Richfield |
Code of Ordinances |
Chapter IX. PUBLIC SAFETY |
Section 900. CIVIL DEFENSE: EMERGENCY SERVICES |
§ 900.07. Duties of Director.
Subdivision 1. Intergovernmental relations. The Director, with the consent of the Manager, shall represent the City on any regional or state organizations for emergency service or civil defense. He shall be authorized to develop proposed mutual aid agreements with other political subdivisions within or outside the state for reciprocal emergency services and assistance in a civil defense emergency too great to be dealt with unassisted, and he shall present such agreements to the City Manager for possible presentation to the City Council.
Subd. 2. Basic studies. The Director shall make studies and surveys of the manpower, industries, resources and facilities of the City that he deems necessary to determine their adequacy for civil defense and to plan for their most efficient use in time of a civil defense emergency.
Subd. 3. Plan preparation. The Director shall prepare a comprehensive general plan for the civil defense of the City, and for relief from any natural catastrophe, and present such plan to the Council for its approval. When the Council has approved the plan by resolution, it shall be the duty of all municipal agencies and all emergency service forces of the City to perform the duties and functions assigned by the plan as approved. The plan may be modified in like manner from time to time. The Director shall coordinate the emergency service activities of the City so that they shall be consistent and fully integrated with the emergency service plan of the federal government and the state and correlated with the emergency plans of other political subdivisions within the state.
Subd. 4. Training. In accordance with the state and City emergency service plan, the Director shall institute training programs and public information programs and take all other preparatory steps, including the partial or full mobilization of emergency service forces in advance of actual disaster, as may be necessary to the prompt and effective operation of the City emergency plan in time of a civil defense emergency. He may, from time to time, conduct practice civil defense exercises as he may deem necessary.
Subd. 5. Interdepartmental cooperation. The Director shall utilize the personnel, services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments and agencies of the City to the maximum extent practicable. The officers and personnel of all such departments and agencies shall, to the maximum extent practicable, cooperate with and extend such services and facilities to the local emergency service agency and to the governor upon request. The head of each department and agency, in cooperation with and under the direction of the Director, shall be responsible for the planning and programming of such emergency service activities as will involve the utilization of the facilities of his department or agency. The Director shall, in cooperation with the existing City departments and agencies, affect and organize police reserves, fire reserves, emergency medical personnel and any other personnel that may be required on a volunteer basis to carry out the emergency plans of the City and the state. To the extent that emergency personnel is recruited to augment a regular City government or agency for civil defense emergencies, it shall be assigned to the department or agency for purposes of command. The Director may suspend any emergency service volunteer at any time and require him to surrender any equipment and identification furnished by the City. The Director may dismiss any emergency services volunteer.
Subd. 6. Emergency facilities. Consistent with the emergency plan, the Director shall provide and equip emergency hospitals, casualty stations, ambulances, canteens, evacuation centers and other facilities or conveyances for the care of injured or homeless persons.
Subd. 7. Coordination of activities. The Director shall direct and coordinate the general operations of all local and emergency services during an emergency in conformity with controlling regulations and instructions of state emergency service authorities. The heads of departments and agencies shall be governed by his orders in respect thereto.
Subd. 8. Control center. Consistent with the emergency plan, the Director shall provide and equip at some suitable place in the City a control center and, if required by the state emergency plan, an auxiliary control center to be used during an emergency as headquarters for direction and coordination of civil defense forces. He shall arrange for representation at the control center by municipal departments and agencies, public utilities and other agencies authorized by federal or state authority to carry on required activities during an emergency. He shall arrange for the installation at the control center or necessary facilities for communication with and between heads of emergency services divisions, the station and operating units of municipal services and other agencies concerned with emergency services and for communication with other communities and control centers within the surrounding area and with the federal and state agencies concerned.