[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Passaic 6-19-1975
by Ord. No. 297-75 as Section 3-2 of Chapter III of the Revised
General Ordinances of the City of Passaic, 1975. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Where there exists in the city a state of disaster or emergency brought
about by natural causes or by the action of any person and such state may
cause violence and injury to be inflicted upon people in the city and may
cause damage to and destruction of property of the people of the city and
in order to preserve the public peace and order, to prevent and quell riots,
disturbances and disorderly assemblages, all being against the health, safety
and welfare of the people of the city, the Mayor or the Acting Mayor shall
have the authority to declare that a state of disaster or emergency exists
and he shall have the authority and be empowered to issue:
A.
Orders, proclamations, rules and regulations necessary
to meet the various problems which have or may be presented by such emergency.
B.
Orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which
persons shall be prohibited from remaining upon the public streets, ways and
places in the city or upon any of the foregoing.
C.
Orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which
vehicular traffic shall be prohibited or restricted from traveling over the
streets in the city or any specified street or areas.
D.
Orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which
all businesses licensed by the city to dispense alcoholic beverages shall
be closed to business.
E.
Orders or proclamations regulating the hours during which
all sales of gasoline by gasoline service stations in the city shall be closed
to business.
F.
Orders or proclamations to be in effect until it is declared
that such an emergency no longer exists.
G.
Orders or proclamations prohibiting persons other than
those authorized by law to carry on or about his clothes or person or otherwise
have in his possession or under his control alcoholic beverages, narcotics,
firearms, weapons which may cause injuries to persons or property, explosives
or incendiary devices of any kind during this emergency.
The Mayor or Acting Mayor, upon declaring that a state of disaster or
emergency exists in the city, shall notify local newspapers and local radio
stations and request that the announced state of disaster or emergency be
publicized at once.
The judgment of the Mayor or Acting Mayor that a state of disaster or
emergency exists in the city and that it has caused or is likely to cause
injury and damage to persons and property within the city shall be final and
absolute.
After the Mayor or Acting Mayor has declared that a state of disaster or emergency exists in the city and has issued any order and proclamation as set forth in § 15-1, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to be upon the streets, ways or places in the city, to carry on or about his clothes or person or otherwise have in his possession or under his control alcoholic beverages, narcotics, firearms, weapons which can cause injuries to persons or property, explosives or incendiary devices of any kind in the city, to dispense alcoholic beverages or to sell gasoline at any gasoline service station during the hours prohibited by the order or proclamation unless otherwise permitted by the city.
