HomeMy WebLinkAbout080 - 07/17/2007 - AMENDING SECTION 2-671 OF THE CITY CODE PERTAINING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS ORDINANCE NO. 080, 2007
OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
AMENDING SECTION 2-671 OF THE CODE OF THE CITY OF FORT COLLINS
PERTAINING TO EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROVISIONS
WHEREAS,the Office of Emergency Management was created by Ordinance No.40, 1990;
and
WHEREAS, Section 2-671 of the City Code requires any emergency ordinance passed
pursuant to this Section to be filed with the County Clerk and the State Division of Disaster
Emergency Services; and
WHEREAS, the State Division of Disaster Emergency Services has been renamed; and
WHEREAS, this amendment uses a general term for the State agency so that the Code
section need not be amended each time the agency is reorganized, re-named or otherwise changes.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FORT
COLLINS that Section 2-671(a)(1)of the Code of the City of Fort Collins is hereby amended to read
as follows:
Sec. 2-671. Powers and duties of the director and assistant director of the
Office of Emergency Management.
(a) The director is hereby empowered:
(1) To proclaim the existence or threatened existence of a local
emergency. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the
director,it shall not be continued or renewed for a period in excess of
seven(7)days,except by or with the consent of the City Council.Any
such proclamation shall be given prompt and general publicity and
shall be filed promptly with the City Clerk or the Larimer County
Clerk and Recorder and with the State agency responsible for
emergency management.
Introduced, considered favorably on first reading, and ordered published this 19th day of
June, A.D. 2007, and to be presented for final passage on the 1 y of July, A.D. 2007.
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Passed and adopted on final reading on the 17th day of y, .D. 2007.
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