§ 23-21. Authorized.

Whenever, in the judgment of the mayor or in the event of his inability to act, the president of the city council, determines that an emergency exists as a result of mob action or other civil disobedience causing danger of injury to or damages to persons or property, he shall have power to impose by proclamation any or all of the following regulations necessary to preserve the peace and order of the city, within the Merriam standard metropolitan statistical area:

(1)

A curfew upon all or any portion of the city thereby requiring all persons in such designated curfew areas to forthwith remove themselves, or their motor vehicles, from the public streets, alleys, public parking lots, parks or other public places; provided, that physicians, nurses and ambulance operators performing medical services, utility personnel maintaining essential public services, firefighters and city-authorized or requested law enforcement officers and personnel may be exempted from such curfew.

(2)

The closing of any business establishments anywhere within the city for the period of the emergency, such businesses to include, but not be limited to, those selling intoxicating liquors, cereal malt beverages, gasoline or firearms.

(3)

The closing of any public street, thoroughfare or vehicle parking areas to motor vehicles and pedestrian traffic.

(4)

The calling upon regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies and organizations within or without the city to assist in preserving and keeping the peace within the city. Any and all of the regular and auxiliary law enforcement agencies, organizations and their individual officers shall have the full power and authority to make arrests and to act on behalf of the city in order to enforce the provisions provided for herein and any and all other city ordinances that might be violated as a result of any mob action or other civil disobedience.

(Code 1967, § 6-16)

State law reference

Local disaster emergencies, K.S.A. 48-932 .