(a) Whenever, in his judgment, the Manager determines that an emergency exists as a result of mob action or other civil disobedience causing danger of injury or damage to persons or property, he shall have power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the Municipality:
(1) To impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the Municipality thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves from the public streets, alleys, parks or other public places. However, Councilmen, physicians, nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen and Municipally authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempt from such curfew.
(2) To order the closing of any business establishments anywhere within the Municipality for the period of emergency, such businesses to include, but not to be limited to, those selling intoxicating liquors, malt beverages, gasoline or firearms.
(3) To designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking area closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.
(4) To call upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within or without the Municipality to assist in preserving and keeping the peace within the Municipality.
(b) The proclamation of emergency provided herein shall become effective upon its issuance and dissemination to the public by appropriate news media.
(c) Any emergency proclaimed in accordance with the provisions of this section shall terminate after forty-eight hours from the issuance thereof, or upon the issuance of a proclamation determining that an emergency no longer exists, whichever occurs first. However, such emergency may be extended for such additional periods of time as determined to be necessary by the Manager. (Ord. 1968-10. Passed 7-9-68.)
(d) Whoever willfully fails or refuses to comply with the orders of duly authorized law enforcement officers or personnel charged with the responsibility of enforcing the proclamation of emergency authorized in this section is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.