(A) The purpose of this section is to establish an Office of Emergency Management to ensure that the city is adequately prepared to cope with an occurrence of disaster resulting from fire, flood, hurricane, earthquake, or other natural, technological or man-made causes in order to preserve the lives of the property of the people.
(B) The Office of Emergency Management shall be the coordinating agency for all activity in connection with emergency planning; it will be the instrument through which the community officials may exercise the authority and discharge the responsibilities vested in them in R.S.A. Chapter 107-C, Emergency Management Act, as amended, and this section.
('71 Code, § 9-60) (Ord. passed 9-3-96)