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 Ascension Parish
 Code of Ordinances
 Chapter 8. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

  § 8-6. Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness—Created.  

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  • (a)

    The Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness is hereby created.

    (b)

    The Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness shall have a director who shall be appointed by the parish president and the director shall be commissioned by the director of the state office of emergency preparedness. The parish director thus appointed and commissioned shall serve at the pleasure of the parish president.

    (c)

    Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the parish president from serving as the director.

    (d)

    The director of the Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness shall have direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of the Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness subject to the direction and control of the parish president under the general direction and control of the governor and the state office of emergency preparedness.

    (e)

    The director may appoint an assistant director to administer the provisions of this chapter. The assistant director shall have and may exercise such powers and duties of the director related thereto as the director shall delegate to him.

    (f)

    The parish president may authorize the director of the Ascension Parish Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness to employ such professional, technical, clerical, stenographic, and other personnel and he shall fix their compensation and may make expenditures from available funds appropriated or authorized by the state for purposes of emergency preparedness as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter. The director and the assistant director, if an assistant director is appointed, shall be provided with necessary and appropriate office space, furniture, equipment, supplies, stationery, and printing. The necessary mileage, office expenses, salaries of personnel, postage, telephone, and expressage shall be chargeable to any funds available for emergency preparedness.

(Ord. of 2-3-94; Ord. of 5-5-05)