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.
As used in this chapter, "emergency"
shall mean 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 services,
personnel, equipment, and facilities of this City, requiring the combined
forces of other political subdivisions to combat.
The Walnut Disaster Council is hereby created and shall consist
of the following:
A. The
Mayor, who shall be chair.
B. The
City Manager, who shall be vice-chair, will act as Director of Emergency
Services.
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, 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 consent of
the City Council.
It shall be the duty of the Walnut Disaster Council, and it
is hereby 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 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.
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 subsection
3.12.060(A)(6)(c), b
e 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.
The Walnut Disaster Council shall be responsible for the development
of the City of Walnut 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 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.
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.
It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed
$500.00, 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 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.