For the purpose of this subchapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
AUTHORIZED PERSONS. All state, county and municipal police and fire personnel; hospital and ambulance crews; National Guard, and emergency management personnel ordered into a disaster area by proper authority; federal civil and military personnel on official business; persons who enter a disaster area to maintain or restore facilities for the provision of water, electricity, communications or transportation to the public; and such other officials as have valid reason to enter a disaster area.
CIVIL EMERGENCY. A riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of actual force or violence or any threat to use force if accompanied by immediate power to execute by three or more persons acting together. All powers, duties and regulations relating to a disaster shall also apply to a civil emergency.
CURFEW. A prohibition against any persons walking, running, loitering, standing, or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property, or vacant premises within the corporate limits of the city, except persons officially designated to duty with reference to the civil emergency.
DISASTER. Any event within the city limits threatening or resulting in the death or injury of persons or the destruction of property to such an extent that extraordinary measures must be taken to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
DISASTER AREA. The scene or location of any disaster or civil emergency.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The functions charged to the Emergency Management Department and other city departments to create a framework to provide coordinated community actions to reduce the city's vulnerability to hazards and increase the city's resiliency and ability to respond to and recover from disasters. This includes functions and actions to mitigate, prepare for, respond to and otherwise aid the citizens of the city in the recovery from injury and damages caused by the effects of disasters. These might include, without limitation:
(1) Fire, flood, tornado, drought, earthquake, and other natural events;
(2) Transportation accidents, chemical releases, industrial accidents, and other technological events;
(3) Infectious disease outbreaks and other public health events;
(4) Civil disorder, domestic and international terrorism, acts of war, and other manmade events; and
(5) Any other event which develops to such an extent as to cause an extreme emergency situation which jeopardizes the health, safety or welfare of the citizens of the city.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR ("DIRECTOR"). The individual appointed by the City Manager to carry out the functions set out in this chapter.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT FORCES. The employees, equipment and facilities of all city institutions and commissions; and, in addition, it shall include all volunteer personnel, equipment and facilities contributed by or obtained from volunteer persons or agencies.
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VOLUNTEER. Any person duly registered, trained, identified, and appointed by the Director and assigned to participate in an emergency management and/or disaster activity.
ENEMY ATTACK. A direct or indirect assault against the city, its government, its environs, or of the nation, by the forces of a hostile nation, the agents thereof, and/or non-state sponsored militant or extremist groups, including assault by bombing, radiological, chemical or biological warfare, sabotage or terrorism.
FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY (FEMA). The Federal Emergency Management Agency, as created by the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, P.L. 100-707.
OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT (OEM). The State of Oklahoma's Department of Emergency Management, as created in 63 O.S. § 683.4.
REGULATIONS. Includes plans, programs, and other emergency procedures deemed essential to emergency management.
RESILIENCE. The ability to prepare and plan for, absorb, recover from, and more successfully adapt to adverse events.
VOLUNTEER. The contribution of a service, equipment or facilities to the emergency management system and assigned for use in a disaster/exercise activity, given without expectation of compensation.
(2002 Code, § 38.01) (Ord. 509, passed 4-12-2004; Ord. 947, passed 6-12-2023)