Alpine County Municipal Code Art. V Director of Emergency Services

The county sheriff or designee(s) shall be the director of emergency services. (Ord. 719 § 5.1, 2016)

The line of succession for the director of emergency services, in the absence of the county sheriff or designee(s), or inability to act, shall automatically be succeeded by the following officials in the order named:

A. County fire chief;

B. County executive officer (CEO);

C. Public health officer. (Ord. 758, 2025; Ord. 719 § 5.2, 2016)

The director of emergency services shall have the following powers and duties:

A. To make key appointments, subject to the approval of the board of supervisors, within the emergency management organization;

B. Request the board of supervisors to proclaim the existence of a local emergency if said board is in session, or to issue such proclamation if said board is not in session. Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by the director of emergency services, the board of supervisors shall take action to ratify the proclamation within seven days thereafter or the proclamation shall have no further force or effect;

C. During the existence of state of war emergency or the proclaimed existence of a state of emergency or a local emergency affecting Alpine County or the Alpine County operational area to:

1. Control and direct the activities of the Alpine County emergency management organization;

2. Use all county resources for the preservation of life and property and to reduce the effects of emergency;

3. Resolve questions of authority and responsibility that may arise in emergency operations;

4. Obtain vital supplies, equipment and other resources needed for the preservation of life and property by either binding the county for the fair value thereof or by commandeering same;

5. To delegate to elected and appointed officials of the county of Alpine such duties and authorities as he deems necessary;

6. To make and issue rules and regulations on matters reasonably related to the protection of life and property as affected by any conditions proclaimed as provided herein;

7. To require emergency services of any county officer or employee, and to command the aid of as many citizens of the county of Alpine as the director deems necessary in the execution of his/her duties;

8. To exercise complete authority over the county and to exercise all police power vested in the county by the Constitution and general laws;

9. In addition to the powers granted herein, the director of emergency services shall have such powers incidental to the performance of said duties as shall be necessary to allow for the carrying out of the emergency plan of the county of Alpine, it being the intent that the enumerated powers herein are not intended to be limitations upon the director’s powers. (Ord. 719 § 5.3, 2016)