§ 30.01 STATE OF EMERGENCY; RESTRICTIONS AUTHORIZED.
   (A)   A state of emergency shall be deemed to exist whenever there is an occurrence or imminent threat of widespread or severe damage, injury, or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or human-made accidental, military, paramilitary, terrorism, weather-related, public health, explosion-related, riot-related cause, or technological failure or accident, including, but not limited to, a cyber incident, an explosion, a transportation accident, a radiological accident, or a chemical or other hazardous material incident.
   (B)   In the event of an existing or threatened state of emergency endangering the lives, safety, health, and welfare of the people of the town or any part thereof, or threatening damages to or destruction of property, the Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered under G.S. § 166A-19.22 to issue a public proclamation declaring to all persons the existence of such a state of emergency, and, in order to more effectively protect the lives and property of people within the county, to place in effect any or all of the restrictions hereinafter authorized.
   (C)   The Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to limit by the proclamation the application of all or any part of such restrictions to any area specifically designated or described within the town and to specific hours of the day or night; and to exempt from all or any part of such restrictions, while acting in the line of and within the scope of their respective duties, law enforcement officers, firefighters and other public employees, rescue squad members, doctors, nurses, employees of hospitals and other medical facilities; on-duty military personnel, whether state or federal; on-duty employees of public utilities, public transportation companies, and newspaper, magazine, radio broadcasting, and television broadcasting corporations operated for profit; and such classes of persons as may be essential to the preservation of public other and immediately necessary to serve the safety, health, and welfare needs of the people of the town.
(Prior Code, § 2001)