A. The functions and duties of the Visalia Emergency Management Organization shall be distributed among such divisions, services and special staff as the city council shall prescribe by resolution. All above mentioned members of the emergency organization, without exception, will be considered disaster service workers giving them protection under California Senate Bill 39-Personal liability immunity: “disaster service workers” (State of California Civil Code Section 1714.5), or as that section subsequently may be amended.
B. The city council shall concurrently with the adoption of the ordinance codified in this chapter, adopt a resolution setting forth the form of organization, establishment and designation of divisions and services, the assignment of functions, duties and powers, the designation of officers and employees In the form of an Emergency Operations Plan. Insofar as possible, the form of organization, titles and terminology shall conform to the recommendations of the federal government and the Director of the California Office of Emergency Services. (Prior code § 1506)
C. The Emergency Management Coordinator, the Disaster Preparedness Officer and other city department heads shall be responsible for the development of and updates to the city emergency operations plan, which plan shall provide for the effective mobilization of all of the resources of this city, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency, state of emergency, or state of war emergency; and shall provide for the organization, powers and duties, services and staff of the emergency organization. Such plan shall take effect upon adoption by resolution of the City Council and be reviewed every three years. The EOP shall be binding upon all agencies of city government, its employees and registered volunteer disaster service workers, and have the effect of law whenever an emergency, as provided in this chapter, has been proclaimed.
(Ord. 2019-08 §1, 2019)