(A) The organization shall consist of the following:
(1) An agency of emergency management within the county government under the direction of the County Board of Commissioners. The agency head of the Emergency Management Agency shall be known as the Coordinator, and such assistants and other employees as are deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the agency will be employed.
(2) The employees and resources of all of the town and county departments, boards, institutions, and councils shall participate in the emergency management activities. Duties assigned to town or county departments shall be the same as or similar to the normal duties of the department, where possible.
(3) Volunteer personnel and agencies offering service to, and accepted by the town and county.
(B) The County Board of Commissioners shall employ a Coordinator of the County Emergency Management Agency who shall be a person well versed and trained in planning operations involving the activities of many different agencies which will operate to protect the public health, safety, and welfare in the event of danger from enemy action or disaster as defined in this chapter.
(C) The Coordinator shall designate Deputy Coordinators to assume the emergency duties of the Coordinator in the event of his absence or inability to act.
(Ord. 14.6, passed 11-7-88; Am. Ord. passed 7-27-04)