Sec. 10-2. - Definitions.

For the purpose of this article, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

"County" means the county of Sonoma.

"Director" means the director of emergency services of the county/operational area.

"Disaster service worker" shall be as prescribed in Chapter 1 (commencing with 3201) of Part 1, Division 4 of the Labor Code.

"Emergency" means the existence of a state of war emergency, state of emergency, or local emergency as herein defined.

"Emergency council" means the Sonoma county/operational area emergency council organized pursuant to the provisions of Section 10-7 of this chapter.

"Emergency services organization" means all officers and employees of the county/operational area, all persons enrolled to aid such officers and employees during an emergency, and all officers and employees of political subdivisions, groups, organizations, or persons, who may, by agreement, or by operation of law, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property within the county during an emergency, or who may be impressed into service pursuant to law.

"HSPD-5" means Homeland Security Presidential Directive — 5 signed by President George W. Bush, February 28, 2003 to manage domestic incidents by establishing a single, comprehensive national incident management system.

"Incident command system (ICS)" means a nationally used standardized on-scene emergency management concept specifically designed to allow users to adopt an integrated organizational structure equal to the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries.

"Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence, or threatened existence, of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territory of the county or within any portion thereof, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, hazardous material incident, storm, epidemic, riot, tsunami, act of terrorism, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, earthquake, or other conditions, 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 County and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.

"National Incident Management System (NIMS)" means the system mandated by HSPD-5 that provides a consistent nationwide approach for Federal, State, local, and tribal governments; the private-sector, and nongovernmental organizations to work effectively and efficiently together to prepare for, respond to, and recover from domestic incidents, regardless of cause, size, or complexity. To provide for interoperability and compatibility among federal, state, local, and tribal capabilities, the NIMS includes a core set of concepts, principles, and terminology. HSPD-5 identifies these as the ICS; multi-agency coordination systems; training; identification and management of resources (including systems for classifying types of resources); qualification and certification; and the collection, tracking, and reporting of incident information and incident resources.

"Operational area" means an intermediate level of the State Emergency Services Organization, consisting of the county of Sonoma and all political subdivisions within the county area.

"Political subdivision" means all counties, city and counties, cities, districts, and other local government agencies or public agencies authorized by law in the state of California, including the county of Sonoma.

"Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS)" means a management tool intended to standardize response to emergencies involving multiple jurisdictions or multiple agencies. SEMS requires emergency response agencies to utilize basic principals and components of emergency management including: Incident command system (ICS), multi-agency or interagency coordination, the operational area concept, and established mutual aid systems.

"State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within this state caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, hazardous material incident, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction or earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which conditions 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, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.

"State of war emergency" means a condition which exists immediately with or without a proclamation thereof by the governor, whenever this state or the United States is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of California of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.

"Sudden and severe energy shortage" means a rapid unforeseen shortage of energy, resulting from, but not limited to, events such as an embargo, sabotage, or natural disasters, and which has statewide, regional, or local impact.

(Ord. 5761 § 1, 2007: Ord. No. 5204 § 2, 1999.)