Because of the existing and increasing possibility
of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness
resulting from enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile actions, or
from fire, flood, earthquake or any other cause, and in order to ensure
that preparations of this municipality will be adequate to deal with
such disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and
to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve the
lives and property of the people of this municipality, it is hereby
found and declared to be necessary to:
A. Create a Municipal Civil Defense Agency.
B. Provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other municipalities,
both in the State of New Jersey and other states which may require
aid.
C. Cooperate with the state government with respect to
carrying out civil defense and disaster control functions.
D. Create the office of Director of Civil Defense and
Disaster Control.
[Added 4-21-1975 by Ord. No. 494]
E. Create the office of Deputy Director of Civil Defense
and Disaster Control.
[Added 4-21-1975 by Ord. No. 494]
[Amended 4-21-1975 by Ord. No. 494]
It is further declared to be the purpose of
this chapter and the policy of this municipality that all civil defense
functions of this municipality be coordinated by the Director of Civil
Defense and Disaster Control, or, in his absence or at his direction,
by the Deputy Director of Civil Defense and Disaster Control, to the
maximum extent with the comparable functions of the state government,
including its various departments and agencies, of other municipalities
and of private agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective
preparations and use may be made of this municipality's resources
and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.
[Amended 4-21-1975 by Ord. No. 494]
It is further declared that the Municipal Civil
Defense and Disaster Control Director, or, in his absence or at his
direction, the Deputy Director of Civil Defense and Disaster Control,
may declare a state of local disaster emergency and initiate disaster
control operations whenever, in his opinion, a disaster has occurred
or is imminent, and it shall be the duty of all persons, firms or
others to obey all regulations, rules or directives issued either
by the State of New Jersey or any agency thereof, the County Coordinator
of Civil Defense and Disaster Control or any authorized member of
the county staff, or the Municipal Director of Civil Defense and Disaster
Control or any authorized officer. The Municipal Civil Defense and
Disaster Control Agency shall be governed by and shall act in strict
accordance with Chapter 251, P.L. 1942, as amended.
As provided in the Civil Defense and Disaster
Control Plan of the State of New Jersey, Section II, Division 2, Paragraph
(h), all requests for mutual aid from outside of this municipality
shall be forwarded through proper channels to the County Civil Defense
and Disaster Control Coordinator, and this municipality and all agencies
thereof are prohibited from sending assistance to another municipality
unless directed by the County Civil Defense and Disaster Control Coordinator.
[Amended 1-18-1971 by Ord. No. 393; 6-28-2005 by Ord. No.
1609; 12-13-2016 by Ord. No. 1951-2016]
The Municipal Court of the Township of Galloway
shall have jurisdiction in all complaints arising out of any violation
of any rule, regulation, ordinance or statute pertaining to civil
defense and disaster control, and any person, firm or corporation
found guilty of any such violation thereof shall be punishable by
a fine of not more than $2,000, imprisonment for not more than 90
days and/or a period of community service for not more than 90 days.