(A) During a proclaimed disaster emergency, the City Manager is the Director of Emergency Preparedness and other unorganized forces available for emergency duty.
(B) In addition to any other powers conferred upon the City Manager by law, the City Manager may, under this Chapter, do the following:
(1) Suspend the provisions of any regulatory ordinance prescribing procedures for the conduct of City business, or the orders or regulations of any City department, if compliance with the provisions of the statute, order, or regulation would prevent, substantially impede, or delay action necessary to cope with the disaster emergency;
(2) Use all the resources of City government as reasonably necessary to cope with the disaster emergency;
(3) Transfer personnel or alter the functions of City departments for the purpose of performing or facilitating the performance of Disaster Emergency Management;
(4) Subject to any applicable requirements for compensation under § 2.96.110 of this Chapter, may commandeer or utilize any private property, except for the news media, other than as specifically provided for in this Chapter as necessary to cope with the disaster emergency;
(5) Direct and compel the relocations of all or part of the population from any stricken or threatened area in the city, if the City Manager considers relocation necessary for the preservation of life or for other disaster mitigation purpose;
(6) Prescribe routes, modes of transportation, and destination in connection with necessary relocation;
(7) Control ingress to and egress from a disaster area, the movement of persons within the area, and the occupancy of premises in it;
(8) Suspend or limit the sale, dispensing, or transportation of alcoholic beverages, firearms, ammunition, explosives, and combustibles;
(9) Make provisions for the availability and use of temporary emergency housing;
(10) Impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the city thereby requiring all persons in such designated and restricted curfew areas to remove themselves from public property, streets, alleys, sidewalks, thoroughfares, vehicle parking areas, or other public places except that physicians, nurses, and paramedical personnel performing essential medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen, members of the news media upon showing of authorized press cards, civil defense volunteers, and city, state and federal authorized law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempted from such curfew; or
(11) Allocate, ration, or redistribute food, water, fuel, clothing, and other items as deemed necessary to cope with the disaster emergency.
(Am. Ord. 2004-04, passed 3-9-04)