(a) It is the intent and purpose of this chapter to establish an office that will insure the complete and efficient utilization of all the City's facilities to cope with disaster as defined herein.
(b) The City Office of Disaster Services shall be the coordinating agency for all activity in connection with civil preparedness. It shall be the instrument through which the City Manager may exercise the authority and discharge the responsibilities vested in him pursuant to laws of the State as well as provisions of the City Charter.
(c) This chapter shall not relieve any City department of the moral responsibility or authority given to it in the City Charter or by local ordinance, nor shall it adversely affect the work of any volunteer agency organized for relief in disaster emergencies.
(1987 Code 91.01)