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HomeMy WebLinkAbout21510 W ORDINANCE NO. 215 AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS ALTOS HILLS AMENDING CHAPTER 1 OF TITLE 4 OF THE LOS ALTOS HILLS MUNICIPAL CODE ENTITLED, "EMERGENCY SERVICES" The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills does ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Amendment of Code. Chapter 1 of Title 4 of the Los Altos Hills Municipal Code hereby is amended to read as follows: CHAPTER 1. Emergency Services. SECTION 4-1.01. 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 town in the event of an emergency; the direction of the emergency organization; and the coordination of the emergency functions of this town with all other public agencies, corporations, organiza- tions, and affected private persons. SECTION 4-1.02. Definition. As used in this Chapter, "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 town caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earth- quake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or immin- ent threat of war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of this town, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat. %W W SECTION 4-1.03. Disaster Council Membership. The Los Altos Hills Disas- ter 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. Such chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in a current emergency plan of this town, adopted pursuant to this ordinance. d. Such representatives of civic, business, labor, veterans, profession- al 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 4-1.04. Disaster Council Powers And Duties. It shall be the duty of the Los Altos Hills Disaster Council, and it is hereby empowered, to develop and recommend for adoption by the city council, emergency and mutual aid plans and agreements and such ordinances and resolutions and rules and regulations as are necessary to implement such plans and agreements. The Dis- aster Council shall meet upon call of the chairman or, in his absence from the town or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice chairman. SECTION 4-1.05. 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 Emergen- cy Services, who shall be appointed by the Director. SECTION 4-1.06. 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 -2- existence of a "local emergency" if the city council is in session, or to is- sue such proclamation if the city council is not in session. Whenever a lo- cal 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 of 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 copy with the emergency. 3. Control and direct the effort of the emergency organization of this Town 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 Town; and resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise between them. 5. Represent this Town 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 Di- rector of the State Office of Emergency Services, or the existence of a "state of war emergency", the Director is hereby empowered: 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. Obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property and to bind the Town for the fair value thereof and, if required immediately, to commandeer the same for public use; -3- W r c. To require emergency services of any Town officer or employee and, in the event of the proclamation of a "state of emergency" in the county in which this Town 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 Town department or agency; and e. To execute all of his ordinany 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 and agreement approved by the city council, and by any other lawful authority. b. The Director of Emergency Services shall designate the order of suc- cession to that office, to take effect in the event the Director is unavailable to attend meetings and otherwise 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 Town; and shall have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the Director. SECTION 4-1.07. Emergency Organization. All officers and employees of this Town, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency, and all groups, organizations and persons who may by agreement or -4- TW W operation of law, including persons impressed into service under the provisions of Section 4-1.06-a, 6 - and ,c of this Chapter, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property in this Town during such emergency, shall constitute the emergency organization of the Town of Los Altos Hills. SECTION 4-1.08. Emergency Plan. The Town of Los Altos Hills Disaster Council shall be responsible for the development of the Los Altos Hills Emer- gency Plan, which plan shall provide for the effective mobilization of all of the resources of this Town, 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 4-1.09. Expeditures. Any expenditures made in connection with emergency activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed conclu- sively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and pro- perty of the Town of Los Altos Hills. SECTION 4-1.10. Punishment Of Violations. It shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500) or by im- prisonment 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 organ- ization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this Chapter 1, or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by virtue of this Chapter. b. Do any act forbidden by any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this Chapter, if such act is of such a nature as to give or be likely to give -5- assistance to the enemy or to imperil the lives or property of inhabitants of this Town, or to prevent, hinder or delay the defense or protection thereof. c. Wear, carry or display, without authority, any means of identifica- tions specified by the emergency agency of the State. SECTION 4-2. Effective Date. This ordinance shall be posted in three (3) public places within the Town of Los Altos Hills and shall become effective thirty (30) days following its adoption. SECTION 4-3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or the application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such inval- idity shall not affect other provisions or applications, and to this end the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable. I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills on the 16thday of January , 197 4 , and was thereafter, at a regular meeting of said Council, held on the 6th day of February 197 74, passed and adopted by the following roll call vote: AYES: Councilmen Cheney, McReynolds, Councilwoman Miller, Mayor Helgesson NOES: None ABSENT: Councilman Grabowski ABSTAIN: None Approved: �• . .-�� Mayor ATTEST City CiLrk