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consistent with the applicable federal or state law or regulation, respecting: the conduct of <br />persons and the use of property during emergencies; the repair, maintenance, and <br />safeguarding of essential public services, emergency health, fire, and safety regulation, drills, <br />or practice periods required for preliminary training, and all other matters which are required <br />to protect public safety, health, and welfare in declared emergencies. <br />B. Every resolution of emergency regulations shall be in writing: <br />shall be dated; shall refer to the particular emergency to which it pertains, if so limited, and <br />shall be filed in the Office of the City Administrator, which copy shall be kept posted and <br />available for public inspection during business hours. Notice of the existence of such <br />regulation and its availability for inspection at the Administrator's Office shall be <br />conspicuously posted at the front of the city hall or other headquarters of the City or at such <br />other places in the affected ure as the Council shall designate in the resolution. By like <br />resolution, the Council may modify or rescind any such regulation. <br />C. The City Council may rescind any such regulation by <br />resolution at any time. If not sooner rescinded, every such regulation shall expire at the end <br />of 30 days after its effective date or at the end of the emergency to which it relates, <br />whichever comes first. Any resolution, rule or regulation inconsistent with an emergency <br />regulation promulgated by the Council shall be suspended during the period of time and to <br />the extent such conflict exists. <br />D. During a declared emergency, the director is, notwithstanding <br />any statutory or charter provision on the contrary, empowered through its governing body <br />acting within or without the corporate limits of the City, to enter into contracts and incur <br />obligations necessary to combat such disaster by protecting the health and safety of persons <br />and property and providing emergency assistance to the victims of such disaster. The director <br />may exercise such powers in the light of the exigencies of the disaster without compliance <br />with the time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed by law pertaining to the <br />performance of public work, entering rental equipment agreements, purchase of supplies and <br />materials, limitations upon tax levies, and the appropriation and expenditure of public funds <br />including, but not limited to, publication of resolutions, publication of call for bids, <br />provisions of personnel laws and rules, provisions relating to low bids, and requirements for <br />budgets. <br />Subd. 7. Emergency Management - A Governmental Function. <br />A. All functions thereunder and all other activities relating to <br />emergency management are hereby declared to be governmental functions. The City and <br />(except for willful misconduct) its officers, agents or employees, when engaged in emergency <br />services activities shall not be liable for damage to person or property. The provisions of this <br />section shall not affect the right of any person to receive benefits to which he would <br />othenvise be entitled under this resolution or under the worker's compensation law, or under <br />Page 5 of 6 <br />i