§ 6.01. POLICY AND PURPOSE.

(1)

Emergency Management shall mean the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions to minimize and repair injury and damage resulting from disaster caused by enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or by fire, flood or other natural causes.

(2)

By reason of the increasing possibility of disasters or unprecedented destructiveness and to insure that preparation will be adequate to cope with such disasters and to provide for the common defense, to protect the public peace, and to preserve the lives and property of the people, it is hereby declared necessary:

(a)

To establish a local emergency management committee. (Am. Ord. #15-96)

(b)

To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during emergencies.

(c)

To provide for the rendering of cooperation and mutual aid between the Village and other political subdivisions.

(3)

It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the Village that all emergency management functions of the Village be coordinated to the maximum extent applicable with existing services and facilities of this Village and with the comparable functions of the Federal, State and County governments and other political subdivisions, and the various private agencies to the end that most effective preparation and use may be made of manpower, resources and facilities for dealing with any disasters that occur.