They hope they never need it, but South Jacksonville trustees were expected Tuesday to approve an emergency management ordinance giving the village president authorization to declare a local state of emergency.
Trustees were scheduled to meet in special session.
A draft of the ordinance defines an emergency as a riot or unlawful assembly characterized by the use of force or violence or the threat of the use of force by three or more people acting together; or any natural disaster, epidemic or man-made calamity — or the threat of any of those events — in the village.
Under the ordinance, after a local state of emergency is declared, the village president may order a general curfew applicable to the village’s geographical boundaries.
Curfews have been put place in recent days in several cities in which rioting and looting have broken out during protests and unrest following the police-custody death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The South Jacksonville ordinance also would give the village president authority to make several executive orders during a state of emergency, including any deemed reasonably necessary to respond to the emergency, approving new spending by the village if the state of emergency extends beyond the current fiscal year, and ordering the closing of all retail stores and s halt to the sale of liquor.
If a declaration is made under the ordinance, it would be effective for up to 30 days or until the adjournment of the next regular or special meeting of village trustees.
Village President Harry Jennings said the ordinance is a precautionary measure based on a model ordinance from the Illinois Municipal League.
“It’s an ordinance for emergency management that we hope we never have to use, and it just sits there as another tool in the toolbox,” Jennings said.
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