(A) A local emergency may be declared only by the Mayor, or his or her legal successor. It shall not be continued for a period in excess of three days except by, or with, the consent of the Council. Any order, or proclamation, declaring, continuing, or terminating a local emergency shall be given prompt, and general, publicity, and shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk-Treasurer.
(B) A declaration of a local emergency shall invoke necessary portions of the response, and recovery, aspects of applicable local, or interjurisdictional, disaster plans, and may authorize aid and assistance thereunder.
(C) No jurisdictional agency, or official, may declare a local emergency unless expressly authorized by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an interjurisdictional disaster agency shall provide aid, and services, in accordance with the agreement under which it functions.
Penalty, see § 34.99