§ 3-2

The declared purposes of this chapter are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within the city in the event of an emergency or disaster and to provide for the coordination of the emergency functions of the city with all public agencies and affected private persons, corporations, and organizations. Any expenditures made in connection with such emergency and disaster activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the city.

('61 Code, § 3-2.01) (Ord. 182 C.S., passed 3-6-72)

For the purposes of this chapter, certain words and phrases used herein are defined as follows:

LOCAL EMERGENCY. The actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or the imminent threat of war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the city, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.

STATE OF WAR EMERGENCY. The condition which exists immediately, with or without proclamation thereof by the Governor, whenever the state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the US, or upon receipt by the state of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.

STATE OF EMERGENCY. The duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state, county, or city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, conditions causing a STATE OF EMERGENCY which by reason of their magnitude are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat.

('61 Code, § 3-2.02) (Ord. 182 C.S., passed 3-6-72)