(A) As authorized by the Illinois Municipal Code, ILCS Ch. 65, Act 5, § 11-1-6 and the Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, ILCS Ch. 20, Act 3305, § 11, as they may hereinafter be amended, as promptly as practicable after the execution of any order or proclamation by the Mayor declaring, continuing, or terminating a state of emergency or a local disaster, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, such declaration shall be filed with the City Clerk and published by posting notices thereof at the following locations and transmitting through the following mediums:
(1) On the outside of the front door of the city's administrative and billing offices;
(2) On the outside of the front door of the city police and fire stations;
(3) On the outside of the front door of the United States Post Office in the city;
(4) On the city's website as is practicable;
(5) Through social media and other electronic mediums for broadcast and publication if possible; and
(6) At such other place or places within the city as the Mayor may in his/her discretion direct.
(B) In addition, the Mayor may direct that copies of such declaration of a state of emergency or local disaster be delivered as soon as practicable to any newspapers published or circulated within the city and to such radio, television and other broadcasting stations either within or without the city as may be reasonably necessary or appropriate to effect notice of such declaration of a state of emergency or local disaster to persons within the city as promptly as practicable. Nothing contained in this section shall be a condition to any lawful arrest, prosecution or conviction of any person for a violation of any provisions of this chapter, provided that the Mayor shall not have arbitrarily or capriciously failed or refused to publish a declaration of a state of emergency or a local disaster in accordance with the provisions hereof.
(Ord. 2020-MC04, passed 3-20-2020)