Ord 0674-AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 328 - RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTERS, REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 461d °
ORDINANCE NO. 674
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 328 OF THE
TOWN OF LOS GATOS RELATING TO CIVIL DEFENSE AND
DISASTERS AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO. 461 OF
THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1. That Ordinance No. 461 of the Town of Los Gatos
is hereby repealed.
Section 2. That Sections 3, 5 and 6.E of Ordinance No. 328
of the Town of Los Gatos is hereby amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3. CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER COUNCIL.
Membership. The Los Gatos Civil Defense and
Disaster Council is hereby created and shall consist of
the following:
A. The Mayor, who shall be chairman.
B. The Town Manager who shall be the director
and vice-chairman.
C. The Fire Chief who shall be the assistant
director, and who, under the supervision of the
director, shall develop civil defense and disaster
plans and organize the civil defense and disaster
program of this town, and shall have such other
duties as may be assigned by the director.
D. Such deputy directors and chiefs of operating
civil defense and disaster departments, services or
divisions as are provided for by resolution pursuant
to this ordinance.
E. Such representatives of civic, business, labor,
veterans, professional or other organizations
having an official group or organization civil
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defense and disaster responsibility as may be
appointed by the Director with the advise and
consent of the Town Council.
SECTION S. DIRECTOR OF CIVIL DEFENSE AND DISASTER.
POWERS AND DUTIES. There is hereby created the
Office of Director and Assistant Director of civil defense
and disaster.
The Director, and in his absence the Assistant Director,
is hereby empowered.
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A. To request the Town Council to proclaim the existence
or threatened existence of a disaster and the termination
thereof, if the Town Council is in session, or to issue
such proclamation if the Town Council is not in session,
subject to confirmation by the Town Council at the earliest
practicable time;
B. To request the Governor to proclaim a state of
extreme emergency when in the opinion of the Director the
resources of the area or region are inadequate to cope with
the disaster;
C. To control and direct the effort of the civil defense
and disaster organization of this town for the accomplishment
of the purposes of this ordinance;
D. To direct coordination and cooperation between
divisions, services and staff of the civil defense and dis-
aster organization of this town, and to resolve questions
of authority and responsibility that may arise between them;
E. To represent the civil defense and disaster organi-
zation of this town in all dealings with public or private
agencies pertaining to civil defense and disaster.
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SECTION 6.
E. To execute all of the special powers conferred
upon him by this ordinance or by resolution adopted pur-
suant thereto, all powers conferred upon him by any
statute, agreement approved by the Town Council, or by
any other lawful authority, and in conformity with Section
38791 of the Government Code, to exercise complete authority
over the town and to exercise all police power vested in the
town by the Constitution and general laws.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be published once in the
LOS GATOS TIMES-SAIATOGA OBSERVER, a newspaper published in the
Town of Los Gatos.
INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the
Town of Los Gatos, State of California, held on the 15th day of
October ,1962.
PASSED AND ADOPTED AS AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS,
CALIFORNIA, at a continued regular meeting of theTown Council there-
of, held on the 29th day of October , 1962, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Henry C. Crall
James E. Donati
Joe Whelan
John Lincoln
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Alberto E. Merrill
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