The duties and responsibilities of the Emergency Management Director shall include the following:
(A) Conduct an on-going survey of actual or potential hazards which threaten life and property within the city and an on-going program of identifying and requiring or recommending the implementation of measures which tend to prevent the occurrence or reduce the impact of the hazards if a disaster occurs;
(B) Supervise the development and approval of an Emergency Management Plan for the City of Elephant Butte, and recommend for adoption by the city all mutual aid arrangements deemed necessary for the implementation of the plan;
(C) Authority to declare a local state of disaster. The declaration may not be continued or renewed for a period in excess of 7 days except by or with the consent of the governing body. Any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, or terminating a local state of disaster shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed promptly with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer;
(D) Issue proclamations, regulations or directives which are necessary for carrying out the purposes of this chapter. The proclamations, regulations, or directives shall be disseminated promptly by means calculated to bring its contents to the attention of the general public and, unless circumstances attendant on the disaster prevent or impede, promptly filed with the Municipal Clerk-Treasurer;
(E) Direct and control the operation of the City of Elephant Butte Emergency Management Organization, as well as the training of Emergency Management Personnel;
(F) Determine all questions of authority responsibility that may arise within the Emergency Management Organization of the city;
(G) Maintain a liaison with other municipal, county, district, state, regional or federal, emergency management organizations;
(H) Marshal all necessary personnel, equipment or supplies from any department of the city to aid in carrying out the provisions of the Emergency Management Plan;
(I) Supervise the drafting and execution of mutual aid agreements, in cooperation with the representatives of the state and of other local political subdivisions of the state, and the drafting and execution, if deemed desirable, of an agreement with the county in which the city is located and with other municipalities within the county, for the county-wide coordination of emergency management efforts;
(J) Supervise and have final authority for procuring all necessary supplies and equipment, including accepting private contributions which may be offered for the purposes of improving emergency management within the city;
(K) Authorize agreements for use of private property for public shelter and other purposes;
(L) Survey the availability of existing personnel, equipment, supplies and services which could be used during a disaster, as provided on herein; and
(M) Other requirements as specified in the New Mexico Civil Emergency Act of NMSA §§ 12-10-1 to 12-10-10.
(Ord. 58, passed 1-28-2003)