Ord 0259-AN ORDINANCE. ESTABLISHING CERTAIN EMERGENCY SERVICES A-D ORGANIZATIONS)ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE. ESTABLISHING CERTAIN
E RGENCY SERVICES A-D ORGANIZATIONS)
A DEFENSE COUNCIL) AND A COORDI11AT I NG
CENTER) AND PROVIDING FOR THE OPERA-
TION THEREOF.
The Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos does ordain
as follows:
See. la The purpose of this ordinance is to provide facilities
and agencies for the protection of civilian lives and property in
the event of an assault upon the Town by the enemies of the United
States) and to cooperate with other county) state and national
facilities and agencies for our mutual protection.
Sees 2. There are hereby created the following Divisions of
Emergency Service and said Divisions shall include the following
emergency service organizations) whether volunteer or otherwise:
(a) Division of Emergency Fire Service
(1) Fire Department
(2) Auxiliary Firemen
C3) Rescue Squads
C Division 'of Emergency Police Service
Cl) Police Department
(2.) Auxiliary Police
C3) Bomb Squads
Cam} Division of Gardens Service
(1) Air Raid Wardens
(2.) Fire Watchers
(3) Emergency Food and Housing Corps
Cd) Division of Emergency Medical Service
(1) Medical Corps
(2) Nurses Aid Corps
(3) Emergency Medical Field Units
(4) Ambulance Units.
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(5) casualty Stations
W) First Aid Posts:
(e) Division of Emergency Public Works Service
(l) Repair Squads for roadsa sewers and water-mains
(2) Demolition and Clearance. Squads
(3) Decontamination Squads for buildings and streets
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(f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service I
(l) Municipally-owned Utilities
(2) Privately-owned Utilities
(31 Volunteer Repair Squads
See. 3: There is hereby created in each Division of Emergency
Service the position of Chief of the Division. The Chiefs of the
several. Divisions of Emergency Service shall be the following:
(a) Division of Emergency Fire Service e Chief of the
Fire Department,
(b) Division of Emergency Police Service - Chief of the
Police-Department.
(c) Division of Wardens Service - Such City Officer or
ether person as may hereafter be appointed Chief
of the Division of Emergency Wardens Service by
Resolution of the Town Council.
(d) Division of Emergency Medical Service - Such City
Officer or other person as may hereafter be appoint-
ed. Chief of the Division of Emergency Medical Service
by Resolution of the Town Council.
(e) Division of Emergency Public Works Service - Such
City Officer or other person as may hereafter b
appointed Chief of the Division of Emergency Ptibli c
forks. Service by Resolution of the Town Council.
(f) Division of Emergency Utilities Service - Such City
Officer or other person as may hereafter bg appointed
Chief of the Division of Emergency Utilities Service
by Resolution of the Town Council.
Seca 4:, Each of the emergency service organizations listed in
Section 2 of this ordinance under each division of emergency service$
other than the regular police and fire departments of the town5 shall
be strictly volunteer and separate and distinct from any regular or
permanent department of the town$ and. shall be under the complete
control= authority and command of the Chief of its Division. Yo
person shall be deemed a member of any such emergency service or-
ganization until he has been registered as such in a roster to be
kept by the Chief of the Division of Emergency Service under which
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the particular.mergency Service Organization is operating, and
until he has taken an oath that he will support and obey the Con-
stitution of the United States, the Constitution of this State,
the laws of this Nations State and Town, and that he will carry
out the duties of the .Emergency Service Organization for which he
registers to the best of his ability. Each member of each Em-
ergency Service Organization shall promptly obey all commands.
and orders of the Chief of his Emergency Division, and of the
Captain of his Emergency Service Organization. Each member shall
sign an agreement with the Town that he will not demand or claim
from the Towns compensation for services or damages, or compensa-
tion for any disability or damage that he may suffer in the per-
formance of his duties.
See. 5: Each of said Chiefs may appoint an alternate to act
in his absence, and may appoint a Captain for each of the Emergency
Service Organizations in his Division, who shall have charge and
command of such organization under his Chiefs Each of said Chiefs
* of Division may appoint as member of any Emergency Service Organiza-
tion.under him,, for which personnel has been provided by the Town
Council, any person qualified, as provided by Seca 6 of this
ordinance,, and may reject any applicant. He may provide for the
training of candidates for membership and for the further training
of members,.
Sec. -6: The Town Council shall by Resolution determine the
qualifications and provide for appointment of members to such of
said Emergency Service Organizations as it may from time to time
deem necessary to man for the safety of the gown and its inhabitants,
prescribe the duties thereof, and make such regulations for the
governing of said organizations as it may deem proper.
See. 7: There is hereby created the Los Gatos Defense council;
said Council shall be composed of the Mayor,, who shall be ex-officio
chairman of said Council, the City Clerk, who shall be ex-officio
Secretary thereof; the Chief of the Division of Emergency ;tire
Service; the Chief of the Division of Emergency Police Service; the
Chief of the Division of WardensService;, the Chief of the Division
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of Emergency Medical Service, the Chief of the Division of Emergency
Public Works Service; the Chief of the Division of Emergency Utility
Service, and the Chiefs of such other divisions of emergency
services as the Town Council may by Resolution deem necessary.
Seca 8: It shall be the duty and responsibility of the Los
Gatos Defense Council to co-ordinate the,activities within the
Town of governmental and private agencies and of individuals co-
operating in the defense effort; to stimulate public interest and
participation in defense activities; to consider and recommend to
appropriate governmental authorities plans for the public safety,
health and welfare; to plan a major disaster program, capable of
functioning in a defense emergency; and to perform such other advisory
functions as may be requested of it by officials of the town, county,
state and Federal agencies engaged in the defense effort.
The Los Gatos Defense Council shall receive, acknowledge and ap-
praise proffers of facilities, service and ideas originating within
the community and make appropriate disposition of the same; clear
information concerning defense programs and objectives among co-
operating agencies; to recommend adjustments of arrangements necess-
ary for prompt assimilation of government programs for defense to the
appropriate officer, departments or agencies; receive requests for
assistance from the State Council of Defense and from Federal de-
fense authorities and transmit these requests to the proper town
authorities or agencies; accumulate or assist in the accumulation
of information regarding local governmental, financial, economic,
industrial and human facilities and resources and transmit any such
facts, az well as other necessary information, to the State.Council
of Defense and to Federal defense agencies.
Sea. 9® The Los Gatos Defense Council shall meet at least once
in each two weeks, and each Chief of Division of Emergency Service
shall attend said meetings and shall report to, and keep said Council
informed and advised of the.organization, work and degree of efficien,
of his Divisions Said Council may advise and instruct each of said
Chiefs in the conduct and management of has Division, and said
Council shall report to the Town Council any Chief who shall prove
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himself incompetent or inefficient in the management of his div-
i sion, and the Town. Council may remove him from his position as
Chief of Division..
majority of the Defense Council shall constitute a quorum,
and a .jority vote of a quorum shall be sufficient to carry any
motion or resolution, or take any action. The Defense Council
shall elect one of its members Vice-Chairman to act in the absence
of the Mayor.
See. 10 There shall be established in the office of the
Chief of Police in the Town Hall a Control Center, and which shall
be used in times of imminent public danger as the center from which
the Emergency Services hereinafter referred to shall be directed
and coordinated.
See. 11m, The Chiefs of the several divisions.of Emergency
Service shall attend, either in person, or by their duly appointed
alternates, at the Control Center during periods of imminent public
danger to direct as far as possible the emergency activities of
their Divisions from the Control Center.
See. 12: The Control Center shall be organized by a Coordinators
which position is hereby created, The Coordinator shall be such
officer of the Town as may be nominated by the Chiefs of the Division
of Emergency Service and whose selection is approved by Resolution
of the Town Council. During periods of imminent public danger the
activities of all Divisions of Emergency Service shall be organized
in the Control Center by the Coordinator. The Coordinator shall
arrange for the privately-owned gas, electric, transportation, and
telephone utilities' and the American Red Cross to send representa-
tives to the Control Center for the purpose of assisting in the
emergency work thereof,
Sec, 1133: The Town Council shall arrange for the installation in
the Control Center of such communication facilities as may be nec-
essary to enable the several Chiefs of the Divisions of Emergency
Service to keep in touch with and superintend the work of their
respective Divisions during periods of imminent public danger and to
enable the Control Center to keep in constant touch with the County
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Control Center, or other Control Center of any larger area in which
this Town may be included, for purposes of regional co-ordination
and mutual aid, or the Control Center of any higher level of govern-
ment, and to enable the Control Center to receive the messages and
warnings of the United States Air Raid Warning System. The Co-
ordinator shall arrange for an adequate number of messengers to carry
messages to and from the Control Center in the event. of the failure
of communication facilities or other necessity.
Sec. 14® The Chief of each Division of Emergency Service shall
install in the Control Center such .maps, files, and office equipment
and shall provide such assistants as may be necessary to carry on.
efficiently the work of his Division of Emergency Service during
periods of imminent public danger, and he shall maintain an accurate
roll of the names and addresses of the members of the several Services
included within his Division, shall supervise their training and shall
designate the persons in his Division to whom equipment., and any of-
ficial insignia provided or authorized for such Services by the United
States Office of Civil Defense, shall be issued, and shall have the
authority to dismiss any volunteer member of his Division and to re-
quire the surrender of eq,4i,pment and insignia by such dismissed members.
Sect The Co-ordinator and the several Chiefs of the Division
of Emergency Service shall designate Deputies to take their places
and perform their duties in the Control Center in the event they are
absent, or otherwise unable to act,
See.- During any period of imminent public danger the Co-
ordinator shall keep all Control Centers, referred to in Section 12
hereof, fully informed concerning conditions within the city and, the
necessity for and availability of personnel and equipment for mutual
assistance. All requests to or from other communities for assistance
shall be cleared:" through such last mentioned Control Centers and shall
be complied with to the fullest extent that circumstances will permit.
Sec. 17. In.the event this Town.is included in any plan for a
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larger or higher Control Center, which plan calls for the presence
therein of a representative of any of the Divisions of Emergency
Service of this Town, the Chief of such Division may be authorized
by resolution of the Town Council to participate in such plan and
to arrange for such representation..
Sec. 18: It is the purpose to hereby provide the machinery
for the speedy and efficient adoption of rules and regulations
necessary for the preservation of property and lives of the citizens
of Los Gatos during the period of rspidly moving events that occur
because of the existent national emergency.
Sec. 13. It shall be unlawful for any person to violate any
of the rules and regulations adopted by the Chief of Police in con-
fortuity with the purposes of this Ordinance as stated in Section
18 hereof and posted as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 20: The Chief of Police is hereby given authority to
adopt rules and regulations for the purpose of safeguarding the
lives and property of the citizens of the Town of Los Gatos when
requested to do so by the following-.(a:) The 'town Council of the Town of Los Gatos;
(b) When deemed necessary by the Chief of Police;
(c) The Fire Chief of the Town of Los Gatos;
(d) The County Health. Officer;
(e) By any law enforcement agency created by law;
(f) The Army of the United States;
(g) The Navy of the United States;
(h) The Marine Corps of the United States;
(i) The Los Gatos Defense Council;
The rules and regulations adopted by the Chief of Police
shall become effective as soon as they have been posted upon each of
the bulletin boards at the two entrances to the Town Hall of the Town
of Los Gates. Any such rule or regulation shall cease to be effective
unless it shall be published within. t.en. (10) days after the posting
thereof in a weedy newspaper of general circulation printed and pub-
lished in the Town of Los Gatos.
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See. 21: Any person violating any such rule or regulation
after the sane shall have become effective as hereinbefore pro-
vided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof,
punishable by a fine of not to exceed THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($300.00) ~
or by imprisonment in the County Jail for not to exceed three. (3)
months, or both.
See. 22: FALSE PERSONATION. It shall be a misdemeanor,.
punishable by imprisonment for not to exceed three (3) months,
or by a fine of not to exceed TE E HUNDPM DOLLARS ($300.00), or both,
for any person to wear, carry or display any Emergency Service Organi-
zation identification card or insignia or otherwise deceitfully
represent himself to be connected with any such organization' unless
he is in fact a member thereof.
See. 23: This ordinance shall remain in force and effect only
during; the period of Rational Emergency, and by its own terms it
shall terminate after the President of the United States has declared
that an emergency no longer exists.
Sec. 24: This Ordinance is hereby declared an emergency
Ordinance necessary for the immediate preservation of the public
health, peace and safety, and shall be in full effect from and
after the date of its passage. The facts constituting its urgency
are:
The United States of America is at war and the Town of :cos
Gatos is liable to assault and bombing by our enemies.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council,
held on the day of , 1942, by the following votes
AYES, C 0U-xVC_-LLVM:
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x%OES , C O I CII;IE1V
ABSENT 7 COUNCIMEN:
MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
ATTEST
(SEAL)
TOW CLERK OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
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