§ 5-5. Emergency services department established; appointment of director.

The Carteret County Emergency Services Department is hereby established, and shall serve as the coordinating agency for all activity in connection with emergency management within Carteret County. The department shall be the agency through which the Carteret County Board of Commissioners exercises the authority and discharges the responsibilities vested in it during any all-hazards incident and states of emergency. The department shall also be the coordinating agency for all activity connected with emergency management, including activities within municipalities.

The Carteret County Manager shall appoint a Director of the Carteret County Emergency Services Department who shall be a person well versed and trained in planning operations involving the activities of many different agencies which will operate to protect the public health, safety and welfare to any all-hazards incident.

The director shall designate and appoint deputy directors to assume the duties of the director during an emergency in the event of his/her absence or inability to fulfill these duties.

(Ord. of 7-21-14(1))