"The purpose of the law is to permit government agencies to use resources available--such as that generator in the hardware store, whose owner has evacuated and can't be reached for permission. This happened repeatedly in Gulfport and Biloxi--needed resources in intact retail establishments couldn't be legally used because the owners "just weren't there"--so the cops, firefighters, and other emergency workers broke in an used them anyway."
Yeah...I can recognize the intent and it all sounds so reasonable and cuddly.
Not having read the actual ordinance in question, I should simply defer to all that reasonableness.
Unless it actually prohibits taking personal generators as I described or even one's home for some perceived good/better use is problematical.
Along with any potential gun seizures. Take the guns, taking the property becomes a lot easier.
'Course, there are always great justifications and noble causes whenever governments make power grabs. Usually it's the Left doing this kind of thing, using all sorts of causes as levers, the "war on poverty, the "environment," you name it. But conservatives are susceptible as well. In any case, we need underlying guiding principles to avoid this way of thinking. Like the Constitution, I guess.