[HISTORY: Promulgated by the Mayor of the City of Port Jervis 2-26-1968
as Executive Order No. 1 (Ch. A161 of the 1981 Code). Amendments
noted where applicable.]
[1]
Editor's Note: The current Emergency Response Plan for the City of
Port Jervis is on file with the Emergency Management Office, City Clerk-Treasurer
and Mayor. The City has also agreed by resolution adopted 8-28-2006 to follow
standards as set by the National Institute of Management Systems (NIMS).
In the event of an enemy attack, all City officers of the City of Port
Jervis shall continue regular City government operations, to the extent permitted
by attack conditions, from the City emergency operation center, and will follow
the lines of succession established by local law for continuity of government.
The following officers and agencies of the City of Port Jervis, under
the guidance of the Civil Defense Director, shall direct and coordinate performance
of the specific emergency civil defense functions to include but not be limited
to those hereinafter designated:
A.
City Attorney. The City Attorney shall render advice
and opinions to the chief executive officer Mayor of the City of Port Jervis
with regard to continuity of government and interpretation, application and
implementation of the New York State Defense Emergency Act and related defense
emergency laws, other relevant laws and regulations and orders of the State
Civil Defense Commission, and draft executive orders, regulations and orders
in coordinating with the executive officer Mayor of the City of Port Jervis
and the Civil Defense Director.
B.
City Clerk. The City Clerk is responsible for developing
a plan for implementing a system to preserve all of the essential records
of the City of Port Jervis; in addition, in a post-attack situation, under
the general direction of the City of Port Jervis Civil Defense Director or
myself (Mayor), he is responsible for the preparation and release of official
statements to the press, radio, television or other news media. He will prepare
releases to be disseminated via the Emergency Broadcasting System and will
act as the City's public relations officer in all official matters. He is
directed to immediately forward a copy of this executive order to City department
heads, City officers or employees referred to herein, with all due speed.
C.
Chief of Police. The Chief of Police shall utilize regular
and auxiliary police for maintenance of law and order, including protection
of life and property; regulate and control traffic; direct injured to medical
installations and homeless to welfare shelters; and provide assistance to
handicapped persons by obtaining transportation for them and directing them
to suitable care installation shelters; and be constantly on alert for disorders
such as riots, guarding food supplies, banks, resources of all kinds, such
as gas, oil, lumber, coal, hardware, clothing, shoes, etc.; patrol streets;
prevent boating; and be responsible for the training and organizing of approved
volunteers equipped as auxiliary police for duty in an emergency.
D.
Chief of Fire Department. The Chief of the Fire Department,
assisted by Assistant Chiefs and officers of the Department and personnel
by way of trained firemen, shall, in sufficient numbers, estimated at 25 able-bodied
men and three officers per company, with all essential equipment for fighting
fires and assisting in rescue work, execute such other duties and responsibilities
as may be required by any situation in an emergency or disaster, as may develop,
and such other functions than those designated. He is responsible for recruiting,
training and equipping the required number of auxiliary firemen.
E.
Public works service. The Public Works Department shall
assign, recruit and organize such additional personnel as required and all
publicly owned construction equipment and publicly employed construction personnel
into public works, public utility and rescue teams; and shall identify, locate
and interrogate, with such teams, all privately owned construction equipment
with trained construction personnel, public utility and maintenance personnel
included, to be prepared in any emergency to clear debris, perform highway
and bridge maintenance and emergency repairs, rehabilitate vital City services
on streets, sewers and all essential facilities and public services at all
times during an emergency, at all hours, day or night, as may be required
or directed.
F.
Chief of Water Department. The Chief of the Water Department
shall recruit, train and equip additional Water Department personnel, if required,
to be prepared to repair damaged or broken water mains, damaged reservoirs,
to make tests of water as to radioactive content at all times during and after
an emergency, and at such other times be prepared to assist whenever required,
as directed.
G.
Chief of electrical maintenance service. In a natural
disaster or post-attack situation, the Chief of the City's electrical service
is responsible for directing all activity required to restore and maintain
electric service within the City, including but not limited to all necessary
electrical repairs, removing dangerous wires, the testing and operation of
any emergency power generators, procurement of fuel necessary for this operation,
and for determining priorities for restoration of the electrical service in
the City of Port Jervis.
H.
Director of Industrial Development Commission. The Director
of the Industrial Development Commission shall meet with the Director of Civil
Defense with a view toward carrying out, with the advice of industry management,
such post-attack measures as to enable industrial management and business
establishments to protect their essential facilities and personnel, continue
management and resume production activity following attack emergency.
I.
Commissioner of Public Welfare. The Welfare Commissioner
will be responsible for all the post-attack welfare needs of the people of
the City of Port Jervis, assisted by the local Red Cross organization; will
maintain rosters of persons assigned to emergency housing; and provide emergency
housing, food, clothing, financial assistance or any other commodity required
for the preservation of life.
J.
Director of Health Department. The Director of the Health
Department is in charge of providing health and medical services to the population,
care and treatment of the ill and injured, and identification and disposing
of the dead in an emergency.
K.
Health Inspector of Public Health Department. Service
are charged with the inspection of food, water, drinking or cooking, and for
the decontamination facilities of radioactive evacuees. The mortuary service
is assigned to the Department of Health of the City of Port Jervis.
L.
City Superintendent of Schools service. The Superintendent
of Schools shall provide shelter protection for pupils and staff members and
provide for the maximum utilization of available school facilities and resources
in support of civil defense emergency operations, including but not limited
to the following:
(1)
Coordination with other services in the care of pupils
denied parental care by reason of emergency conditions.
(2)
Making available for civil defense use school facilities,
buses and other school-owned equipment not required for immediate use of pupils.
(3)
Operating and maintaining school buildings for use of
and by medical health service, welfare services and other emergency services
as may be directed.
(4)
Implementing the rules, orders and regulations of the
Civil Defense Commission and the Commissioner of Education relating to the
state-wide school system under emergency conditions requirements.
(5)
Providing shelters for pupils within the school system
and recruiting and training shelter managers for school shelters.
(6)
All schools, public or private, are under the command
of the Superintendent of Schools of the City of Port Jervis civil defense
jurisdiction in an emergency.
(7)
The Superintendent of Port Jervis Schools, Central School
District, will advise all public and private schools' staff or personnel that
they, when not carrying out their assigned normal duties following an enemy
attack, will report, to the City of Port Jervis Civil Defense Director for
a duty assignment.
M.
General. All City agency heads or personnel assigned
civil defense functions via this executive order will report to the City's
emergency operations center for post-attack operations, tests or exercises
when so directed by either the City Director of Civil Defense or myself, Mayor
of Port Jervis.
