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GENERAL PROVISIONS
For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definition shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
CIVIL EMERGENCY. A riot, mob gathering or other unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by immediate power or apparent power to execute same by three or more persons acting together without authority of law, occurring within the corporate limits of the city, or elsewhere in the Northern Kentucky or Greater Cincinnati area, whereby an immediate threat to the lives, person or property of residents of this city exists.
(1992 Code, § 92.01)
Whenever, in the judgment of the Mayor of the city, a civil emergency as defined in § 91.01 is deemed to exist, the mayor shall forthwith proclaim in writing the existence of a civil emergency. Such proclamation, which shall be known as a Proclamation of Emergency, shall be effective upon its issuance and dissemination to the public by appropriate news media. A copy of such proclamation shall also be immediately delivered to the Chief of Police of this city where it shall be available for inspection by any interested person, firm or corporation.
(1992 Code, § 92.02)
In issuing the proclamation of emergency pursuant to § 91.02, the Mayor shall have the power to impose any or all of the following regulations or invoke any or all of the following powers necessary to preserve the peace and order of the city:
(A) Order the closing of all retail liquor stores dispensing whiskey, wine or malt beverages by the package;
(B) Order the closing of all retail liquor stores dispensing whiskey, wine or malt beverages by the drink;
(C) Order the closing of all taverns and bars;
(D) Order the closing of all restaurants;
(E) Order the closing of all private clubs or portions thereof wherein the consumption of intoxicating liquor and/or beer is permitted
(F) Order the discontinuance of the sale of whiskey, wine or malt beverages, or all thereof;
(G) Order the discontinuance of selling, distributing or giving away gasoline or other liquid flammable or combustible products in any container other than a gasoline tank properly affixed to a motor vehicle;
(H) Order the closing of gasoline stations and other establishments, the chief activity of which is the sale, distribution or dispensing of liquid flammable or combustible products;
(I) Order a general curfew applicable to the city as a whole or any portion thereof, and applicable during any specified or all hours of the day or night, thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves from the public streets, alleys or other public places. However, physicians, nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen, police personnel, city officials and other authorized personnel may be exempted from such curfew;
(J) Order the closing of all or any part of any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking area to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic; and
(K) Issue such other orders as are imminently and reasonably necessary for the protection of life and property.
(1992 Code, § 92.03)
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