After the issuance of a proclamation of local emergency, the director shall have the power to make, issue and enforce rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by said emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations shall be confirmed as soon as practicable by the city council. In addition to those powers and duties set forth in Section 8.36.075, the director is granted, but shall not be limited to, the following powers:
A. Curfew. The director may order a general curfew applicable to the entire city or such geographical areas thereof as he/she deems necessary to protect the public health, safety, welfare and morals;
As used herein “curfew” means a prohibition against any person or persons walking, running, loitering, standing, riding or motoring upon any alley, street, highway, public property or private property except as authorized by the owner, lessee or person in charge of such private property. Persons officially delegated to duty with reference to such civil emergency and representatives of news media, physicians, nurses, ambulance operators performing medical services, firemen and law enforcement officers and other such personnel as well as those specifically authorized to duty by duly delegated authority are exempt from the foregoing curfew requirements;
B. Business Closing. The director may order the closing of any business establishments anywhere within the city; such businesses to include, but not be limited to, those selling alcoholic beverages, gasoline or firearms;
C. Alcoholic Beverages. The director may order that no person shall consume any alcoholic beverages in a public street or place which is publicly owned or in any other public or private area on which the consumption of such alcoholic beverages shall be found by the director, on just cause, to precipitate a clear and present danger to the well-being of the community during the emergency;
D. Weapons. The director may order that no persons shall carry or possess any gun, bomb, fire bomb, knife, rock or other weapon or item, the use of which would tend to inflict great bodily harm on persons or damage to property;
E. Closed Area. The director may designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicular parking area closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic during the course of such an emergency;
The foregoing specific authorizations of authority vested in the director and other such authorizations as may be deemed necessary during such emergencies are declared to be imminently necessary for the protection of life and property during such period. (Ord. 173 § 2, 1997)