[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Pleasantville
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 6-7-1982 by Ord.
No. 11-1982 as Art. I of Ch. 14 of the 1982 Code]
The Emergency Communications Planning Report and plan bond therein,
as recommended by the Mayor, be and the same is hereby officially adopted
as the official Pleasantville Emergency Communications Plan, a copy thereof
being annexed hereto and herein incorporated by reference, without inclusion
of the text thereof therein.
Copies of said plan have been placed on file in the office of the City
Clerk and will remain on file there for the use and examination of the public.
In the event of a natural disaster or a local disaster emergency or
a war emergency, when declared by the Emergency Management Coordinator of
the City of Pleasantville, in accordance with federal and state laws pertaining
thereto, the provisions of the emergency operational plan shall come into
force.
The following words and phrases as used in this article shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any unusual incident resulting from natural or unnatural causes which
endangers the health, safety or resources of the residents of the City of
Pleasantville and which is or may become too large in scope or unusual in
type to be handled in its entirety by regular municipal operating services.
Includes any disaster or the imminence thereof resulting from natural
or unnatural causes other than enemy attack and limited to the extent that
action by the Governor under state laws pertaining thereto is not required.
Includes any disaster occurring any where within the state as a result
of enemy attack or the imminent danger thereof.
Whenever the City of Pleasantville Emergency Communications Plan shall
come into force under the terms of this article, all employees of the city
shall give full cooperation to the Emergency Management Coordinator and his
staff in the planning, activating, coordinating and the conduct of disaster
control operations within the municipality. Prior to the occurring of a disaster,
local disaster emergency or war emergency, for test or drill purposes, all
employees of the City of Pleasantville shall give every possible and reasonable
cooperation to the Emergency .
[Adopted 6-7-1982 by Ord.
No. 11-1982 as Art. II of Ch. 14 of the 1982 Code]
Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence
of disasters of unprecedented size and destruction from fire, flood, hurricane,
tropical storm or other natural causes and in order to ensure that preparations
of this city will be adequate to deal with 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 residents of this city,
it is hereby found and declared to be necessary to create a Municipal Emergency
Management Agency; to provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other cities
within the State of New Jersey and adjoining states and to cooperate with
the state government with respect to carrying out emergency functions; and
to create and test an emergency operations plan for all division of city government
in the event of one of the aforementioned disasters.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this article and the policy
of this city that all emergency functions of the state government, including
its various departments and agencies of other municipalities and private agencies
of every type, coordinate its activities so that a comprehensive plan may
make the best use of this city's manpower, resources and facilities in the
event that a disaster does occur.
It is further declared to be the purpose of this article and the policy of this city to organize an emergency management organization, in conformity with the Civil Defense Act, as directed by Public Law 1942, Chapter 251, as amended.[2] The name of this organization shall be Emergency Management Agency.
The Mayor of this community shall be responsible for the appointment
of a qualified Coordinator pursuant to state and federal guidelines as of
the date of his appointment. It shall be the responsibility of the Coordinator
to appoint a Deputy Coordinator and staff as may be needed to effectively
operate this organization. It is the responsibility of the staff, under the
direction of the Coordinator and Deputy Coordinator, to create and test the
emergency operations plan and to be prepared to activate it whenever necessary.
It shall be the responsibility of this organization to carry out and
enforce such orders, rules and regulations as issued by the Mayor or the chain
of command as outlined by the emergency operations plan, under the authority
of this article. The organization shall have available for inspection all
such orders and rules and regulations made by the Mayor or the chain of command
or under their authority.
The organization shall have a fully equipped emergency operations center
which shall be ready to coordinate all city functions in the event of a disaster.
It shall also have an alternative operations center planned in the event that
the first shall be damaged or unusable.
