Ordinance No. 325 - Emergency Organization and FunctionsORDINANCE NO. 325
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD
RELATING TO EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION AND
FUNCTIONS AND AMENDING THE ROSEMEAD
MUNICIPAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Article III, Chapter Vii of the Rosemead
Municipaa CT obis amended to read as follows:
"CHAPTER VII-EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION AND FUNCTIONS"
Section 3700. Purposes. The declared purposes of this
ordinance are to provihe 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 emergency functions of
this city with all other public agencies, corporations, organiza-
tions, and affected private persons.
Section 3701. Definition. As used in this ordinance,
"emergency" shall mean tiTctuaT 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 earth-
quake, 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
force of other political subdivisions to combat.
Section 3702. Disaster Council Membershi The Rosemead
Disaster Council is hereby create an s a 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, professionals, or other organizations having
an official emergency responsibility, as may be
appointed by the director with the advice and consent
of the City Council.
Section. 3703. Disaster Council Powers and Duties. It
shall be the duty of the Rosemead Disaster Council, an 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 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 3704. 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 emergency services, who shall be appointed by director.
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Section 3705. 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 session, 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 pro-
clamation 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 pur-
poses of this ordinance.
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 Services, or the existence of a "state of war
emergency", the director is hereby empowered:
a) To make and issue rules and regulations on matters
reasonably 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 practicable time
by the city council.
b) To obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other
properties 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 employee 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 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 p
all of the special powers conferred upon by
or by resolution or emergency plan pursuant
the city council, all powers conferred upon
any agreement approved by the city council,
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B. The director of emergency services shall designate
the order of succession to that office, to take effect in the
event the director is unavailable to attend meetings and other-
wise 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 emergency 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 370,6. 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 pro-
visions of Section 3705 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 constitute the emergency
organization of the City of Rosemead.
Section 3707. Emer Inc Plan. The Rosemead Disaster
Council shall be response e •or t he development of the City of
Rosemead Emergency Plan, which plan shall provide for the effec-
tive 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.
Section 3708. Expenditures. Any expenditures made in
connection with emergency activities, including mutual aid
activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct
protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the
City of Rosemead.
Section 3709. 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 regula-
tion 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 por-
tection thereof.
C. Wear, carry, or display, without authority, any
means of identification specified by the emergency agency of
the State.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 9th day of
November, 1971.
ATTEST:
CITY CLERK
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