The council or the county executive may approve such a contract as they or he might otherwise approve under the terms of this chapter and the county charter without compliance with the procedures contained in this chapter if the immediate approval of the contract is necessitated by any emergency caused by fire, flood, explosion, storm, earthquake, epidemic, riot, or insurrection, or for the immediate preservation of order or of public health or public property, or for the restoration to a condition of usefulness of any public property the usefulness of which has been temporarily destroyed, lost, or diminished, or for the relief of a stricken community overtaken by a calamity, or to perform any mandatory activity required by any law upon a finding of the existence of such emergency and entry thereof into the records of the authority having the power to approve such contract. (Added by Ord. 80-110 § 2, Jan. 20, 1981; Amended by Ord. 86-003 § 25, Feb. 12, 1986; Amended by Amended Ord. 23-074 § 18, Sept. 13, 2023, Eff date Oct. 1, 2023).