HomeMy WebLinkAbout09/24/04AN ORDER OF THE CZ-P/OF FORT PIERCE POITCE CHIEF
ORbERIN6 CERTAIN EMER6ENCY MEASURES IN
THE C"['TY OF FORT PIERCE
(HURI~CANE 3EANNE)
WHEREAS, THE Police Chief for the City of Fort Pierce has made the following determinations:
Pursuant to Section 870.047, Florida Statutes, the Police Chief has the power to declare
a state of local emergency within the City of Fort Pierce to provide for the health and safety of persons
and property and to exercise the emergency powers conferred in Sections 870.04! - 870.047, Florida
Statutes.
2. The National Hurricane Center has identified Hurricane ~Teanne as a Category 2
hurricane and has issued Hurricane Warnings for the east coast of Florida, including St. Lucie County.
3. The presence of Hurricane ~Teanne has placed the City of Fort Pierce in a state of
emergency, exposing the citizens thereof to the threat of imminent violence and to danger to life and
property.
4. On September~_~', 2004, at /~ ~.m., the Fort Pierce Police Chief declared a state
of local emergency in the City of Fort Pierce (copy attached).
5. ]~n order to respond to such emergency, upon this declaration, the Police Chief is
authorized to initiate and take such actions authorized by Sections 870.041 - 870.047, Florida Statutes.
6. As a result of the effects of Hurricane ~Teanne, there is a clear and present
danger of civil disorder in the City of Fort Pierce and widespread disobedience of the law and
it is necessary to order certain emergency measures as hereinafter defined in order to
suppress the threat to public peace which now exists and to prevent substantial injury to
persons or property.
NOW, THEREFORE, I am issuing the following order:
measures are effective in the City of Fort Pierce:
(A) The sole or distribution of any alcoholic beverage, with or without the
payment or a consideration therefor is prohibited.
{B) The possession on any person in a public place of any portable container
containing any alcoholic beverage is prohibited.
(C} All places of public assemblage are closed except designated shelters.
2. This Order shall remain in effect for seventy-two (77) hours unless terminated,
modified or extended. This Order shall automatically terminate upon a declaration terminating
the state of local emergency or upon further directive of the Police Chief or the Fort Pierce
City Commission. This Order may be modified at any time by subsequent Orders of the Police
Chief or the Fort Pierce City Commission. This Order may be extended in not more than
seventy-two (77) hour increments by subsequent orders issued by the Police Chief with the
concurrence of the Fort Pierce City Commission by duly enacted ordinance or resolution in
regular or special session.
3. This Order shall, as promptly as practicable, be filed in the office of the City
Clerk and delivered to the appropriate news media for publication and radio and television
broadcast thereof.
Signed this,Z~day of September, 2004, at /J :~o /~__.m.
Eugene Savage,
City of Fort Pierce
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