid activities, are deemed conclusively
to be for the direct protection and benefit of all the inhabitants
and property in the City of Santee.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
means the Board of Supervisors of San Diego County, California.
means an order establishing a time in which certain regulations
apply, especially that no unauthorized person or persons may be outdoors
or that places of public assembly must be closed.
means the Director of Emergency Services.
means an actual incident or threatened existence of conditions
of incidents 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, civil disorder, or earthquake, or other conditions
which may be or are beyond control of the services, personnel, equipment,
and facilities of the City.
means the Emergency Services Council of the City of Santee,
California.
means the plan that identifies the actual operational procedures
for mitigating emergency incidents within the City.
means the plan which determines the authority and responsibilities
for the mitigation of emergency incidents within the City consistent
with the SEMS as required by Government Code Section 8607(a) for management
of response to emergency incidents.
means the San Diego County Unified Emergency Services Agreement,
to which the City is a party.
means the Incident Command System which is the combination
of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications
operating within a common organizational structure with responsibility
for the management of assigned resources to effectively accomplish
stated objectives pertaining to an emergency.
means the duly proclaimed existence within the City of conditions
of emergency or disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons
and property within the City caused by such conditions as air pollution,
civil disorder, earthquake, epidemic, fire, flood, storm, or other
conditions.
means the laws that are invoked and administered by military
forces in an emergency when civilian law enforcement agencies are
unable to maintain public order and safety.
means the Standardized Emergency Management System as required
by Government Code Section 8607(a) for management of responses to
emergency incidents in California.
means the duly proclaimed existence within the State of conditions
of emergency or disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons
and property within the City caused by such conditions as air pollution,
civil disorder, earthquake, epidemic, fire, flood, storm, or other
conditions.
means the condition which exists immediately, with or without
a proclamation thereof by the Governor whenever the State or Nation
is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the
State of a warning from the Federal government indicating that such
an enemy attack is probable or imminent.
means the group which serves as the policy making body of
the Unified Emergency Services Organization.
means the group created for the purpose of coordinating and
facilitating operational area plans and programs for the preservation
and safety of life and property in the event of emergencies.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
The Emergency Council is created and consists of the following:
A.
The
Mayor, who is the chairperson;
B.
The
Director, who is vice-chairperson;
C.
The
Assistant Director of Emergency Services;
D.
Such
department heads and/or chiefs of Emergency Services as are provided
for in the current emergency operations and/or preparedness 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 approval of
the City Council.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
It is the duty of the Emergency 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 Emergency Council must meet once a year and upon
the call of the chairperson or, in the chairperson's absence
from the City or inability to call such meeting, upon the call of
the vice chairperson.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
A.
The
City Manager is the Director of Emergency Services.
B.
The
Director of Fire and Life Safety serves as the Assistant Director
of Emergency Services.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
A.
The
Director is 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, the City Council
must take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter
or the proclamation will have no further notice or effect;
2.
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;
3.
Control
and direct the efforts of the emergency organization of the City for
the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
4.
Direct
cooperation between the coordination of services and staff of the
emergency organization of the City, and resolve questions of authority
and responsibility that may arise between them;
5.
Represent
the City in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters
pertaining to emergencies as defined herein;
6.
In
the event of a proclamation of a local emergency as herein provided,
the proclamation of a state of emergency by the Governor or by the
Director of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence
of a state of war emergency, the Director is hereby empowered:
a.
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 City Council,
b.
To obtain vital supplies, equipment, services, and such other properties
found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and
to bind the City for fair value thereof and, if required immediately,
to commandeer the same for public use,
c.
To require emergency services of any City employee, and, in the event
of the proclamation of a state of emergency in the County in which
the City is located or the existence of a state of war emergency,
to commandeer the aid of as many citizens of the community as the
Director may deem necessary in the execution of the Director's
duties; such persons will be entitled to all privileges, benefits,
and immunities as are provided by State law for registered disaster
service workers,
d.
To requisition necessary personnel or material of any City department
or agency, and
e.
To execute all ordinary powers as City Manager, all of the special
powers conferred upon the Director by this chapter or by resolution
or emergency plan pursuant hereto adopted by the City Council, and
by any other lawful authority.
B.
The
Director must designate the order of succession to that office, to
take effect in the event the Director is unavailable to attend meetings
and otherwise perform duties during an emergency. Such order of succession
must be approved by the City Council.
C.
The
Assistant Director is empowered to:
1.
Develop
emergency plans, and manage the emergency programs and services of
the City;
2.
Attend
and represent the City at all meetings of the Unified Disaster Council;
3.
Attend
and represent the City at meetings of local, State, and Federal emergency
services, and disaster services organizations;
4.
Act
for and have all the powers and duties of the Director in the Director's
absence;
5.
Serve
as the incident manager for all emergency incidents within the City;
6.
Such
other powers and duties as may be assigned by the Director.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
All 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 Section 2.32.060(A)(6)(c), charged with the duties incident to the protection of life and property in the City during such emergency, constitute the emergency organization of the City.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
The Director of Fire and Life Safety is responsible for the
development of the City emergency preparedness plan, which must provide
for the effective mobilization of all resources of the City, both
public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency,
and for the organization, powers and duties, services, and staff of
the emergency organization. Such plan takes effect upon adoption of
a resolution by the City Council and may include a continuity of operations
element that may be updated as staff changes, without action by the
City Council.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
A.
The
Director of Fire and Life Safety is responsible for the development
of the City emergency operational plan, which must provide for the
effective response to various categories of emergencies, including,
but not limited to, apparatus type, personnel, and communications.
B.
The
Fire and Life Safety Director has the authority by this chapter to
update this plan as necessary, in order to meet the latest emergency
management operational guidelines.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
The City's emergency preparedness plan and emergency operational
plan must conform to the Incident Command System and its definitions.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
The City's Emergency Preparedness Plan must conform to
the Standardized Emergency Management System as required by Government
Code Section 8607(a) for management of response to emergency incidents.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
During a local emergency, the Director, or officials designated
thereby, may promulgate orders and regulations necessary to provide
for the protection of life and property, including orders or regulations
imposing a curfew within designated boundaries where necessary to
preserve the public order and safety. Such orders and regulations
and amendments and rescissions thereof must be in writing and be given
widespread publicity and notice.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
The Director may, in the event of an emergency, order all business within the City to not increase prices on goods sold to citizens of the City, pursuant to Chapter 7.36. Furthermore it is a violation of this chapter for businesses within the City to knowingly and maliciously raise prices of goods such as fuel, food items, emergency survivor items, etc., during such an emergency event.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
It is a misdemeanor for any person, during a state of war emergency,
state of emergency or local emergency, 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
or her by virtue of this chapter;
B.
Perform
any act forbidden by lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to
this chapter, if such act is 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.
(Ord. 555 § 3, 2019)
