Sec. 14-2. - Assignment of shelter managers to shelter areas; control of areas; powers; chain of command.

Shelter managers shall be assigned to specific shelter areas by the city defense civil preparedness agency and shall be in complete charge of such specified shelter areas subject to orders of the civil preparedness director and/or deputy director of civil preparedness when communication is possible. In the absence of such communication, the shelter manager of an assigned shelter area shall possess all the powers and duties of the civil preparedness director of the city. Shelter managers who find themselves in a shelter not specifically assigned to them shall act as deputy shelter managers to the assigned shelter manager. In the absence of the assigned shelter manager, any shelter manager present shall assume the duties of the assigned shelter manager.

(Code 1971, § 6-2)