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ORDINANCE N0. 1098
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF LYNWOOD RELATING TO
EMERGENCY ORGANIZATIONS AND FUNCTIONS
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. 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 city in the event of an
emergency; the direction of the emergency functions of this city with all
other public agencies, corporations, and affected private persons.
SECTIOiV 2. Definition. As used in this ordinance, "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 city
caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic,
riot, or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting
from war or imminent 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
city, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to
combat.
SECTION 3. Disaster Council Membership. The Lynwood Disaster
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. The assistant director of emergency services.
D. Such chiefs of emergency services as are provided for in
a current emergency plan of this city, adopted pursuant to this ordinance.
E. Such representatives of civic, business, labor, veterans, pro-
fessional, 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. Disaster Council Powers and Duties. It shall be the
duty of the Lynwood 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
Disaster Council shall meet upon call of the chairman or, in his absence
from the city or inability to call such meeting, upon call of the vice
chairman.
SECTION 5. Director and Assistant Director of Emergency Services.
A. There is hereby create t e o ice o erector o emergency
services. The City Manager shall be the director of emergency services.
B. There is hereby created the office of assistant director of
emergency services, who shall be appointed by the director.
SECTION 6. 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 existence of a "local emergency" if the city council is in
session. 4Jhenever a local 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 or 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 cope with the emergency.
(3) Control and direct the effort of the emergency organization
of this city 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 city; and resolve questions of
authority and responsibility that may arise between them.
(5) Represent this city 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 Director 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) To obtain vital supplies, equipment, and such other
properties found lacking and needed for the protection of life and property
and to bind the city for the fair value thereof and, if required immediate-
ly, to commandeer the same for public use;
,~- (c) To req wire 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;
(d) To requisition necessary personnel or material of
any city department or agency; and
(e) To execute all of his ordinary 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, b,y any agreement approved by
city council, and by any other lawful authority.
B. The director of emergency services shall designate the order
of succession 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 city; and shall
have such other powers and duties as may be assigned by the director.
SECTION 7. Emergency Organization. All officers and employees
of this city, together with those volunteers forces enrolled to aid them
during an emergency, and all groups, organizations, and persons who may by
agreement or operation of law, including persons impressed into service under
the provisions of SEC. 6 .A. (6) (c) of this ordinance, be charged with
duties incident to the protection of life and property in this city during
such emergency, shall constitute the emergency organization of the City of
Lynwood.
SECTION 8. Emergency Plan. The Lynwood Disaster Council shall
be responsible for the development of the City of Lynwood Emergency Plan,
which shall provide for the effective mobilization of all of the resources
of this city, both public and private, to meet any condition constituting
a local 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 9. 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 of Lynwood.
SECTION 10. Punishment of Violations. It shall be a misdemeanor,
punishable by a fine of not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500), or by '
imprisonment 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 organization in the enforcement of any lawful. rule of regulation
issued pursuant to this ordinance, or in the performance of any duty im-
posed upon him by virtue of this ordinance.
B. Do any act forbidden by any lawful rule or regulation issued
pursuant to this ordinance, if such act is of such a nature as to give or
be likely to give assistance to the enemy or to imperil the lives or pro-
perty of inhabitants of this city, or to prevent, hinder, or delay the
defense or protection thereof.
C. Wear, carry, or display, without authority, any means of
identification specified by the emergency agency of the State.
SECTION 11. Repeal of Conflicting Ordinances.
A. Repeal Ordinance #821, dated March 7, 1967.
B. "Provided, that it is the intent of the city council in enacting
this ordinance that it shall be considered a revision and continuation of
the ordinance repealed by this ordinance, and the status of volunteers shall
not be affected by such repeal; nor shall plans and agreements, rules and
regulations, or resolutions adopted pursuant to such repealed ordinance
affected by such repeal until amended, modified, or superseded as provided
in this ordinance."
SECTION 12. Effective Date. This ordinance shall become effective
thirty (30) days from and after its passage.
SECTION 13. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or
application thereof to any person or circumstance is held invalid, such
invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications, and to this
end the provisions of this ordinance are declared to be severable.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
said City held on the 1.5th day of AP~ril~, 1980, and finally
adopted and ordered punished at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the 6th day of _~, 1980.
Ayes: Councilmen - Byork, Morris, Rowe, Thompson, Green.
Noes: Councilmen - None.
Absent: None.
EUGENE GREEN, Y R
CITY OF LYNWOOD
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RENE COFFEY, C'~^CLERK
CITY OF LYNWOOD
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of
Lynwood, and ex-officio clerk of the Council of said
City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and
correct copy of Ordinance No. 1098 adopted by the
City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the
same was passed on the date and by the vote therein
stated.
Dated this 8th day of May. , 1980.
LAU~~ E E COFFEY, CITY-C~
CITY OF LYNWOOD
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