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ORDINANCE NO. <br />ORDINANCE CREATING AND ESTABLISHING A CIVIL <br />DEFENSE AGENCY IN BATESVILLE, ARKANSAS; <br />PROVIDING FOR A DIRECTOR THEREOF; <br />GRANTING CERTAIN POWERS, <br />PRESCRIBING THE DUTIES <br />THEREOF; AND FOR <br />OTHER PURPOSES <br />BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BATESVILLE, <br />ARKANSAS: <br />SECTION 1. POLICY AND PURPOSE <br />(a) Because of the existing and increasing possibility <br />of the occurence of disasters of unprecedented size and des- <br />tructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage, or other <br />hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake, or other nat- <br />ural causes, and in order to insure that preparations of this <br />City will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally <br />to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace; <br />health, and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of <br />the people of this City, it is hereby found and declared to be <br />necessary: (1) to create a City Civil Defense Agency; (2) to <br />provide for the rendering of mutual aid to other cities within <br />the State of Arkansas, and those adjoining states, and to co- <br />operate with the State Government with respect to carrying out <br />Civil Defense functions. <br />(b) It is further declared to be the purpose of this <br />Ordinance and the policy of this City that all Civil Defense <br />functions of this City be coordinated to the maximum extent with <br />the comparable functions of the State Government including its <br />various departments and agencies, of other cities and localities, <br />and of private agencies of every type,,to the end that the most <br />effective preparation and use may be made of this city's man- <br />power, resources, and facilities for dealing with any disaster <br />that may occur. <br />(c) It is further declared to be the purpose of this <br />