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 this City in the event of an emergency; the direction
of the emergency organization; and the coordination of the emergency
functions of this City with all other public agencies, corporations,
organizations and affected private persons.
(Prior code § 8.0)
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 this 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
service, personnel, equipment and facilities of this City, and requiring
the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.
(Prior code § 8.1)
The Claremont Disaster Council is created and shall consist
of the following:
A. The
Mayor, who shall be chair;
B. The
Director of Emergency Services, who shall be vice-chair;
C. The
Assistant Director of Emergency Services;
D. Such
chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in a current emergency
plan of this City;
E. Such
representative of civil 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 § 8.2)
The Claremont Disaster Council shall 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 chair, or, in his or her absence from
the City or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice-chair.
(Prior code § 8.3)
All officers and employees of this 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 2.48.060(A)(6)(c), are charged with duties incident to
the protection of life and property in this City during such emergency,
and shall constitute the emergency organization of the City.
(Prior code § 8.6)
The Claremont Disaster Council shall be responsible for the
development of the City's emergency plan, which plan shall provide
for the effective mobilization of all of the resources of this City,
both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local
emergency, state of emergency or state of war emergency, and shall
provide insofar as possible 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 § 8.7)
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 § 8.8)
It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed five
hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not to exceed six months,
or both, for any person during an 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. 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 this 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 § 8.9)