(A) The Supervisor may exercise the emergency power and authority as specified herein. Whenever a situation requires, or is likely to require, that the Supervisor invoke the power and authority, he or she shall, as soon as reasonably expedient, convene the Board to perform its legislative and administrative duties as the situation demands, and shall report to that body relative to emergency activities. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as abridging or curtailing the powers of the Board unless specifically provided herein.
(B) Under the following circumstances, the Supervisor may assemble and utilize the Emergency Services Forces, and he or she may prescribe the manner and conditions of their use:
(1) Whenever, on the basis of information received from authoritative sources, he or she feels that a large-scale disaster or emergency situation in the township or state is imminent; and
(2) During any period of disaster in the township or state and thereafter as long as he or she shall deem it necessary.
(C) Whenever the Supervisor finds that any condition in the township has attained, or threatens to attain, the proportions of a major disaster, he or she may assemble and utilize Emergency Services Forces and he or she may prescribe the manner and conditions of their use. The Supervisor, with the approval of the Board, is hereby empowered to enter into mutual aid agreements with other public and private agencies for reciprocal aid and assistance during disasters which are beyond local capabilities and resources. He or she may, when he or she deems it in the public interest, send Emergency Services Forces of the township to the aid of other communities stricken by disaster as provided by mutual aid agreements; provided, that after the Board convenes, the future continuance of any such disaster relief and the period thereof shall be subject to the action of the Board.
(D) The Supervisor, with the approval of the Board, may make regulations permitting the Coordinator to assemble and utilize the Emergency Services Forces and provide disaster relief aid as prescribed in divisions (B) and (C) above.
(E) When obtaining formal approvals would result in delay of relief activity, the Supervisor may, until the Board convenes, waive procedures and formalities otherwise required pertaining to the performance of public works, entering into contracts, the incurring of obligations, the employment of temporary workers, the rental of equipment, the purchase and distribution of supplies, materials, and facilities and expenditure of existing funds, and the Board is also empowered to waive any such procedures and formalities.
(F) The Supervisor, with the approval of the Board, shall establish procedures for the succession of government during emergencies where officials are unavailable for exercising the powers and discharging the duties of their respective offices, under the provisions of Michigan Const. Art. IV, § 39.
(Ord. 77-9, passed 11-28-1977)