Los Angeles County Municipal Code Part 6 Miscellaneous Provisions

County departments, commissions, agencies, boards, districts, officers, and employees shall have emergency duties, responsibilities, and assignments for war and nonwar emergencies as prescribed in the Los Angeles Operational Area Emergency Plan.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

Wherever in this chapter, or by other law, duties or authority for emergency management are designated to the Chief Executive Officer or the Sheriff, both shall designate a chain of succession in the event either officer is not available to immediately act in an emergency and shall file such designation with the executive officer-clerk of the Board. If an emergency occurs in the absence of the principal, the first-level individual on such lists that can be contacted and is able to act shall have the full responsibility and authority to act for the principal officer until relieved by the principal or a person with higher priority on such list.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

Volunteers who perform service in the County emergency organization or for the operational area in accordance with provisions of this chapter shall so serve without compensation. Volunteers performing duties on behalf of the County shall be registered with the Emergency Management Council as "disaster service workers" in order to be eligible for worker's compensation benefits, as provided for starting with section 3201 of Part 1 of Division 4 of the State Labor Code.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

The head of each County department and County District shall ensure that the appropriate level of SEMS training is conducted:

For managerial personnel relative to the emergency operations responsibilities of the respective County department and the County emergency organization;

For Emergency Operations Center team members, initially upon such assignment and, thereafter as (refresher training), at least annually and as required to maintain essential skills; and

For all "field" responders.

Training may be accomplished within the respective department, collectively with other County departments, or by attendance at appropriate training institutions.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

As consideration for the furnishing of emergency services by any Los Angeles County District, as provided in County and operational area emergency plans, when the emergency period or potential emergency does not arise from conditions the response to which is the responsibility of the County District, the services, supplies, and equipment of every department, agency, board, commission, officer, and employee of the County, and of every other County District, shall be available to said County District during an emergency or threatened emergency arising from conditions within the purview of said County District.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

Any expenditures made in connection with emergency activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants of and property in the County.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)

It is a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed six months, or both, for any person, during an emergency, to:

A.

Willfully obstruct, hinder, or delay any member of the County emergency organization in the enforcement of any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter, or in the performance of any responsibility or duty authorized or imposed by virtue of this chapter;

B.

Do any act forbidden by any lawful rule or regulation issued pursuant to this chapter, if such act is of such a nature as to give or be likely to give assistance to the enemy or to imperil the lives or property of inhabitants of the County, or to prevent, hinder, or delay the defense or protection thereof; and

C.

Wear, carry, or display, without authority, any means of identification specified by the emergency agency of the State, the County, a County District, or any city in the County.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, it shall be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 or by imprisonment for a period not to exceed six months, or both, for any person to violate any curfew or other emergency order or regulation established by any lawful rule, regulation, order, or directive issued pursuant to this chapter. It shall be an affirmative defense to a violation of a curfew order that, at the time of such violation, a person was: (1) traveling to or from work or school, (2) experiencing homelessness and without access to a viable shelter, or (3) seeking medical treatment.

(Ord. 2020-0015U § 1, 2020.)