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The EOP shall comply with the principles of the Orange County Operational Area <br />Agreement, the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and the <br />federal National Incident Management System (NIMS). <br />The Emergency Operations Advisory Board shall be responsible to review and <br />recommend adoption of the EOP to City Council, and to implement the requirements of the <br />Plan once adopted. City Council shall review and adopt the Plan by resolution as a policy <br />of the City. Once adopted, the Plan shall be mandatory upon City departments and <br />agencies, employees and registered volunteer emergency workers and shall have the effect <br />of law whenever an emergency has been proclaimed as provided in this Division. <br />Section 7. Section 2 -404 of Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is <br />amended to read in full as follows: <br />Sec. 2-404. Emergency Proclamations and Measures. <br />A. Proclamations of Local Emergency <br />A Local Emergency, as defined by Section 2 -401 of this Division and by California <br />Emergency Services Act Section 8558(c), may be proclaimed upon conditions of disaster <br />or extreme peril, existing or imminently likely, so as to threaten lives and property, and by <br />reason of its magnitude is or is likely to be beyond the control of the available services, <br />personnel, equipment and facilities of the City. <br />The Director of Emergency Services may request the City Council to proclaim the <br />existence of a Local Emergency, if the City Council is in session, or may issue such <br />proclamation if the City Council is not in session. Such proclamation must be made within <br />10 days of the occurrence of the disaster or emergency. Whenever a Local Emergency is <br />proclaimed by the Director, the City Council must, within seven days from the date of the <br />original proclamation by the Director, approve a resolution ratifying the proclamation, or <br />allow the proclamation to expire. City Council shall review the need for continuing the Local <br />Emergency at least once every 30 days and shall terminate the emergency or allow it to <br />expire at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. <br />During a Local Emergency, the City Council or the Director of Emergency Services <br />may promulgate ordinances, orders or regulations necessary to provide for the protection of <br />life and property, including orders or regulations imposing a curfew within designated <br />boundaries where necessary to preserve the public order and safety. Such orders and <br />regulations and amendments and rescissions thereof shall be in writing and shall be given <br />widespread publicity and notice. <br />The City Council shall proclaim the termination of the Local Emergency at the earliest <br />possible date that conditions warrant. Upon termination of the Local Emergency, any such <br />rules, regulations, orders and directives or suspensions thereof prepared under the <br />Proclamation of Local Emergency shall terminate and have no further force or effect. <br />10 <br />11B-12 <br />