Declaration of local emergency.

Riverside Municipal Code § 9.20.060

in effect

9.20.060 - Declaration of local emergency. A local emergency may be declared upon such situation of extreme peril that immediately or that such likelihood that extreme peril is imminently likely to threaten lives and property; and by reason of its magnitude is or is likely to become beyond the control of the normal services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the regularly constituted branches and departments of the City government. The Director of Emergency Services may request of the City Council to proclaim the existence of a "local emergency" if the City Council is in session, or to issue such proclamation if the City Council is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the Director, the City Council shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter, or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect. The City Council shall review, at least every 30 days until such local emergency is terminated, the need for continuing the local emergency and shall proclaim the termination of such local emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant. (Ord. 7115 § 1, 2011; Ord. 6354 § 1, 1997; Ord. 3948 § 1 (part), 1972)

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