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Whenever, in the judgment of the mayor or, in the event of his or her inability to act, the vice-chairman of the Governing Body, it is determined that an emergency exists, as a result of mob action, civil disobedience, or disaster within the corporate limits of the City of Olathe, Kansas, causing danger of injury to or damage to persons or property, he or she shall have the power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the City:

A. To impose a curfew upon all or any portion of the City thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves, and/or their motor vehicles, from the public streets, alleys, public parking lots, parks or other public places; provided however, that physicians, nurses and ambulance operators preforming medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firemen and City authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempted from such curfew;

B. To order the closing of any business establishment anywhere within the City for the period of the emergency, such businesses to include, but not be limited to, those selling intoxicating liquors, cereal malt beverages, or gasoline;

C. To designate any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking area closed to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic;

D. To call upon regular, reserve and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within the City, including the sheriff’s department under provisions of mutual emergency police protection compact to assist in preserving and keeping the peace within the City. To request assistance from all law enforcement and related agencies outside the City;

E. That any and all of the regular, reserve and auxiliary law enforcement agencies, organizations and their individual officers shall have the full power and authority to make arrests and to act on behalf of the City in order to enforce the provisions provided for herein and any and all other City ordinances that might be violated as a result of any mob action or other civil disobedience;

F. The mayor is hereby authorized to enter into a mutual emergency police protection compact with any and all governing bodies of Johnson County, Kansas, and any other duly authorized governing body within the Kansas City standard metropolitan area. (Ord. 14-42 § 12, 2014; Ord. 67-C § 1, 1967.)