§ 2.44.080. Director of Emergency Services—Powers and duties.

The Director of Emergency Services shall have the following powers and duties:

A.

To make key appointments, and to make all other appointments or delegate the making of such appointments, within the disaster corps;

B.

To request the City Council to proclaim the existence of a local emergency if such Council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if such Council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Director of Emergency Services, the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect. The City Council shall review the necessity for continuing the local emergency no less frequently than every fourteen (14) days until the emergency is terminated;

C.

During the existence of a state of war emergency, or the proclaimed existence of a state of emergency or a local emergency affecting the city, to:

1.

Control and direct the activities of the city disaster corps,

2.

Use all city resources for the preservation of life and property and to reduce the effects of disaster,

3.

Resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise in disaster operations,

4.

Obtain vital supplies, equipment, and other resources needed for the preservation of life and property by either binding the city for the fair value thereof or by commandeering the same,

5.

Delegate to elected and appointed officials of the city such duties and authorities as he or she deems necessary,

6.

Make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by any condition proclaimed an emergency as provided in this chapter,

7.

Require performance of emergency services by any city officer or employee and to command the aid of as many citizens of the city as he or she thinks necessary in the execution of his or her duties, and

8.

Exercise complete authority over the city and to exercise all police power vested in the city by the Constitution and general laws;

D.

In addition to the powers granted in this section, the Director of Emergency Services shall have such powers incidental to the performance of his or her duties as shall be necessary to allow him or her to carry out the disaster operations plan of the city, it being the intent of this chapter that the enumerated powers in this section are not limitations upon his or her powers.

(Ord. 60 § 1, 1994: Ord. 55 § 1, 1994: Ord. 91-05 § 2.20.060)