There is created an Emergency Services Council which shall consist of five members who shall be appointed by the Mayor, with the advice and consent of Council. Council shall have power at any time to remove any member so appointed. At the expiration of the original terms, all members shall be appointed for terms of three years. A vacancy in membership shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment is made and for the balance of the unexpired term. The members of the Emergency Services Council shall serve without compensation, and not more than three members of such Council shall be members of the same political party.
The Emergency Services Council shall advise the Director of Emergency Services on all matters pertaining to emergency services.
Neither the Emergency Services Council nor the Emergency Services Director shall have the power to declare or proclaim an emergency justifying the exercise by the organization hereby created of the emergency powers conferred upon it by this article or by the statutes of this State; such emergency shall be declared or proclaimed only in the manner provided by West Virginia Code 15-5-6, or by the Mayor in the manner otherwise authorized by law.
(Ord. 2699. Passed 12-1-59.)