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HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1967-017~`4k ~ ~ * ~! 4GxY' jj3 .$ `~ i~ ,, ~'~,~ `w `:q ~ ~ COUNTY OF Hill~7ilII - STlITP OF HA~.~hIII ,~ .<< `e ~.;% "'~~ ORDIAI;iI~iCF id0. _17 AN ORDIN1ilQCE CREATID?G COUNTY CIVIL DEFEidSh AGENCY AND PRESCRIBING P0~.7ERS, DUTIES ilND FUNCTIONS. BE IT ORDAINED BY 'PI-IL; ?OARD OF :~'iJi~ERVISORS OF ^lI~ COUNTY OF HA}~JATI: SECTION 1. Policy and purposes. Because of the possibility of disasters or emergencies of great destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, tidal wave, volcanic eruption, earthquake, or other natural causes, and in order to insure that preparations of this County will be adequate to deal with such disasters or emergencies, to make adequate provision against shortages of food supplies and essential commodities, to maintain the strength, resources and economic life of the community and provide for prompt and effective action, to promote the national defense and civil dcf-ense :in cooperation with the State and Federal governments and to protect the public health, safety and welfare, the provisions of this ordinance are hereby found and declared to be necessary. SECTION 2, County Civil llefense Agency. There is hereby created a County Civil Defense Agency which sha:Ll perform civil defense functions within the County of Hawaii, +snd in addition, shall conduct such functions outside the County as may be required pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 359, Revised Laws of Hawaii 1955, as amended (Civil Defense Emergency Act), The head of the County Civil Defense Agency shall be a deputy director who shall be appointed by the director of the State Civil Defense Agency with the approval of the Board of Supervisors of the County of Hawaii and may be removed by the state director. A fulltime civil defense administrator shall be the chief administrative assistant to the deputy director and shall, in the absence of the deputy director or within the delegated scope of authority, have all the duties and responsibilities of the deputy director, The deputy director shall appoint the civil defense administrator in accordance with the merit system and his appointment shall be approved by the state director. SECTION 3. Duties of the deputy director. The deputy director shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the Civil Defense Agency in the County, It shall be the duty of the deputy director to coordinatE: the activities of all organizations for civil defense within the County, public or private, and shall maintain liaison ~~ith and cooperate to the fullest extent with the state director to insurE: that the plans and programs of the County with re:;pect to relief and general welfare of the people in the event of a disaster or emergency are fully integrated with the plans and programs of the State and Federal governments. Such plans and programs shall be prepared by the deputy director and transmittecl to the Board of Supervisors for approval and shall be revieored by the deputy director and resubmitted to the Board of Supervisors for approval before the 31st day of i'.4arch of each year thereafter. SECTION 4. Utilization of existing government services. All county departments, agencies and officers shall cooperate with and extend their services, materials and facilities to the County Civil Defense Agency as may be requested by the deputy director. Ont. ~w ~ ~ ...... !~W Kw 1t. A lla ~...r,-.....,..,,, e.~.~ ___ __ __ ..