(A) The Fire Chief or his or her authorized representative shall have authority to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials within the village or affecting the public water supply, wells or sewage treatment works located within the village. This authority includes, but is not limited to, remedial action and removal.
(B) (1) The Fire Chief shall have primary authority to respond to any release or threatened release of hazardous materials as described above.
(2) The Fire Chief shall report any release or threatened release of hazardous materials to all appropriate federal, state and local public health, safety and emergency agencies within 24 hours of any substantial release of hazardous materials. The Fire Chief shall relinquish his or her response authority at the time, if any, as the federal, state or local public health, safety or emergency agency having primary jurisdiction over the release or threatened release has assumed responsibility for response to the release or threatened release.
(C) The Fire Chief, during the time as response authority is vested in him or her, shall be authorized to utilize all district personnel and equipment and he or she may, in his or her sole discretion, take remedial or removal action as he or she may deem necessary or appropriate to respond to the release or threatened release of hazardous material.
(D) All village personnel shall cooperate with and operate under the direction of the Fire Chief or other person then exercising response authority under this subchapter until the time as the person exercising the response authority has determined that the response is complete or responsibility for response is assumed by the federal, state or local public health, safety or emergency agency having primary jurisdiction over the release or threatened release.
(E) The person exercising response authority under this subchapter shall coordinate and/or cooperate with other federal, state or local public health, safety or emergency agencies involved in response to the release or threatened release of hazardous materials.
(Ord. 1492, passed 6-6-1992)