Legislation:SBR/O002-013/Original text

Enactment clause, short and long title

Be it permitted by the Grand Forum of All Citizens, for Local Authorities to bring into effect as follows—

Local Ordinance 002-013, Emergency Local Ordinance 2020

A Local Ordinance to establish a mechanism for governmental response to emergency situations.

Chapter I: On the Declaration of a State of Emergency

Section A: Declaration

1. The Local Executive may ask the Minor Council to declare a State of Emergency for Our Local Community.
2. A State of Emergency may only be declared in the event of:
   1. A natural disaster;
   2. A health epidemic;
   3. Widespread violence;
   4. War; or
   5. Any other threat to the people or Our Serene Republic.
3. Any such declaration must include a fixed time limit, not exceeding six Calendar Months, after which any State of Emergency is to end. This does not preclude a new State of Emergency being declared.

Chapter II: On the Measures Able to be Taken

Section A: When measures may be taken

1. In this Chapter, ‘State of Emergency’ may mean a national State of Emergency as declared under R001-012, or a State of Emergency for Our Local Community.

Section B: On the Emergency Fund

1. The Local Authorities may spend from the Emergency Fund, to manage the Emergency.

Section C: Measures for provision of essential services

1. Essential services are defined here as:
   1. Food;
   2. Water;
   3. Power;
   4. Information relevant to safety and security;
   5. Medicines;
   6. Anything that may prove necessary to protect against the relevant threat.
2. The Local Authority may, for the duration of a State of Emergency, assume control over the supply of essential services, for the purpose of:
   1. Protecting the supply against hoarding;
   2. Protecting consumers against price gouging; or
   3. Rationing supply.
3. The Local Authority may subsidise producers in order to ensure supply.

Section D: Measures for protection of the people

1. The Local Authority may, for the duration of a State of Emergency, control the movement of the people on the following ways:
   1. Curfew;
   2. Quarantine;
   3. Mandatory self-isolation;
   4. Closing external borders; or
   5. Closing borders between Our Local Community and other Local Communities.