An emergency measure ordinance of the City of Mesquite, Texas, authorized pursuant to Mesquite City Charter, Article IV, Section 18 and Section 19; declaring a Local State of Disaster for Public Health Emergency related to COVID-19; continuing the Mayor’s Declaration of Local Disaster issued on March 23, 2020; confirming the activation of the City’s emergency management plans; adopting and approving certain rules and orders to protect the health and safety of persons in the City and to help abate the public health emergency; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to make certain decisions and to take necessary actions to meet City objectives to have City government remain functional while providing essential governmental services during this rapidly changing environment created by the public health emergency; making various findings and provisions related to the subject; making it an offense to fail to comply with a state, local, or interjurisdictional emergency management plan or any rule, order or ordinance adopted under the plan and providing a penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or confinement in jail for a term that does not exceed 180 days for each offense; providing for publication; providing a repealing clause; providing a conflicts resolution clause; providing a severability clause; declaring an effective date; and declaring an expiration date. ADJOURNMENT
An emergency measure ordinance of the City of Mesquite, Texas, authorized pursuant to Mesquite City Charter, Article IV, Section 18 and Section 19; declaring a Local State of Disaster for Public Health Emergency related to COVID-19; continuing the Mayor’s Declaration of Local Disaster issued on March 23, 2020; confirming the activation of the City’s emergency management plans; adopting and approving certain rules and orders to protect the health and safety of persons in the City and to help abate the public health emergency; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to make certain decisions and to take necessary actions to meet City objectives to have City government remain functional while providing essential governmental services during this rapidly changing environment created by the public health emergency; making various findings and provisions related to the subject; making it an offense to fail to comply with a state, local, or interjurisdictional emergency management plan or any rule, order or ordinance adopted under the plan and providing a penalty in an amount not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) or confinement in jail for a term that does not exceed 180 days for each offense; providing for publication; providing a repealing clause; providing a conflicts resolution clause; providing a severability clause; declaring an effective date; and declaring an expiration date. ADJOURNMENT