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ORDINANCE NO. 1473
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF -REDLANDS ESTABLISHING CITY OF REDLANDS
EMERGENCY OPERATING PLAN, AMENDING CHAPTER 45 OF THE REDLANDS
ORDINANCE CODE, AND RESCINDING ORDINANCE 926
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDLANDS 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 emergency functions
of this city with all other public agencies , corporations ,
organizations, and affected private persons.
SECTION 2. Definitions. 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 controls 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 Redlands
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 , professional, 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 4. Disaster Council Powers and Duties . It shall be
the duty of the City of Redlands Disaster Council., and it is
hereby empowered, to develop and recommend for adoption by
the City Council., emergency and mutual aid 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 Emergency 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 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
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 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:
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(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 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 other lawful
authority.
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 7. Emergency Organization . All officers and employees
of this City, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to
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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 Section
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 constitute the emergency organization of the
City of Redlands.
SECTION 8. Emergency Plan. The City of Redlands Disaster
Council shall be responsible for the development of the City of
Redlands Emergency 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 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 9. 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 Redlands.
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 identification specified by the
emergency agency of the State.
SECTION 11. Re2eal of ConflictinSI ordinances. Under the
provisions of Section 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 repealed by number.
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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 superseded as provided in
this ordinance.
SECTION 12. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become
effective thirty (30) days from and after its passage.
SECTION 13. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance
or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is
held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions
or applications, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance
are declared to be severable.
ADOPTED, SIGNED AND APPROVED this Ist day of February _- 1972.
ice May ofAc, Hi it o;V xed Van
ATTEST:
I, Peggy A. Moseley, City Clerk, City
of Redlands, hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was duly adopted by
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,Ylerk 6//'- the City council at a regular meeting
thereof on the lst day of February, 1972,
by the following vote:
APPROVED FOR FORM: AYES : Councilmen Knudsen, Miller,
Sewall, Vice Mayor DeKirjyn
NOES : None
_ r }. � ABSENT: Mayor Cummings
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City Attor ey
CitX/'jeork, City of F; lands
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