Sec. 737.053. The legislative authority of a municipal | 8 |
corporation may establish, by ordinance, a community emergency | 9 |
response team within the public safety department of the municipal | 10 |
corporation, and may provide for the regulation of community | 11 |
emergency response team members. The director of public safety | 12 |
shall be the executive head of the community emergency response | 13 |
team, shall make all appointments and removals of team members, | 14 |
subject to any general rules prescribed by the legislative | 15 |
authority by ordinance, and shall prescribe rules for the | 16 |
organization, training, administration, control, and conduct of | 17 |
the community emergency response team. Members of the community | 18 |
emergency response team shall not be in the classified service of | 19 |
the municipal corporation and shall not be eligible for membership | 20 |
in the public employees retirement system. | 21 |
A "community emergency response team" is a group of | 22 |
volunteers who educates persons in the municipal corporation about | 23 |
disaster preparedness for hazards that may impact the community | 24 |
and who trains those persons in basic disaster response skills, | 25 |
such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, | 26 |
and disaster medical operations. Members of the community | 27 |
emergency response team may assist first responders in accordance | 28 |
with the policies developed by the director of public safety. | 29 |