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15` Reading: Published: 2 "tl Reading: Effective: To County Recorder Council Member moved for adoption.of the following ordinance: CITY OF LINO LAKES ORDINANCE NO. 11 -07 AMENDING THE CITY CODE BY REPEALING THE CURRENT CHAPTER 209 AND ADDING A NEW CHAPTER 209 ENTITLED EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT The City Council of the City of Lino Lakes, Anoka County, Minnesota does ordain: Section 1. That Chapter 209 of the Lino Lakes Code of Ordinances be and hereby is repealed. Section 2. That the Lino Lakes Code of Ordinances be amended by adding thereto a new Chapter 209 to read as follows: 209. EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT 209.01 POLICY AND PURPOSE Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage, or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake or other natural causes, and in order to insure that preparations of this city will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally, to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health, and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of this city, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary: (1) To establish a local organization for civil defense; (2) To provide for the exercise of necessary powers during civil defense emergencies; (3) To provide for the rendering of mutual aid between this city and other political subdivisions of this state and of other states with respect to the carrying out of civil functions. It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the city that all civil defense functions of this city be coordinated to the maximum extent practicable with the comparable functions of the Federal govemment, of this state and of the states 28 —36—