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§ 2-734 — Created, composition

Code of the City of Richmond, Virginia, 2026 (Recodification codified through Ordinance No. 2025-207, adopted October 14, 2025) · Richmond, Va., City Code § 2-734

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Sec. 2-734. - Created, composition.

There shall be a Department of Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response, which shall be headed by the Director of Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response and shall consist of such officers and employees organized into such units as may be provided by ordinance or by the orders of the Director of Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response consistent with this division. The Department of Emergency Communications, Preparedness, and Response shall be designated as the public safety answering point (PSAP) for the E-911 telephone system and is charged with the appropriate routing of those E-911 calls received. The Department shall also be responsible for the planning for, operation, maintenance and coordination of all emergency communications systems, as defined in Section 2-735(a), for the City, the control and management of all communications towers or sites owned or controlled by the City, and all functions of the City's radio shop, including, but not necessarily limited to, the installation in vehicles of equipment as defined in Section 2-735(a).

(Code 2004, § 2-820; Code 2015, § 2-728; Code 2020, § 2-728; Ord. No. 2014-59-97, § 2, 5-27-2014; Ord. No. 2017-123, § 1, 7-24-2017; Ord. No. 2022-289, § 3, 11-14-2022)