ORDINANCE 9174q99
ORDINANCE NO. 917
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.44 OF THE
"EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE" WHICH SAID
CHAPTER RELATES TO EMERGENCY SERVICES
ORGANIZATION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 2.44 of the "E1 Segundo Municipal
Code" is amended to read as follows:
CHAPTER 2.44
EMERGENCY SERVICES ORGANIZATION
2.44.010 DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this
chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the
meanings respectively ascribed to them in this section:
"Emergency services" means the preparation for and
the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than
functions for which military forces are primarily respon-
sible, to prevent, minimize and repair injury and damage
resulting from disasters. It shall not include, nor does
any provision of this chapter apply to any condition re-
lating to a labor controversy.
"Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence
of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety
of persons and property within the territorial limits of
this city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire,
flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earthquake or other con-
ditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor
controversy, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond
the control of the sevices, personnel, equipment, and facil-
ities of this city and require the combined forces of other
political subdivisions to combat.
"State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence
of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety
of persons and property within the state caused by such
conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic,
riot, or earthquake or other conditions causing a "state
of war emergency," which conditions, by reason of their
magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the control of
the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any
single county, city and county, or city and require the
combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat.
"State of war emergency" means the condition which
exists immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof
by the Governor, whenever this state or nation is attacked
by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the
state of a warning from the federal government indicating
that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.
2.44.020 PURPOSES OF CHAPTER. The declared purposes
of this chapter are to provide for the preparation and
carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and
property within this city in the event of an emergency;
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the direction of the emergency organization; and the coor-
dination of the emergency functions of this city with all
other public agencies, corporations, organizations, and
affected private persons.
2.44.030 EXPENDITURES. Any expenditures made in
connection with emergency activities, including mutual
aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for
the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and
property of the city.
2.44.040 DISASTER COUNCIL - CREATED. The city
disaster council is hereby created.
2.44.050 COUNCIL - COMPOSITION. The city disaster
council created under the provisions of the preceding
section shall consist of the following:
(1) The mayor, who shall be chairman;
(2) The city manager, who shall be director of emer-
gency services and vice chairman;
(3) The assistant director, appointed by the city
manager with the advice and consent of the city council
who, under the supervision of the director, shall develop
emergency plans and organize the emergency services program
of the city, and shall have such other duties as may be
assigned by the director;
(4) Such deputy directors and chiefs of emergency
services as are provided for in the current emergency
plan of the city, adopted pursuant to this chapter;
(5) Such representatives of civic, business, labor,
veterans, professional or other organizations having an
official emergency responsibility, as may be appointed
by the director with the advice and consent of the city
council.
2.44.060 COUNCIL - MEETINGS. The disaster council
shall meet upon the call of the chairman, or in his absence
from the city or inability to call the meeting, upon the
call of the vice chairman.
2.44.070 COUNCIL - POWERS AND DUTIES. It shall
be the duty of the city disaster council and it is hereby
empowered to review 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 the plans and agreements.
2.44.080 DIRECTOR - OFFICE CREATED. There is hereby
created the office of director of emergency services. The
officer shall be the city manager.
2.44.090 DIRECTOR - POWERS AND DUTIES. The director
of emergency services is hereby empowered:
(1) To request the city council to proclaim the exis-
tence or threatened existence of a "local emergency" and
the termination thereof, if the city council is in session,
or to issue the proclamation if the city council is not
in session, subject to confirmation by the city council
within 7 days thereafter or the proclamation shall have
no further force or effect.
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(2) To request the governor to proclaim a "state of
emergency" when in the opinion of the director the resources
of the area are inadequate to cope with the disaster. The
request must be confirmed by a resolution adopted by the
City Council;
(3) To control and direct the effort of the emergency
organization of the city for the accomplishment of the
purposes of this chapter;
(4) To direct coordination and cooperation between
divisions, services and staff of the emergency organization
of the city, and to resolve questions of authority and
responsibility that may arise between them;
(5) To represent the disaster organization of the
city in all dealings with public or private agencies
pertaining to civil defense and disaster;
(6) To designate the order of succession to that
office, to take effect in the event the director is unavail-
able to attend meetings and otherwise perform his duties
during an emergency. Such order of succession shall be
approved by the city council.
2.44.100 DIRECTOR - POWERS IN EVENT OF DISASTER. 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 Director of the State Office of
Emergency Services, or the existence of a "state of war
emergency," the director is hereby empowered:
(1) To make and issue rules and regulations on matters
reasonably related to the protection of life and property
as affected by such disaster; provided, however, such
rules and regulations must be confirmed at the earliest
practicable time by the city council;
(2) To obtain vital supplies, equipment and such other
properties found lacking and needed for the protection of
the life and property of the people and bind the city for
the fair value thereof, and if required immediately, to
commandeer the same for public use;
(3) To require emergency services of any city officer
or employee and, in the event of the proclamation of a
"state of emergency" in the county in which this city 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;
(4) To requisition necessary personnel or material
of any city department or agency;
(5) To execute all of his ordinary power as city
manager, all of the special powers conferred upon him by
this chapter or by resolution (or emergency plan) adopted
pursuant thereto, all powers conferred upon him by any
statute, agreement approved by the city council, or by
any other lawful authority, and in conformity with Section
38791 of the Government Code, to exercise complete authority
over the city and to exercise all police power vested
in the city by the Constitution and general laws.
2.44.110 EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION - COMPOSITION. All
officers and employees of the city, together with those
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volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency,
and all groups, organizations and persons who may by
agreement or operation of laws, including persons comman-
deered under the provisions of Section 2.44.100 (3), be
charged with duties incident to the protection of life
and property in the city during the emergency shall con-
stitute the emergency organization of the city.
2.44.120 EMERGENCY PLAN. The functions and duties
of the emergency organization shall be established in the
City Emergency Plan. The plan shall provide for the effec-
tive mobilization of all of the resources of this city,
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.
2.44.130 VIOLATIONS. It shall be a misdemeanor,
punishable as provided in Section 1.12.010, for any person
during a disaster:
(1) Wilfully to obstruct, hinder or delay any member
of the emergency organization in the enforcement of any
lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter,
or in the performance of any duty imposed upon him by
virtue of this chapter;
(2) To do any act forbidden by any lawful rules or
regulations issued pursuant to this chapter, if the act
is of such nature as to give, or be likely to give assistance
to the enemy, or to imperil the lives or property of inhabitants
of the city, or to prevent, hinder or delay the defense or
protection thereof;
(3) To wear, carry or display, without authority, any
means of identification specified by the emergency agency
of the state.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall become effective at
midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the date of the
final passage and adoption thereof.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered
in the book of original ordinances of said city; shall make a
minute of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of
the meeting at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall
within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause
the same to be published once in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly
newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated within
said City of El Segundo,and which is hereby designated for that
purpose.
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PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED THIS 4th day of
-January , 1977.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
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Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
California
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
VALERIE A, $URROWES, , , , City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. , 917 .
is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No, . , ..917..... of the said City of
El Segundo, California, entitled:
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING CHAPTER 2.44 OF THE
"EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE" WHICH SAID
CHAPTER RELATES TO EMERGENCY SERVICES
ORGANIZATION
which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed
by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a
regular meeting of the said Council held on the ... 4th.. day of . , January
19.7 ........ and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen . Bue,, Nagel,, Rockhpi¢, .Vpp.Vranken, , , , , , , .
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NOES: Councilmen .None,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, „
ABSENT: . QPP r1PA rDPP.. NQue ...... ...............................
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933
of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance
No. . 9l ' 7.... was duly and regularly published according to law and the order of
the City Council of said City in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper of
general circulation, printed, published and circulated within said City and that the
same was so published therein on the following date, to wit:... SAN 1 3,1977........
City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California
(SEAL)
By......... ...............................
Deputy