119.01 Emergency contracts.
119.02 Mayor may appoint acting commissioners.
119.03 Mayor may declare flood alert.
CROSS REFERENCES
General qualifications - see CHTR. § 28
Veto power - see CHTR. § 43A
Right in Council - see CHTR. § 43C
Budget estimate - see CHTR. § 45
Executive and administrative powers - see CHTR. § 61
Acting Mayor - see CHTR. § 61A
Salary - see CHTR. § 67
Removals by Mayor - see CHTR. § 69
Investigations by Mayor - see CHTR. § 71
To be Records Commission Chairman - see ADM 173.01
The Mayor is hereby authorized and directed to enter into contracts with the surrounding townships, villages or cities, which contract shall provide for the mutual exchange of fire fighting personnel and equipment to be available on call in the event of enemy action, sabotage or such other local emergency as the Mayor shall deem advisable. Any contract or contracts entered into pursuant to this section shall contain such terms and conditions as to the Mayor shall seem advisable. The Mayor is hereby authorized to provide, by rule or order, for the execution of such contracts, which shall be approved by Council.
(1952 Code § 3-3-13)
In the event of the absence or disability of any director, commissioner or agency head, or in the event of a vacancy in any such position, the Mayor may appoint an individual to serve in such position a maximum of one year unless extended by Council. The Mayor may delegate to the department directors the authority to appoint acting commissioners during the temporary absence or disability of the permanent commissioners. The individuals appointed on an acting basis shall have all the authority, powers and duties of such director, commissioner or agency head and shall be paid the salary equal to that of the permanent appointee during the time the individual serves in an acting capacity.
(Ord. 855-93. Passed 12-31-93.)
(a) Whenever any portion, part, segment or neighborhood of the City is in danger of being flooded, or is threatened with being flooded or is in fact flooded because of adverse weather conditions or natural or unnatural disasters, the Mayor may declare a flood alert by notifying the various departments and divisions of the City of the prevailing conditions, and may order the installation of floodgates, pipes, pumps, hoses, barricades and other appurtenances and equipment, and may make available for immediate use such facilities, equipment and personnel of the City as he deems necessary and adequate to protect life and public and private property for such a period of time as he deems it necessary to do so.
(b) In the event of the absence or disability of the Mayor, the aforesaid flood alert may be declared by the Director of Public Safety; in the absence or disability of the Director of Public Safety, such alert may be declared by that person so designated by the Director of Public Safety as his deputy for such purpose. The Director of Public Safety, or his deputy so designated, shall have the same powers, duties and authorities as granted to the Mayor as aforesaid.
(c) So long as the flood alert remains in force and effect, and until declared at an end by the Mayor, the Director of Public Safety or the deputy of the Director of Public Safety, no person shall move, remove, dislodge or in any way tamper with or interfere with any floodgate, pipe, pump, hose, barricade or other appurtenance or equipment put in place in response to the aforesaid flood alert for the purpose of protecting life and property from a flood or a threatened flood.
(d) Whoever violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(1952 Code § 3-3-15; Ord. 389-74)