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 Sulphur
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 7. CIVIL DEFENSE

  § 7-4. Organization; appointments.  

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  • (a)

    The city council is hereby authorized and directed to create an organization for civil defense and emergency preparedness utilizing to the fullest extent the existing agencies within the city. The mayor, as the executive head of the municipal government, shall be the director of the civil defense and emergency preparedness forces of the city and shall be responsible for their organization, administration and operations.

    (b)

    The organization shall consist of the following:

    (1)

    The office of civil defense and emergency preparedness within the executive department of the city government and under the direction of the mayor and there shall be an executive head of the office of civil defense and emergency preparedness who shall be known as the coordinator of the office of civil defense and emergency preparedness, and such assistants and other employees as are deemed necessary for the proper functioning of the organization;

    (2)

    The employees, equipment and facilities of all city departments, boards, institutions and commissions will participate in the civil defense and emergency preparedness activity. Duties assigned to a city department shall be the same or similar to the normal duties of the department;

    (3)

    Volunteer persons and agencies and industry, offering services to, and accepted by, the city.

    (c)

    The civil defense director, i.e., the mayor, shall appoint a coordinator of the city office of civil defense and emergency preparedness, who shall be a person well versed and trained in planning operations involving the activities of many different agencies which will operate to protect the public health, safety and welfare in the event of danger from any enemy action or disaster.

    (d)

    The civil defense director shall designate and appoint at least three (3) deputy directors, one (1) of whom will assume the emergency duties of the director in the event of his absence or inability to act, the intent being that there will always be a civil defense director in charge in the city.

(Ord. No. 182, 6-11-79)