Local emergency definition

Local emergency means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, 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 an 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 that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.”
Local emergency means the condition declared by the local governing body when in its judgment the threat or actual occurrence of an emergency or disaster is or threatens to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant coordinated local government action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss, hardship or suffering threatened or caused thereby; provided, however, that a local emergency arising wholly or substantially out of a resource shortage may be declared only by the Governor, upon petition of the local governing body, when he deems the threat or actual occurrence of such an emergency or disaster to be of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant coordinated local government action to prevent or alleviate the damage, loss, hardship or suffering threatened or caused thereby; provided, however, nothing in this chapter shall be construed as prohibiting a local governing body from the prudent management of its water supply to prevent or manage a water shortage;
Local emergency means a condition in any municipality or county of the state which requires that emergency assistance be provided by the affected municipality or county or another political subdivision to save lives and protect property within its jurisdiction in response to a disaster, or to avoid or reduce the threat of a disaster.

Examples of Local emergency in a sentence

  • Local emergency management personnel and local EOC partner agencies are cooperatively engaged in incident monitoring activities.


More Definitions of Local emergency

Local emergency means the condition declared by the local governing body when in its
Local emergency means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and county, or city.
Local emergency means the existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a district, city, county or district and city or district and city and county, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake or other conditions.
Local emergency means the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons or property within the territorial limits of one of the Parties caused by human or natural conditions such as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, wind, earthquake, explosion, transportation accident, hazardous material problem, tsunami, sudden or severe energy shortage, epidemic, riot or other occurrences, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which occurrences, or the immediate threat thereof, are likely to be beyond the control of the personnel, equipment, or facilities of that Party to this Agreement and which personnel, equipment or facilities of the other Party are therefore desired to combat.
Local emergency is defined as an urgent need requiring immediate action or attention beyond normal capabilities, procedures and scope for aid and assistance by an agency.
Local emergency means the existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a town, city, county or city and county, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, 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 that political subdivision and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat;
Local emergency means the existence of conditions within the territorial limits of a local agency, in the absence of a duly proclaimed state of emergency, which conditions are a result of an emergency created by great public calamity such as air pollution, extraordinary fire, flood, storm, earthquake, civil disturbances ,or other disaster which is or is likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of that agency and require the combined forces of other local agencies to combat. (California Emergency Services Act, Chapter 7 of Division 1 of Title 2 of the Government Code - 1970 Statutes.)