Title 38, Chapter 3, Section 54
( 38-3-54)
Whenever, due to an emergency or disaster resulting from manmade or
natural causes or enemy attack, it becomes imprudent, inexpedient,
or impossible to conduct the affairs of local government at the
regular or usual place or places thereof, the governing body of each
political subdivision, including but not limited to each and every
city, county, and municipality of the state, may meet at any place
within or outside the territorial limits of the political
subdivision on the call of the presiding officer or any two members
of the governing body and shall proceed to establish and designate
by ordinance, resolution, or other manner alternate or substitute
sites or places as the emergency temporary location or locations of
government where all or any part of the public business may be
transacted and conducted during the emergency or disaster situation.
The sites or places may be within or outside the territorial limits
of the political subdivision and may be within or outside this
state. During the period when the public business is being conducted
at the emergency temporary location or locations, the governing body
and other officers of a political subdivision of this state shall
have and possess and shall exercise at the location or locations all
of the executive, legislative, and judicial powers and functions
conferred upon such body and officers by or under the laws of this
state. The powers and functions may be exercised in the light of the
exigencies of the emergency situation without regard to or
compliance with time-consuming procedures and formalities prescribed
by law and pertaining thereto, and all acts of the body and officers
shall be as valid and binding as if performed within the territorial
limits of their political subdivision. |