Note: Prior ordinance history: Ord. 2.
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 this emergency organization; and the coordination of the emergency functions of this city with all other public agencies, corporations and organizations and affected private persons.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
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.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
As used in this chapter, "local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage or earthquake or other conditions, 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 that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
The Moorpark disaster council shall consist of members of the city council. The mayor shall serve as chair and the mayor pro tempore shall serve as the vice chair.
(Ord. 430 § 1, 2014)
It shall be the duty of the disaster council 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 chair or, in such person's absence from the city or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice chair. The disaster council shall have such other powers, duties, and responsibilities of a local disaster council pursuant to state law.
(Ord. 430 § 2, 2014)
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There is created the office of director of disaster services. The city manager shall be the director of disaster services.
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Powers. The director is granted the following powers:
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To request city council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency as defined in Government Code Section 8558(c) if the city council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the city council is not in session, subject to ratification by the city council within seven days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect;
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To recommend that the mayor of the city request the governor to proclaim a state of emergency as defined in Government Code Section 8558(b) when, in the opinion of the director, the locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency;
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To control and direct the effort of the emergency organization of this city for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
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To direct cooperation between and coordination of services and staff of the emergency organization of this city; and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;
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To represent this city in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined in this chapter.
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Emergency Powers. In the event of a proclamation of a local emergency, as provided in this chapter, 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, as defined in Government Code Section 8558(a), the director is granted the following powers:
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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 city council;
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To obtain vital supplies, equipment and such other property found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and to bind the city 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 city officer or employee and, in the event of the proclamation of a state of emergency, in the city or state of war emergency to command the aid of as many citizens of this city 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;
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To requisition necessary personnel or material of any city department or agency;
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To execute all of his or her ordinary powers as city manager; all of the special powers conferred upon him or her by this chapter or by resolution or emergency plan adopted by the city council; all powers conferred upon him or her by any statute or agreement approved by the city council and any other lawful authority.
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Succession. The director shall designate the order of succession to his or her office subject to approval by the city council, which shall effect in the event the director is unavailable to attend meetings and otherwise perform his or her duties during an emergency.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
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Designation. There is created the office of assistant director of disaster services. The assistant director shall be appointed by the director.
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Powers. The assistant director shall, under supervision of the director and with the assistance of emergency service chiefs, develop emergency plans and manage the emergency program of this city; and shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
All officers and employees of this city, volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, persons commandeered into service under the provisions of Section 2.48.060 of this chapter, and all groups, organizations and persons who may by agreement or operation of law, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in this city during such emergency shall constitute the emergency organization of the city.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
The disaster council shall be responsible for development of the city emergency plan, which shall provide for the effective mobilization of 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 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.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)
It is unlawful for any person, during an emergency, to commit any of the following acts specified in the following subsections:
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To wilfully obstruct, hinder or delay any member of the emergency organization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation or the performance of any duty imposed upon him by virtue of this chapter;
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To 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 likely to give, assistance to the enemy, or imperil the lives or property of inhabitants of this city, or to prevent, hinder or delay the defense or protection thereof;
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To wear, carry or display without authority, any means of identification specified by the emergency agency of the state, county or city.
(Ord. 89-106 § 1, 1989)