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its availability for inspection at the Administrator's office shall be conspicuously posted at the front of the City Center or other headquarters of the City or at such other places in the affected area as the Council shall designate in the resolution. By like resolution, the Board may modify or rescind any such regulation. C. The City Council may rescind any such regulation by resolution at any time. If not sooner rescinded, every such regulation shall expire at the end of 30 days after its effective date or at the end of the emergency to which it relates, whichever comes first. Any resolution, rule, or regulation inconsistent with an emergency regulation promulgated by the Council shall be suspended during the period of time and to the extent such conflict exists. During a declared emergency, the City is, notwithstanding any statutory or charter provision to the contrary, empowered, through its governing body acting within or without the corporate limits of the City, to enter into contracts or incur obligations necessary to combat such disaster by protecting the health and safety of persons and property and providing emergency assistance to the victims of such disaster. The City may exercise such powers in the light of the exigencies of the disaster without compliance with the time - consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law pertaining to. the performance of public work, entering rental equipment agreements, purchase of supplies and materials, limitations upon tax levies, and the appropriation and expenditure of public funds including, but not limited to, publication of resolutions, publication of call for bids, provisions of personnel laws and rules, provisions relating to low bids, and requirement for budgets. 210.070. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT — A GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTION. All functions thereunder and all other activities relating to emergency management are hereby declared to be governmental functions. The provisions of this section shall not affect the right of any person to receive benefits to which he would otherwise be entitled under this resolution or under the worker's compensation law or under any pension law, nor the right of any such person to receive any benefits or compensation under any act of Congress. 210.080. PARTICIPATION IN LABOR DISPUTE OR POLITICS. The emergency management organization shall not participate in any form of political activity, nor shall it be employed directly or indirectly for political purposes, nor shall it be employed in a labor dispute. Page 48