(A) A STATE OF EMERGENCY shall be deemed to exist whenever, during times of great public crises, disaster, rioting, catastrophe or similar public emergency, for any reason, municipal public safety authorities are unable to maintain public order or afford adequate protection for lives, safety or property.
(B) In the event of an existing or threatened state of emergency endangering the lives, safety, health and welfare of the people within the town or threatening damage to or destruction of property, the Mayor of the town 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.
(1) The Mayor is hereby authorized and empowered to limit the application of such a curfew to any area specifically designated and described within the corporation limits of the town and to specific hours of the day or night; and to exempt from the curfew police officers, firefighters, doctors, nurses and such other classes of persons as may be essential to the preservation of public order and immediately necessary to serve the safety, health and welfare needs of the people within the town.
(2) The Mayor shall proclaim the end of such an emergency state and curfew as soon as circumstances warrant or when directed to do so by the Board of Commissioners.
(C) During the existence of a proclaimed state of emergency when a curfew has been imposed, it shall be unlawful for anyone subject to the curfew to do the following:
(1) Be or travel upon any public street, alley or roadway or upon public property, unless in search of medical assistance, food or other commodity or service necessary to sustain the well-being of himself or herself or his or her family or some member thereof;
(2) Sell beer, wines or intoxicating beverages of any kind or to possess or consume the same off one’s own premises; and/or
(3) Sell gasoline or any other similar petroleum products, or any other flammable substances, except as expressly authorized by the provisions of the curfew imposed.
(Prior Code, § 93.02) (Ord. passed 10-2-1967) Penalty, see § 10.99