Chapter 8.10
CIVIL EMERGENCIES
Sections:
8.10.010 Definitions.
8.10.020 Power and authority.
8.10.030 Issuance of orders – Procedures.
8.10.040 Violation deemed misdemeanor.
8.10.050 Violation – Penalty.
8.10.010 Definitions.
(1) "Emergency" shall be defined to include any occurrence or happening as is occasioned by war, threat of war, the disasters of fire or flood, or any other similar catastrophe which shall be declared by the President of the United States of America, the Governor of the state of Washington, or the mayor and council of the town of Cathlamet to require the creation of auxiliary units for the purpose of augmenting the duly constituted civil or military units in safeguarding, life and property and the maintenance of law and order.
(2) "Agency" shall be defined to include any council, commission, committee, board or any other similar agency as shall be now, or as may hereafter be, created for the purpose of augmenting the duly constituted civil and military units with auxiliary units during the occurrence or happening of any such emergency.
(3) "Order" shall be defined to include any order, rule, regulation, resolution or similar promulgation duly made and issued by any such agency from time to time as may be necessary for the common safety during the existence of any such emergency. (Ord. 199 § 1, 1942)
8.10.020 Power and authority.
Whenever an emergency shall be declared as herein provided whereby it shall become necessary to augment the duly constituted authority of civil and military units with any agency for the protection of life and property and the maintenance of law and order and with proper authority to meet the various exigencies as they may arise, such agency shall have the power to, and it is hereby authorized to make, enact, issue and enforce any order deemed necessary for the purpose of insuring the common safety, the preservation of life and property and the maintenance of law and order in the town of Cathlamet during any such emergency. (Ord. 199 § 2, 1942)
8.10.030 Issuance of orders – Procedures.
All orders which shall be necessary to effect the purposes of this chapter shall indicate that they were issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, shall bear the date thereof, shall bear the signature of the duly authorized official of such agency and be attested by the mayor; shall be uniform in their application for the common safety during such emergency; shall be posted in at least three public places, one of which shall be at the Town Hall; and shall be effective and enforceable immediately, or at such other time as may therein be prescribed, and for the duration of such emergency. Duly executed copies of all such orders shall be filed with the clerk of the town and shall be open for public inspection. (Ord. 199 § 3, 1942)
8.10.040 Violation deemed misdemeanor.
Any person violating any order relating to any blackouts, air raid warnings, traffic regulations or any other order or regulation relating to the common safety of the inhabitants of the town of Cathlamet, the safeguard of their life and property, and for the maintenance of law and order during any such emergency, or of the order or direction of any duly authorized member of any such agency or of any unit thereof acting pursuant to the authority of any such order or regulation relating thereto, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punished as herein provided. (Ord. 199 § 4, 1942)
8.10.050 Violation – Penalty.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any provision of this chapter, or of any provision of any order issued pursuant to the authority herein granted, or pursuant to the authority of any agency heretofore created and existing, or which may be hereafter created and existing for the purpose of effectively carrying out the provisions of this chapter, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $250.00 or by imprisonment in the jail of said town for a period of not to exceed 90 days, or by both such fine and imprisonment. (Ord. 199 § 5, 1942)