As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
EMERGENCY
Any type of threat of hazard that poses a threat to the lives,
property or environment within the Village of Pleasant Prairie.
EMERGENCY INTERIM SUCCESSOR
A person designated under this section, if the officer or
department head is unavailable, to exercise the powers and discharge
the duties of the position until a successor is appointed or elected
and qualified as provided by law or until the lawful incumbent is
able to resume the exercise of the powers and discharge the duties
of the position.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR
The Director coordinates emergency scenes, command posts,
or emergency operations centers to coordinate emergency response of
Village departments, mutual aid agencies, public and private agencies
and organizations; performs necessary administrative, planning, and
organizational duties; develops, revise and implement emergency operations
plans, and documents; attends training sessions and meetings.
EMERGENCY POWERS
The authority given to the Village of Pleasant Prairie to
take extraordinary actions in order to cope with a crisis.
UNAVAILABLE
During a state of emergency resulting from any cause, either
a vacancy in office exists and there is no deputy authorized to exercise
all of the powers and discharge the duties of the office, or the lawful
incumbent of the office and his or her duly authorized deputy are
absent or unable to exercise the powers and discharge the duties of
the position.
This chapter is enacted to provide authority
to the Pleasant Prairie Village Board, Village officers and Village
employees for actions that must be taken in response to various types
of emergencies or disasters that threaten the Village. It is intended
to grant as broad a power as permitted by statutory and constitutional
authority. Included are all activities and measures designed or undertaken
to minimize the effects upon the people of Pleasant Prairie that were
caused by natural or man-made disasters, or which would be caused
by enemy or other intentional action; to deal with the immediate emergency
conditions which would be created by such activities; and to effect
emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration of, vital public
infrastructure, utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by such
actions or disasters.
The Chief of Fire & Rescue, Emergency Management
Director and their designees shall have authority to suppress any
tumult or disorder and to order all individuals or companies to leave
the neighborhood of any fire or first aid scene and to command from
the inhabitants of the Village all needful assistance for the suppression
of fires and in the preservation of property exposed to fire. The
officers above enumerated shall also have authority to go upon and
enter any property or premises and to do whatever may reasonably be
necessary in the performance of their duties while engaged in the
work of extinguishing any fire or performing any duties incidental
thereto. Such officers shall also have authority to go upon and enter
any property or premises and do whatever may reasonably be necessary
in the performance of their duties while engaged in the work of aiding
persons or minimizing the loss to property, or at a first aid scene.
Nothing within this chapter shall be construed
to limit in any way the general police powers and authority of the
Village of Pleasant Prairie, its officers and officials.
Proclamations, rules, and orders issued pursuant
to this chapter shall be effective upon issuance and shall remain
in effect until withdrawn by the Village Board, Village President
or other issuing authority. However, those proclamations, rules, and
orders shall be withdrawn by the Village Board, Village President,
or other issuing authority and those persons acting pursuant to this
chapter shall cease to exercise emergency powers at such time as the
conditions giving rise to the emergency cease.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
Any person, adult or juvenile, violating a proclamation
of emergency, a subsequent proclamation exercising emergency powers,
a rule or order, which proclamation, rule or order is issued pursuant
to the provisions of this chapter, or any order or directive given
by a peace officer or designated emergency services personnel acting
pursuant to this chapter, shall be subject to a forfeiture of not
more than $200.