(a) When a civil emergency which substantially impairs the functioning of the City government and its ability to protect the lives and property of the people; any of the following named officers of the City, acting in the order herein designated, when the previously named officer or officers are absent from the City or are unavailable or incapable of doing so, are authorized and directed to proclaim the existence of a state of civil emergency in the City or within any prescribed area or areas thereof:
(1) The City Manager;
(2) The Acting City Manager;
(3) The President of Council;
(4) The President Pro Tem of Council;
(5) The Chief of Police; or
(6) The Fire Chief.
(b) Whoever violates any proclamation issued in accordance with this section is guilty of a misdemeanor in the first degree.
(c) For purposes of this Chapter, "Civil Emergency" means a tumult, riot, mob or body of people acting together with the intent to commit or facilitate the commission of a felony or a misdemeanor, or to do or offer violence to person or property; or by force and violence break or resist the law; or in the event of flood, fire, snowstorm, pandemic, public health emergency, or any other public crisis or disaster, either natural or man- made, affecting life and property, or any emergency declared by the President of the United States or the Governor of Ohio.
(Ord. 15-2020. Passed 3-16-20.)