The City Manager:
(a) Shall, through the Director of Civil Defense, maintain general supervision over planning and administration for the civil defense organization and the execution of the civil defense and disaster plan. He or she shall coordinate the civil defense activities and make emergency assignments of civil defense duties and civil defense forces in order to meet situations not covered in the normal duties of such forces.
(b) May take all necessary action to conduct tests of the civil defense and natural disaster plan;
(c) Shall, through the Director of Civil Defense, when a state of emergency has been declared, assemble and utilize civil defense forces and prescribe the manner and conditions of their use; and
(d) Shall designate a line of succession among his or her department heads to carry out the powers and duties of this section in the event of his or her absence or inability to serve.
(Ord. 168. Passed 3-25-57.)