(a) Declaration Authority. The President of Council is hereby authorized to declare a state of emergency in the City.
(b) Publication; Notice; Curfew. Upon declaration by the President pursuant to subsection (a) hereof immediate publication and notice shall be given in the City by means of loudspeakers and any other type of available communication, including radio and after such publication no person shall be abroad in the City during the times fixed by the President in the proclamation of emergency. However, in issuing the proclamation, the individual issuing such proclamation shall, as soon as possible and within thirty-six hours, call a special Council meeting where the emergency proclamation shall be ratified, amended or revoked.
The President, in so designating the state of emergency, shall fix the times of each day during which the emergency exists and when he/she determines that the emergency no longer exists, he/she shalt declare it ended.
(c) Succession of Power. In the absence from the City or the disability of the President, the Vice-President of Council shall have the same powers and authority as granted to the President herein and upon the absence from the City or the disability of both the President and the Vice-President, the City Manager shall have the same powers and authority as the President and Vice-President have under this section.
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section pertaining to curfew is guilty of a minor misdemeanor. (Ord. 1005AC. Passed 1-21-74.)