60B - FIRST READING OF CH 2 AMDENDMENT OF MUNI CODE

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shall provide for the organization, duties and functions, and procedures and capabilities of the city's response to the emergency. Each city department will supplement the EOP with those standard operating procedures necessary to fulfill their role in an emergency under the EOP. The EOP shall comply with the principles of the Orange County Operational Area Agreement, the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and the federal National Incident Management System (NIMS). The emergency operations advisory board shall be responsible to review and recommend adoption of the EOP to city council, and to implement the requirements of the plan once adopted. City council shall review and adopt the plan bV resolution as a Policy of the city. Once adopted, the plan shall be mandatory upon city departments and agencies, employees and registered volunteer emergency workers and shall have the effect of law whenever an emeraencv has been proclaimed as provided in this division. Sec. 2-646. - Emergency proclamations and measures. A. Proclamations of local emergency. A local emergency, as defined by section 2-643 and bV California Emergency Services Act Section 8558(c), may be proclaimed upon conditions of disaster or extreme peril, existing or imminently likely, so as to threaten lives and property, and by reason of its magnitude is or is likely to be beyond the control of the available services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the city. The director of emergency services may request the city council to proclaim the existence of a local emergency, if the city council is in session, or may issue such proclamation if the city council is not in session. Such proclamation must be made within ten (10) days of the occurrence of the disaster or emergency. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the director, the city council must, within seven (7) days from the date of the original proclamation by the director, approve a resolution ratifying the proclamation, or allow the proclamation to expire. City council shall review the need for continuing the local emergency at least once every thirty (30) days and shall terminate the emergency or allow it to expire at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. During a local emergency, the city council or the director of emergency services may promulgate ordinances, orders or regulations necessary to provide for the protection of life and property, including orders or regulations imposing a curfew within designated boundaries where necessary to preserve the public order and safety. Such orders and regulations and amendments and rescissions thereof shall be in writing and shall be given widespread publicity and notice. The city council shall proclaim the termination of the local emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. Upon termination of the local emergency, any such rules, regulations, orders and directives or suspensions thereof prepared under the proclamation of local emergency shall terminate and have no further force or effect. B. Initial emergency measures. All emergency measures taken by the director of emergency services prior to the issuance of an official proclamation of emergency, or prior to any decision by the city council not to issue such proclamation, shall be Ordinance No. NS-XXXX 60 B-45 Page 40 of 44