(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)