§ 32.08 PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS GENERALLY.

   Any proclamation pursuant to this chapter may prohibit or restrict:

   (A)   Movements of people in public places, including any of the following:;

      (1)   Imposing a curfew;

      (2)   Directing and compelling the voluntary or mandatory evacuation of all or part of the population from any stricken or threatened area within the governing body’s jurisdiction;

      (3)   Prescribing routes, modes of transportation, and destinations in connection with evacuation;

      (4)   Controlling ingress and egress of an emergency area, and the movement of persons within that area; or

      (5)   Providing for the closure, within the emergency area, of streets, roads, highways, bridges, public vehicular areas, or other areas ordinarily used for vehicular travel, except to the movement of emergency responders and other persons necessary for recovery from the emergency;

   (B)   The operation of offices, business establishments, and other places to or from which people may travel or at which they may congregate;

   (C)   The possession, transportation, sale, purchase, and consumption of alcoholic beverages;

   (D)   The possession, transportation, sale, purchase, storage, and use of gasoline, and dangerous weapons and substances, except that this division does not authorize prohibitions or restrictions on lawfully possessed firearms or ammunition; and

   (E)   Other activities or conditions the control of which may be reasonably necessary to maintain order and protect lives or property during the state of emergency, within the area designated in the proclamation.

   Any proclamation authorized by this chapter need not require or provide for the imposition of all of the types of prohibitions or restrictions, or any particular prohibition or restriction, authorized by this section during an emergency but instead authorize the Mayor to determine and impose the prohibitions or restrictions deemed necessary or suitable to a particular state of emergency.

(Ord. 02-04, passed 5-1-2002; Am. Ord. 14-03, passed 6-4-2014; Am. Ord. 21-04, passed 9-1-2021)

§ 32.09 WHEN PROHIBITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS TAKE EFFECT.

   All prohibitions and restrictions imposed by proclamations adopted under this section shall take effect in the emergency area immediately upon publication of the proclamation unless the proclamation sets a later time. Publication shall include at least: (i) posting of a signed copy of the proclamation conspicuously posted on the town’s website; and (ii) submittal of notice and a signed copy of the proclamation to the Department of Public Safety WebEOC critical incident management system. Publication may also consist of reports of the substance of the prohibitions and restrictions in the mass communications media serving the emergency area or other effective methods of disseminating the necessary information quickly. As soon as practicable, however, appropriation distribution of the full text of any proclamation shall be made.

(Ord. 21-04, passed 9-1-2021)

§ 32.10 AMENDMENTS OF THE PROCLAMATION.

   (A)   The Mayor may amend or extend the proclamation under this chapter from time to time, making such modifications as he or she would have been authorized to include in the original proclamation.

   (B)   Any proclamation issued pursuant to this chapter shall expire 5 days after its last imposition unless sooner terminated.

(Ord. 02-04, passed 5-1-2002; Am. Ord. 14-03, passed 6-4-2014; Am. Ord. 21-04, passed 9-1-2021)