(A) A state of emergency shall be deemed to exist whenever during times of great public crises, disaster, rioting, civil disturbance, and catastrophe or for any other reason, municipal public safety authorities are unable to maintain public order or afford adequate protection for lives, safety, health, welfare, or property.
(B) In the event of a state of emergency threatening or endangering the lives, safety, health, and welfare of the people within the town or threatening damage to or destruction of property, the Council is authorized and empowered to issue a public proclamation declaring to all persons the existence of such a state of emergency, and in order more effectively to protect the lives, safety, and property of the town, to define and impose a curfew applicable to all persons within the jurisdiction of the municipality and to specific hours of the day or night; and to exempt from the curfew police officers, fire fighters, doctors, nurses, and such others as may be essential to the preservation of public order and immediately necessary to serve the needs of the people within the town.
(Prior Code, § 2.1115) (Ord. 2015-02, passed 3-16-2015)