The Emergency Services Director shall have the following powers and duties:
(A) To request the City Council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local emergency if the Council is in session; or to issue such proclamation if the Council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Emergency Services Director, the local emergency shall not remain in effect for a period in excess of seven days unless it has been ratified by the City Council;
(B) Control and direct the activities of the city’s emergency organization, including appointing persons to particular positions within the organization and to assign the powers and duties of the positions for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter;
(C) Direct cooperation between and coordination of services and staff of the emergency organization of the city and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;
(D) Represent the city in dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined herein;
(E) In the event of the proclamation of a "local emergency" as herein provided, the proclamation of a "state emergency" by the Governor or the Director of the State Office of Emergency Services, the Director is empowered:
(1) To use reasonable city resources for the preservation of life and property and to reduce the effects of an emergency or disaster;
(2) To obtain vital supplies, equipment and other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property by either obligating the city for payment of the fair value thereof or by commandeering same for public use;
(3) To delegate to and impose upon elected and appointed officials of the city such duties and powers as deemed necessary;
(4) To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by any emergency proclaimed as provided in this chapter; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practical time by the City Council;
(5) To require emergency services of the city officers and employees and to command the aid of as many citizens of the city as necessary in the execution of duties, such persons shall be entitled to all privileges, benefits and immunities as are provided by state law for registered disaster service workers; and
(6) To execute all powers conferred by this chapter or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant hereto adopted by the City Council, all powers conferred by any statute, by any agreement approved by the City Council and by any other lawful authority;
(F) In addition to the powers granted in this chapter, the Director shall have such powers incidental to the performance of his or her duties as the Director as shall be necessary to allow him or her to carry out the Emergency Operations Plan of the city, it being the intent of this chapter that the powers enumerated in it are not intended to be limitations upon his or her powers.
(`78 Code, § 2.52.110.) (Ord. 3053 § 1 (part), 2010; Ord. 2429 § 11, 1999; Ord. 2029 § 3, 1990.)