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What is the
Emergency Management Advisory Council?
IC
10-14-3-17
County emergency management
advisory council; local emergency management organizations;
power of political subdivisions; public work
Sec. 17. (a)
A political subdivision is:
(1) within the jurisdiction of; and
(2) served by;
a department of emergency management or by an
interjurisdictional agency responsible for disaster
preparedness and coordination of response.
(b) A county shall:
(1) maintain a county emergency management
advisory council and a county emergency management
organization; or
(2) participate in an interjurisdictional disaster
agency that, except as otherwise provided under this
chapter, may have jurisdiction over and serve the entire
county.
(c) The county emergency management advisory council
consists of the following individuals or their designees:
(1) The president of the county executive or, if
the county executive does not have a president, a member
of the county executive appointed from the membership of
the county executive.
(2) The president of the county fiscal body.
(3) The mayor of each city located in the county.
(4) An individual representing the legislative
bodies of all towns located in the county.
(5) Representatives of private and public agencies
or organizations that can assist emergency management
considered appropriate by the county emergency management
advisory council.
(6) One (1) commander of a local civil air patrol
unit in the county or the commander's designee.
(d) The county emergency management advisory council
shall do the following:
(1) Exercise general supervision and control over
the emergency management and disaster program of the
county.
(2) Select or cause to be selected, with the
approval of the county executive, a county emergency
management and disaster director who:
(A) has direct responsibility for the
organization, administration, and operation of the
emergency management program in the county; and
(B) is responsible to the chairman of the
county emergency management advisory council.
(e) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or
other law to the contrary, the governor may require a
political subdivision to establish and maintain a disaster
agency jointly with one (1) or more contiguous political
subdivisions with the concurrence of the affected
political divisions if the governor finds that the
establishment and maintenance of an agency or
participation in one (1) is necessary by circumstances or
conditions that make it unusually difficult to provide:
(1) disaster prevention;
(2) preparedness;
(3) response; or
(4) recovery services;
under this chapter.
(f) A political subdivision that does not have a
disaster agency and has not made arrangements to secure or
participate in the services of an agency shall have an
emergency management director designated to facilitate the
cooperation and protection of that political subdivision
in the work of:
(1) disaster prevention;
(2) preparedness;
(3) response; and
(4) recovery.
(g) The county emergency management and disaster
director and personnel of the department may be provided
with appropriate:
(1) office space;
(2) furniture;
(3) vehicles;
(4) communications;
(5) equipment;
(6) supplies;
(7) stationery; and
(8) printing;
in the same manner as provided for personnel of other
county agencies.
(h) Each local or interjurisdictional agency shall:
(1) prepare; and
(2) keep current;
a local or interjurisdictional disaster emergency plan for
its area.
(i) The local or interjurisdictional disaster agency
shall prepare and distribute to all appropriate officials
a clear and complete written statement of:
(1) the emergency responsibilities of all local
agencies and officials; and
(2) the disaster chain of command.
(j) Each political subdivision may:
(1) appropriate and expend funds, make contracts,
obtain and distribute equipment, materials, and supplies
for emergency management and disaster purposes, provide
for the health and safety of persons and property,
including emergency assistance to the victims of a
disaster resulting from enemy attack, provide for a
comprehensive insurance program for its emergency
management volunteers, and direct and coordinate the
development of an emergency management program and
emergency operations plan in accordance with the policies
and plans set by the federal emergency management agency
and the state emergency management agency;
(2) appoint, employ, remove, or provide, with or
without compensation:
(A) rescue teams;
(B) auxiliary fire and police personnel; and
(C) other emergency management and disaster
workers;
(3) establish:
(A) a primary; and
(B) one (1) or more secondary;
control centers to serve as command posts during
an emergency;
(4) subject to the order of the governor or the
chief executive of the political subdivision, assign and
make available for duty the employees, property, or
equipment of the political subdivision relating to:
(A) firefighting;
(B) engineering;
(C) rescue;
(D) health, medical, and related services;
(E) police;
(F) transportation;
(G) construction; and
(H) similar items or services;
for emergency management and disaster purposes
within or outside the physical limits of the political
subdivision; and
(5) in the event of a national security emergency
or disaster emergency as provided in section 12 of this
chapter, waive procedures and formalities otherwise
required by law pertaining to:
(A) the performance of public work;
(B) the entering into of contracts;
(C) the incurring of obligations;
(D) the employment of permanent and temporary
workers;
(E) the use of volunteer workers;
(F) the rental of equipment;
(G) the purchase and distribution of supplies,
materials, and facilities; and
(H) the appropriation and expenditure of
public funds.
As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.115-2003,
SEC.12.
For the Indiana Code in its entirety, click on the link
below:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/ic/code/title10/
Updated: March 14, 2005
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