§ 13.01. Policy and purpose.  


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  • (a)

    Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of major size and destructiveness, and in order to ensure that mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery actions taken by the city will be adequate to successfully manage such disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the city, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:

    (1)

    To establish a local emergency management department.

    (2)

    To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during emergencies.

    (3)

    To provide for the rendering of mutual aid between the city and other political subdivisions of the state and of other states, with respect to the carrying out of emergency management functions.

    (b)

    It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the city that all emergency management functions of the city be coordinated to the maximum extent practicable with the comparable functions of the federal government, of the state and other states and localities, and of private agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective preparations and use may be made of the nation's personnel, resources and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.

(Code 1956, § 73.01; C.F. No. 07-780, § 1, 9-26-07)