(A) A state of emergency shall be deemed to exist whenever, during times of great public crisis, disaster, rioting, civil disturbance, catastrophe or for any other reason, municipal public safety authorities are unable to maintain public order or afford adequate protection for lives, safety, health, welfare or property.
(B) In the event of a state of emergency threatening or endangering the lives, safety, health and welfare of the people within the town or threatening damage to or destruction of property, the Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to issue a public proclamation declaring to all persons the existence of such a state of emergency, and, in order more effectively to protect the lives, safety and property of people within the town, to define and impose a curfew applicable to all persons within the jurisdiction of the town.
(C) The Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to limit the application of such a curfew to any area specifically designated and described within the jurisdiction of the town and to specific hours of the day or night; and to exempt from the curfew policeman, firefighters, doctors, nurses and such other classes of person as may be essential to the preservation of public order and immediately necessary to serve the safety, health and welfare needs of the people of the town.
(D) The Town Council shall be called into session within 24 hours after the state of emergency has been proclaimed by the Mayor.
(E) The Mayor shall proclaim the end of such state of emergency and curfew as soon as circumstances warrant or when directed to do so by Town Council.
(F) During the existence of a proclaimed state of emergency when a curfew has been defined and imposed, it shall be unlawful for anyone subject to curfew:
(1) To be or travel upon any public street, alley or roadway or upon public property unless the travel is necessary to obtain medical assistance;
(2) To possess off one’s own premises, buy, sell. give away or otherwise transfer or dispose of any explosive, firearms, ammunition or dangerous weapons of any kind;
(3) To sell beer, wines or intoxicating beverages of any kind or to possess or consume the same off one’s own premises; or
(4) To sell gasoline or any other similar petroleum products or any other combustible or inflammable substances except as expressly authorized by the provisions of the curfew imposed.
(1982 Code, Ch. 10, Art. IV, § 4-10)