HomeMy Public PortalAboutOrdinance 218ORDINANCE NO. 218
AN ORDINANCE OF TEE CITY COUNCIL OF TEE CITY OF BEAUNONT AMENDING
ORDINANCE NO.210 RELATING TO CIVILIAN DEFENSE.
The City Council of the City of Beaumont does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Ordinance No.210 of the City Council of the City of
Beaumont, adopted on the 7th.day of J"anuary,1942, is hereby amended
by the addition thereto of a new section to be numbered section 8,
and to read as follows:
',Section 8. There is hereby created within the city government
for the purpose of administering civilian defense affairs, a Depart-
ment of Civilian Defense which shall consist of:
(1) A Citizens Defense Corps, and
(2) A Citizens War Services Corps.
The Citizens Defense Corps shall be organized and directed by a
Commander to be appointed by the City Council and to serve at its
pleasure. During period of great public calamity, including but not
limited to period of a "state of extreme emergency," as defined in
the State War Powers Act, the Commander shall be empowered and shall
exercise complete executive authority over the city government, its
personnel, and the inhabitants and property of the city, including
power during such tines to issue and enforce rules, regulations, and
orders which he considers necessary for the protection of life and
property. Such powers shall be subordinate to the emergency powers
vested by law in the Governor of the State and certain other state
officials.
The Citizens War Service Corps shall be organized and directed
by a Director of Citizens War Service to be appointed by the City
Council and to serve at its pleasure.
The Commander of the Citizens Defense Corps and the Director of
the Citizens War Service Corps shall be members of the Defense Council.
The Civilian defense committees whose functions pertain to civilian
protection shall be under the direction and supervision of the Com-
mander, and those whose functions pertain to civilian war services
shall be under the direction and supervision of the Director of the
Citizens War Service Corps.
All of the emergency powers created hereby shall expire and be of
no further force and effect from and after the date of "cessation of
hostilities," as defined in the State War Powers Act."
SECTION 2. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an emergency
ordinance, and to be necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health and safety. The occasion constituting the
emergency is the fact that the United States is now at war.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
ordinance, and shall cause the sane to be published once in the
Beaumont Gazette, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, pub-
lished and circulated in the City of Bea»mont, and it shall be in
full force and effect immediately upon its adoption.
ADOPTED the 26th day of January,1944.
Attest:
City Clerk.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF RIVERSIDE)
CITY OF BEAITh O JT )
I, Bernice Conine, City Clerk of the City of Beaumont,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoin` ordinance was
first introduced and read at a Special meeting of the
City Council of said City duly held on the 21st day of January,
1944, and was duly adopted at a Regular meetin;; of said City
Council duly held on the 26th day of January,19-4 by a four-
fifths vote of said Council, towit:
AYES: Councilmen Cox, Blaskows y, LcDaris and O bst .
NOES: Councilmen None.
ABSENT: Councilmen Herbert.
WITNESS my hand and seal
Clerk, City of Beaumont,Calif.