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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.
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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.
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Whenever an emergency occurs within the city, 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 is likely to require, the assistance and resources of other public or private local, regional or state agencies to combat, a local emergency may be declared by the mayor or the director of emergency services. Further, dependent upon the extent, nature and seriousness of the emergency, the mayor or the director may request the governor or the director of the state office of emergency services to declare a state of emergency.
In the event of the unavailability of the mayor or the director, the following officers of the city are authorized to make such a declaration or request in the order shown below.
A. The vice mayor.
B. The deputy director of emergency services.
C. The fire chief.
Any such declarations shall be confirmed by the city council at a meeting held within seventy two hours of the action.
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During the existence of a local emergency, state of emergency or state of war emergency, the seat of government of the city shall be the Chico Municipal Center. In the event such Center cannot be utilized as the seat of government due to severe damage or destruction, the director of emergency service shall provide an alternate seat of government, which may be located either within or outside the corporate limits of the city.
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Pursuant to the provisions of the California Emergency Services Act, to provide for the continuance of the city’s legislative and executive functions during a local emergency, state of emergency or state of war emergency, in the event that one, several or all of the members of the city council and the city manager are unavailable to fulfill their functions, the following standby officers are designated.
A. City council standby councilmembers. The city council shall appoint a group of three standby members for each regular councilmember and shall designate an order of precedence among the members of each group. A standby member shall serve in the stead of a regular member only to the extent and for the time so authorized by the California Emergency Services Act.
B. City manager standby designees. The following city officers are appointed to serve as standby city manager in the order of precedence shown.
1. Assistant City Manager
2. Public works director
3. Community development services director
Standby city councilmembers shall serve at the pleasure of the council for terms not exceeding in length the terms of the councilmembers for whom they were appointed. Standby city managers shall serve at the pleasure of the council.
(Ord. 2100, Ord. 2136 §3, Ord. 2154, Ord. 2364 §58, Ord. 2439 §20)
Pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 1, Division 2, Title 19 of the California Code of Regulations, the standardized emergency management system, incorporating the incident command system, shall be utilized by the city’s emergency services organization when:
A. The city’s emergency operations center is activated.
B. A local emergency, state of emergency or state of war emergency is declared or proclaimed.
C. Mutual aid is requested for an emergency.
Notwithstanding the above conditions requiring activation, such system may be employed by city emergency response personnel at any other time deemed appropriate and necessary relative to an incident.
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Pursuant to the authority granted in Chapter 3.08 of this code, any expenditures made in connection with any emergency activities, including mutual-aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the city.
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It shall be unlawful for any person during an emergency to:
A. Willfully obstruct, hinder or delay any member of the emergency services organization in the performance of any duty imposed upon such member by law or any lawful emergency rules or regulations.
B. Do any act forbidden by any lawful emergency services rules or regulations if such act is of such nature as to give, or be likely to give, assistance to the enemy or to imperil the lives or property of the inhabitants of the city, or to prevent, hinder or delay the defense or protection thereof.
C. Wear, carry or display without lawful authority any emergency services identification.
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