§ 8-1. Policy and purpose.

(a)

Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake or other natural causes, and in order to insure that preparations of the city will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the city, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:

(1)

To establish a local civil defense agency.

(2)

To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during civil defense emergencies.

(3)

To provide for the rendering of mutual aid between the city and other political subdivisions of the state and of other states with respect to the carrying out of civil defense functions.

(b)

It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the city that all civil defense functions of the city shall be coordinated to the maximum extent practicable with the comparable functions of the federal government, of the state, and of other states and localities, and of private agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective preparations and use may be made of the nation's manpower, resources and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur. (Code 1971, § 9-1)

State law reference

Similar provisions, M.S. § 12.02.