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DIVISION 14. - HOUSING AUTHORITY
<br />Sec. 2-641. - Council designated housing authority.
<br />The city council hereby declares itself to be the housing authority pursuant to
<br />Section 34290 of the California Health and Safety Code, and all rights, powers, duties,
<br />privileges and immunities vested by the Housing Authorities Law in such authority shall
<br />be and are vested in said body.
<br />DIVISION 15- EMERGENCY SERVICES
<br />Sec. 2-642. - Purposes.
<br />The purposes of this division are to establish the emergency organization of the city;
<br />to provide for coordination of the emergency functions of the city with all other public
<br />agencies, organizations, businesses and private persons; and to provide for the
<br />preparation and implementation of emergency plans and procedures; all for the
<br />protection of persons and property in the event of a large scale emergency or disaster.
<br />Sec. 2-643. - Definitions.
<br />For the purpose of this division, certain words and phrases shall be construed as
<br />follows, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended:
<br />Emergency or local emergency — Means the duly proclaimed existence of
<br />conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the
<br />territorial limits of the city or county, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire,
<br />flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or
<br />animal infestation or disease, the governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic
<br />prediction, or an earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a
<br />labor controversy, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services,
<br />personnel, equipment, and facilities of the political subdivision and require the combined
<br />forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy
<br />utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond
<br />the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
<br />State of emergency — Means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of
<br />disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state,
<br />caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought,
<br />sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the
<br />governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, or other
<br />conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions
<br />causing a "state of war emergency", which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are
<br />likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of
<br />any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual
<br />aid region or regions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden
<br />Ordinance No. NS-2992
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