(A) Financing.
(1) It is the intent of the City Council and declared to be the policy of the municipality that every effort shall be made to provide funds for disaster emergencies.
(2) It is the City Council’s intent that the first recourse shall be to funds regularly appropriated to the agency. If the Mayor finds that the demands placed upon these funds in coping with a particular disaster are unreasonably great and the Governor has proclaimed the municipality a disaster, he or she may make application for funds from the State Disaster Relief Fund. If monies available from the Fund are insufficient and if the Mayor finds that other sources of money to cope with the disaster are not available or are insufficient, he or she shall issue a call for an immediate session of the City Council for the purpose of enacting ordinances, as the City Council may deem necessary, to transfer and expend monies appropriated for other purposes or borrow monies from the United States government or other public or private sources. If less than a quorum of the members of the City Council is capable of convening in session to enact such ordinances for the transfer, expenditure, or loan of such monies, the Mayor is authorized to carry out those decisions until such time as a quorum of the City Council can convene.
(3) Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to limit the Mayor’s authority to apply for, administer, and expend grants, gifts, or payments in aid of disaster prevention, preparedness, response, or recovery.
(Prior Code, § 30-3-6)
(B) Appropriations and levy of tax. The City Council may make appropriations for emergency management operations in the manner provided by law for making appropriations for the ordinary expenses of such political subdivision. The City Council may also levy, for emergency management operations, a tax not to exceed 0.05% of the full, fair cash value as equalized or assessed by the Department of Revenue on all taxable property in the municipality for the current year. However, the amount collectible under such a levy shall in no event exceed $0.25 per capita. The annual tax shall be in addition to and in excess of the amount authorized to be levied for general corporate purposes.
(Prior Code, § 30-3-13)
(C) Authority to accept services, gifts, grants, or loans. Whenever the federal or state governments or any agency or officer thereof or whenever any person, firm, or corporation shall offer to the municipality services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds by way of gift or grant for purposes of emergency management, the municipality, acting through the Mayor or through its City Council, may accept such offer, and upon such acceptance, the Mayor or the City Council may authorize any officer of the municipality to receive such services, equipment, supplies, materials, or funds on behalf of the municipality.
(Prior Code, § 30-3-14)