HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance No. 1023-05 08-09-2005 • CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS
ORDINANCE NO. 1023-OS
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS
DESIGNATING THE NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
(NIMS) AS THE BASIS FOR ALL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT IN THE
CITY OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS, PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY
CLAUSE; PROVIDING THAT THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE
CUMULATIVE; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
WHEREAS, the President, in Homeland Security Protection Directive (HSPD) 5, directed the
Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to develop and administer a National Incident
Management System (NIMS), which would provide a consistent nationwide approach for Federal,
State, local, and tribal governments to work together more effectively and efficiently to prevent,
prepare for, respond to and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size or complexity;
and
WHEREAS, the Director of Homeland Security released the final NIMS on March 1, 2004;
and
WHEREAS, the collective input and guidance from all Federal, State, local, and tribal
homeland security partners has been, and will continue to be, vital to the development, effective
• implementation and utilization of a comprehensive NIMS; and
WHEREAS, it is necessary and desirable that all Federal, State, local and tribal emergency
agencies and personnel coordinate their efforts to effectively and efficiently provide the highest
levels of incident management; and
WHEREAS, to facilitate the most efficient and effective incident management it is critical
that Federal, State, local, and tribal organizations utilize standardized terminology, standardized
organizational structures, interoperable communications, consolidated action plans, unified
command structures, uniform personnel qualification standards, uniform standards for planning,
training, and exercising, comprehensive resource management, and designated incident facilities
during emergencies or disasters; and
WHEREAS, the NIMS standardized procedures for managing personnel, communications,
facilities and resources will improve the State's ability to utilize federal funding to enhance local and
state agency readiness, maintain first responder safety, and streamline incident management
processes; and
WHEREAS, the Incident Command System components ofNIMS are already an integral part
of various incident management activities throughout the State, including current emergency
management training programs; and
•
WHEREAS, the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks (9-ll Commission)
recommended adoption of a standardized Incident Command System;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF RICHLAND HILLS, TEXAS:
SECTION 1.
ADOPTION OF NIMS
The City adopts the National Incident Management System dated March 1, 2004.
SECTION 2.
PROVISIONS CUMULATIVE
This ordinance shall be cumulative of all provisions of ordinances and of the Code of
Ordinances of the City of Richland Hills, Texas, as amended, except where the provisions of this
ordinance are indirect conflict with the provisions of such ordinances and such Code, in which event
the conflicting provisions of such ordinances and such Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3.
PROVISIONS SEVERABLE
• It is hereby declared to be the intention of the City Council that the phrases, clauses,
sentences, paragraphs, and sections of this ordinance are severable, and if any phrase, clause
sentence, paragraph or section of this ordinance shall be declared unconstitutional by the valid
judgment or decree of any court of competent jurisdiction, such unconstitutionality shall not affect
any of the remaining phrases, clauses, sentences, paragraphs and sections of this ordinance, since the
same would have been enacted by the City Council without the incorporation in this ordinance of any
such unconstitutional phrase, clause, sentence, paragraph or section.
SECTION 4.
EFFECTIVE DATE
This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its passage and publication
as required bylaw, and it is so ordained.
PASSED AND APPROVED ON THIS ~ DAY OF Ut.GI s,d,.t' 2005.
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