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10 ORDINANCE NO. 10 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAND TERRACE RELATING TO EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS The City Council of the City of Grand Terrace does ordain as follows: Section 1 . Purposes. The declared purposes of this ordinance are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within this city in the event of an emergency; the direction of the emergency organization; and the coordination of the other public agencies, corporations, organization, and affected private persons. Section 2. Definition. As used in this ordinance, "emergency" shall mean the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within this city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or imminent threat of war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel , equipment, and facilities of this city, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat. Section 3. Disaster Council Membership. The City of Grand Terrace Disaster Council is hereby created and shall consist of the following: A. The mayor, who shall be chairman. B. The director of emergency services, who shall be vice chairman. C. The assistant director of emergency services. D. Such chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in a current emergency plan of this city, adopted pursuant to this ordinance. E. Such representatives of civic, business, labor, veterans, profes- sional , or other organizations having an official emergency re- -1- sponsibility, as may be appointed by the director with the advice and consent of the city council . Section 4. Disaster Council Powers and Duties. It shall be the duty of the City of Grand Terrace Disaster Council , and it is hereby empowered, to develop and recommend for adoption by the city council , emergency and mutual aid plans and agreements and such ordinances and resolutions and rules and regulations as are necessary to implement such plans and agreements. The Disaster Council shall meet upon call of the chairman or, in his absence from the city or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice chairman. Section 5. Director and Assistant Director of Emergency Services. A. There is hereby created the office of director of emergency services. The City Manager shall be the director of emergency services. B. There is hereby created the office of assistant director of emer- gency services, who shall be appointed by the director. Section 6. Powers and Duties of the Director and Assistant Director of Emergency Services. A. The director is hereby empowered to: (1 ) Request the city council to proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a "local emergency" if the city council is in ses- sion, or to issue such proclamation if the city council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the director, the city council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within 7 days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect. (2) Request the Governor to proclaim a "state of emergency" when, in the opinion of the director, the locally available resources are inadequate to cope with the emergency. (3) Control and direct the effort of the emergency organization of this city for the accomplishment of the purposes of this ordi- -2- nance. (4) Direct cooperation between and coordination of services and staff of the emergency organization of this city; and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them. (5) Represent this city in all dealings with public or private agencies on matters pertaining to emergencies as defined herein. (6) In the event of the proclamation of a "local emergency" as herein provided, the proclamation of a "state of emergency" by the Governor or the Director of the State Office of Emergency Ser- vices, or the existence of a "state of war emergency," the director is hereby empowered: AMMA (a) To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reason- ably related to the protection of life and property as affected by such emergency; provided, however, such rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest practic- able time by the city council ; (b) To obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other pro- perties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and to bind the city for the fair value thereof and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use; (c) To require emergency services of any city officer or em- ployee and, in the event of the proclamation of a "state of emergency" in the county in which this city is located or the existence of a "state of war emergency," to command the aid of as many citizens of this community as he deems necessary in the execution of his duties; such persons -3- shall be entitled to all privileges, benefits, and immunities as are provided by state law for registered disaster service workers; (d) To requisition necessary personnel or material of any city department or agency; and (e) To execute all of his ordinary power as City Manager, all of the special powers conferred upon him by this ordinance or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant hereto adopted by the city council , all powers conferred upon him by any statute, by any agreement approved by the city council , and by any other lawful authority. B. The director of emergency services shall designate the order of suc- cession to that office, to take effect in the event the director is unavailable to attend meetings and otherwise perform his duties during an emergency. Such order of succession shall be approved by the city council . C. The assistant director shall , under the supervision of the director and with the assistance of emergency service chiefs, develop emer- gency plans and manage the emergency programs of this city; and shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director. Section 7. Emergency Organization. All officers and employees of this city, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, and all groups, organizations, and persons who may by agreement or operation of law, including persons impressed into service under the provisions of SEC. 6.A(6)(c) of this ordinance, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in this city during such emergency, shall con- stitute the emergency organization of the City of Grand Terrace. Section 8. Emergency Plan. The City of Grand Terrace Disaster Council shall be responsible for the development of the City of Grand Terrace Emergency -4- 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 con- stituting 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 . Section 9. Expenditures. Any expenditures made in connection with emergency activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed con- clusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the City of Grand Terrace. Section 10. Punishment of Violations. It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or by imprisonment for not to exceed six months, or both, for any person, during an emergency to: A. Willfully obstruct, hinder, or delay any member of the emergency organization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this ordinance, or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by virtue of this ordinance. B. Do any act forbidden by any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this ordinance, if such act is of such a nature as to give or be likely to give assistance to the enemy or to imperil the lives or property of inhabitants of this city, or to prevent, hinder, or delay the defense or protection thereof. C. Wear, carry, or display, without authority, any means of identifica- tion specified by the emergency agency of the State. Section 11 . Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances. Under the provisions of Sec. 8668 (a) of the California Emergency Services Act, existing civil defense and disaster ordinances will remain in full force and effect until revised, amended, or revoked; therefore the existing ordinances should be expressly -5- repealed by number. In subsequent revisions of a city emergency services ordinance, the following proviso should be included in the repealing section in order to preserve existing rights and privileges: "Provided, that it is the intent of the city council in enacting this ordinance that it shall be considered a revision and continuation of the ordinance repealed by this ordinance, and the status of volunteers shall not be affected by such repeal ; nor shall plans and agreements, rules and regulations, or resolutions adopted pursuant to such repealed ordinance be affected by such repeal until amended, modified, or super- seded as provided in this ordinance. " Section 12. Urgency. This Ordinance is hereby declared an urgency measure necessary for the immediate protection and preservation of the public peace, safety, health and welfare of persons and property within the City of Grand Terrace. The facts establishing the necessity for such urgency measure are these: That the City is authorized by Government Code Section 50022.9 to adopt by reference County codes and ordinances; that the City of Grand Terrace has no laws in effect at the present time, and to preserve the public peace, health and safety it is necessary that this Ordinance take effect im- mediately. Section 13. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective immediately. Section 14. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such in- validity shall not affect other provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. DATED this 18th day of January, 1979. -6- Mayor Of the City of Grand Terrace and of the City Council thereof. ATTEST: A City Clerk f the City of Grand Terrace and of the City Council thereof. (SEAL) Approved as to form: City Attorney -7- STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO ) ss. CITY OF GRAND TERRACE ) I, SETH ARMSTEAD, City Clerk of the City of Grand Terrace, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted by the City Council of said City at the organizational meeting of the City Council held on the 18th day of January, 1979, and that it was so adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Tillinghast, Erway, Allen, Grant; Mayor Petta NOES: None ABSENT: None City Clerk bf the City oT Grand Terrace and of the City Council thereof. (SEAL) STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO ) ss. CITY OF GRAND TERRACE ) I, SETH ARMSTEAD, City Clerk of the City of Grand Terrace, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, that the above and foregoing is a full , true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 10 of said City Council and that the same has not been amended or repealed. DATED: January 18, 1979 City Clerk of the City of Grand Terrace and of the City Council thereof. (SEAL) c :7NOTARY AL SEAL i S. LOVETT Earline S. T�vett ., aIC - CALIFORNIAI�IptcLtyDINO COUNTY�9�mo0. es SEP 29, 1981