Los Angeles County Municipal Code Ch. 11 Emergency Services
Los Angeles County Municipal Code · 2026-09 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · Los Angeles County
Cite as: Los Angeles County Municipal Code Chapter 11 · Text as of 2026-10-04
11.01 - Purpose of chapter provisions.¶
To assure cooperation with the Los Angeles County disaster relief authority and the Los Angeles County operational area organization, both of which have been created by Los Angeles County Ordinance 5582, entitled "Disaster and Civil Defense Ordinance," adopted August 29, 1950, to provide coordination of emergency operations to protect the public peace, health, safety and lives and property of people in Los Angeles County, the ordinance codified in this chapter is enacted.
(Ord. 221 § 1, 1965.)
Editor's note: Los Angeles County Ordinance 10493 is the county's current emergency services ordinance.
11.03 - Cooperation with county officers.¶
Every department, commission, agency, board, officer and employee of the Los Angeles County Flood Control District shall cooperate with and assist the county chief administrative officer, the operational area director and the disaster services when so directed by the board of supervisors, to accomplish the objectives of said Ordinance 5582. While engaged in such cooperation such officers and employees shall be deemed to be engaged in their District duties and all time consumed in such cooperation shall be time legally spent in the service of this District.
(Ord. 221 § 2, 1965.)
11.05 - Expenses.¶
Subject to Ordinance 125 (set out at Chapter 3 of this code), entitled "An ordinance to provide a code of rules prescribing duties and systems of office institutional management for the Los Angeles County Flood Control District," adopted July 27, 1948, and of any ordinance supplementing or amending such code, the actual and necessary expenses of every officer and employee of the District, incurred in the performance of any service for the disaster relief authority or the operational area organization, when so requested by the board of supervisors, are a legal charge against this District.
(Ord. 221 § 3, 1965.)
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