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Act Section 8605 and is a signatory to the Orange County Operational Area Agreement. The City adopts the California Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) and the federal National Incident Management System (NIMS) as a basis for emergency plans and response. The framework of these systems includes use of the Incident Command System (ICS), multi -agency and interagency coordination, participation in the Master Mutual Aid Agreement and Systems of the State of California, and the Operational Area concept. The City of Santa Ana will comply with the provisions of the California Emergency Services Act. Section 6. Section 2-403 of Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby added to read as follows: Sec. 2-403. Emergency Operations Plan. The Emergency Operations Committee shall be responsible for the development and maintenance of the City of Santa Ana Emergency Operations Plan (EOP) and related annexes or manuals. The EOP shall provide for the effective mobilization of all the resources of the City, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting a local emergency, and 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 by 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 emergency has been proclaimed as provided in this Division. Section 7. Section 2-404 of Chapter 2 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code is amended to read in full as follows: Sec. 2404. Emergency Proclamations and Measures. A. Proclamations of Local Emergency A Local Emergency, as defined by Section 2-401 of this Division and by 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. Ordinance No. NS -2916 Page 9 of 13