Prior to an emergency within the City, the Emergency Management Director shall have the following powers:
A. To make, amend and rescind the necessary orders, rules and regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter within the limits of the authority conferred upon him herein, with due consideration to be given to the plans and powers of the Federal government, the State government, and other public and private agencies and organizations empowered to act in either enemy caused emergencies or natural emergencies, or both.
B. To prepare comprehensive plans for the emergency management of the city in both enemy caused and natural emergencies, such plans and programs to be integrated and coordinated with the plans and programs of the federal government, of the state government, and of other public and private agencies and organizations empowered to act in either enemy caused or natural emergencies, or both.
C. To establish, within the limits of funds available, a public warning system composed of sirens, horns, or other acceptable warning devices.
D. To establish and carry out recruitment and training programs as may be necessary to develop an adequate, qualified emergency management volunteer corps.
E. To conduct drills, exercises and similar programs as may be necessary to develop a well trained, alert, fully prepared emergency management department.
F. To make such studies and surveys of the industries, resources and facilities of the city as it deems necessary to ascertain its capabilities for emergency management, and plan for the most efficient emergency use therefor.
G. On behalf of the city, to enter into mutual aid arrangements with surrounding communities, both in the states of Oklahoma and of Kansas, subject to the approval of the city commission.
H. To delegate any administrative authority vested in it under this chapter, and to provide for the subdelegation of any such authority.
I. To take any other action proper and lawful under its authority to prepare for either an enemy caused or a natural emergency. (1980 Code § 10-6; amd. 2003 Code)