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• <br />LOCAL EMERGENCIES <br />Only the Mayor of a municipality or their legal successors may declare a local emergency. It <br />shall not be continued for a period in excess of three days except by or with the consent of the <br />governing board of the political subdivision. Any order or proclamation declaring, continuing, <br />or terminating a local emergency shall be given prompt and general publicity and shall be filed <br />promptly by the chief of the local records -keeping agency of the subdivision. <br />II. A declaration of a local emergency shall invoke necessary portions of the response and <br />recovery aspects of applicable local or inter jurisdictional disaster plans, and may authorize aid <br />and assistance there under. <br />III. No jurisdictional agency or official may declare a local emergency unless expressly authorized <br />by the agreement under which the agency functions. However, an inter jurisdictional disaster <br />agency shall provide aid and services in accordance with the agreement under which it <br />functions. <br />EMERGENCY REGULATIONS <br />Whenever necessary to meet a declared emergency or to prepare for such an emergency for <br />which adequate regulations have not been adopted by the Governor or the City Council/Mayor, <br />the Council/Mayor may, by resolution, promulgate regulations, consistent with applicable <br />federal or state law or regulation, respecting: the conduct of persons and the use of property <br />during emergencies; the repair, maintenance, and safeguarding of essential public services, <br />emergency health, fire, and safety regulation, drills, or practice periods required for preliminary <br />training, and all other matters which are required to protect public safety, health, and welfare in <br />declared emergencies. <br />II. Every resolution of emergency regulations shall be in writing; shall be dated; shall refer to the <br />particular emergency to which it pertains, if so limited, and shall be filed in the Office of the <br />City Administrator, which copy shall be kept posted and available for public inspection during <br />business hours. Notice of the existence of such regulation and its availability for inspection at <br />the Administrator's Office shall be conspicuously posted at the front of the city hall or other <br />headquarters of the City or at such other places in the affected area as the Council/Mayor shall <br />designate in the resolution. By like resolutions, the Council/Mayor may modify or rescind any <br />such regulation: <br />III. The City Council/Mayor may rescind any such regulation by resolution at any time. If not <br />sooner rescinded, every such regulation shall expire at the end of 30 days after its effective date <br />or at the end of the emergency to which it relates, whichever comes first. Any resolution, rule, <br />or regulation inconsistent with an emergency regulation promulgated by the Council/Mayor <br />shall be suspended during the period of time and to the extent such conflict exists. <br />During a declared emergency, the City is, notwithstanding any statutory or charter provision to <br />the contrary, empowered, through its goveming body, acting within or without the corporate <br />limits of City, to enter into contracts and incur obligations necessary to combat such disaster by <br />protecting the health and safety of persons and property and providing emergency assistance to <br />12 <br />