The Office of Disaster and Emergency Services shall prepare
an emergency management plan which shall be submitted to and approved
by the City Council. The plan shall establish an Emergency Management
Team providing for the use of services, equipment, facilities, and
personnel of all City government divisions and other services providers
during a threatened or actual local disaster emergency. It shall be
the duty of all Emergency Management Team members to perform the functions
assigned to them in the plan and to maintain their portion of the
plan in a state of readiness at all times. All substantive amendments
to the plan shall be approved by the City Council; provided, however,
that in the event an amendment is pending at the time a disaster is
proclaimed, the amendment will be considered approved immediately,
and will remain effective unless specifically revoked by the City
Council.
The Office of Disaster and Emergency Services shall establish
an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) equipped with a communications
system to support government operations in emergencies and provide
other essential facilities and equipment for agencies and activities
assigned emergency functions. The police station at 33 Union Street
shall serve as the primary Emergency Operations Center. The alternate
Emergency Operations Center shall be the Hartford Fire Station at
369 Water Street.
Any person, partnership, association, firm, including the individual
partners, members, officers, and directors thereof, violating any
of the provisions of this chapter, the emergency management plan adopted
hereunder, or any local disaster emergency declaration or regulations
promulgated thereunder shall, upon conviction thereof in a summary
proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine of $500 or imprisonment not
exceeding 90 days, or both.
