CHAPTER 38: CIVIL EMERGENCIES

Section

   38.01   Purposes

   38.02   Emergency defined

   38.03   Disaster Council

   38.04   Director and Assistant Director of Emergency Services

   38.05   Emergency Organization

   38.06   Emergency plan

   38.07   Expenditures

   38.08   Violations

   38.99   Penalty

§ 38.01 PURPOSES.

   The declared purposes of this chapter are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within the city in the event of an emergency; the direction of the Emergency Organization; and the coordination of the emergency functions of the city with all other public agencies, corporations, organizations, and affected private persons.

('63 Code, § 3-2.01) (Ord. 251-C.S., passed 7-4-75)

§ 38.02 EMERGENCY DEFINED.

   As used in this chapter, EMERGENCY shall mean the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or the imminent threat of war, which conditions are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the city, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.

('63 Code, § 3-2.02) (Ord. 251-C.S., passed 7-4-75)