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, and to
provide for the coordination of the public agencies and affected private
persons, corporations and organizations.
(Prior code § 3600)
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 § 3601)
The Pico Rivera 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, appointed by the city manager with the advice
and consent of the city council who, under the supervision of the
director, shall develop emergency services plans and organize the
emergency services program of the city, and shall have such other
duties as may be assigned by the director;
D. Such
chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in the current emergency
plan of the city, adopted pursuant to the ordinance codified in 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 § 3602)
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
(A)(6)(a) of Section
2.52.060 of this chapter, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in the city during such disaster, shall constitute the emergency organization of the city.
(Prior code § 3606)
The 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 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 § 3607)
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 of Pico Rivera.
(Prior code § 3608)
It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed one
thousand dollars, or by imprisonment for not to exceed six months,
or both, for any person, during an emergency, 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
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 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, the county, county district,
or any city in the county;
D. Violate
any curfew or other emergency order or regulation established by any
lawful rule, regulation, order or directive issued pursuant to this
chapter. It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of a curfew
order that a person was traveling to or from work or school, was homeless,
or was seeking medical treatment.
(OOrd. 837 § 1, 1993)