Section:
ARTICLE I. GENERAL PROVISIONS
2.68.010 Purpose.
2.68.020 Definitions.
2.68.030 Declaration of local emergency or request for declaration of state of emergency - Director of emergency services authorized to declare - Authorized alternates - Confirmation of declarations required.
2.68.040 Seat of Government - Provision of alternate.
2.68.050 Continuity of government - Appointment of standby officers.
2.68.060 Standardized emergency management system - Incident command system - Adopted - When activated.
2.68.070 Emergency expenditures - Deemed valid.
2.68.080 Prohibited acts.
2.68.090 Penalty for violations.
ARTICLE II. OFFICE OF EMERGENCY SERVICES
2.68.100 Created.
2.68.110 Director of emergency services - Powers and duties.
This chapter is adopted pursuant to the municipal affairs provisions of the City Charter for the purposes of adopting the Standardized Emergency Management System for specified city emergency services operations pursuant to the requirements for such adoption contained in the provisions of the California Emergency Services Act, providing for emergency services not otherwise provided for in the city charter and other provisions of this code, establishing the emergency services organization of the city, authorizing the preparation and implementation of plans for the protection of persons and property within the city in the event of an emergency and assuring the coordination of the emergency services of the city with those of other public and private agencies and persons involved in the provision of such services during the occurrence of emergencies.
(Ord. 2100)
A. Deputy Director of Emergency Services. The assistant city manager of the city.
B. Director of Emergency Services. The city manager of the city.
C. Emergency Operations Center. A location from which centralized emergency management can be performed. In the context of this chapter, the city’s emergency operations center shall be those facilities located at the Chico Municipal Services Center or such other alternative location as may be designated by the Emergency Services Director in the event of the unavailability of the foregoing.
D. Emergency Services. The preparation for and carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, to prevent, minimize or repair death, injury and damage resulting from emergencies.
E. Emergency Services Organization. All officers and employees of the City, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, and all groups, organizations and persons who may, by agreement or operation of law, including persons impressed into service under the provisions of this chapter, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in the city during such emergency, shall constitute the emergency services organization of the city.
F. Emergency-Local (Local Emergency). The duly proclaimed existence of an emergency within the city pursuant to this chapter, the conditions of which are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, facilities and resources of the city and which will require, or are likely to require, the assistance and resources of other public or private local, regional or state agencies to combat.
G. Emergency-State of (State of Emergency). The duly proclaimed existence of an emergency within the state pursuant to state law, the conditions of which are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, facilities and resources of any single county, city and county, or city, and which will require, or is likely to require, the combined assistance and resources of a mutual aid region or regions to combat.
H. Emergency-State of War (State of War Emergency). The condition which exists immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor, whenever the state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon the receipt by the state of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.
I. Incident Command System. A nationally used, standardized on-scene emergency management concept specifically designed to allow its user(s) to adopt an integrated organizational structure equal to the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries. The incident command system is the combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures and communications operating with a common organizational structure, with responsibility for the management of resources to effectively accomplish stated objectives pertinent to an incident. Organizational elements of the incident command system are command (or management), operations, planning/ intelligence, logistics and finance administration.
J. Mutual Aid. The statewide system designed to ensure that adequate resources, facilities, personnel and other support are provided to jurisdictions whenever their own resources prove to be inadequate to cope with the requirements of a given emergency.
K. Operational Area. An intermediate level of the state emergency services organization, consisting of a county and all political subdivisions within the county. As used in the context of this chapter, operational area shall mean the County of Butte and its political subdivisions.
L. Standardized Emergency Management System. A system required by the California Emergency Services Act for managing response to multi-agency and multi- jurisdiction emergencies in California. The system consists of five organizational levels which are activated as necessary: field response; local government; operational area; region; state.
(Ord. 2100)
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