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Disaster and Emergency Services (Montana Code Annotated 2019: Title 10. Military Affairs and Disaster and Emergency Services; Chapter 3.)

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
Montana
Document type
Legislation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., General
Keyword
Hazards Governance Early warning system Risk assessment/management Public health Institution Procedural matters
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This chapter concerns disaster and emergency services. Specifically, it declares it necessary to: (1) authorize the creation of local or inter-jurisdictional organizations for disaster and emergency services in the political subdivisions of the state; (2) reduce vulnerability of people and communities of the state to damage, injury, and loss of life and property resulting from natural or human-caused disasters; (3) provide a setting conducive to the rapid and orderly start of restoration and rehabilitation of persons and property affected by disasters; (4) clarify and strengthen the roles of the governor, state agencies, local governments, and tribal governments in prevention of, preparation for, response to, and recovery from emergencies and disasters; (5) authorize and provide for cooperation in disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery; (6) authorize and provide for coordination of activities relating to disaster prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery by agencies and officers of the state and similar state-local, interstate, federal-state, and foreign activities in which the state, its political subdivisions, and tribal governments may participate; (7) provide an emergency and disaster management system embodying all aspects of emergency or disaster prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery; (8) assist in prevention of disasters caused or aggravated by inadequate planning for public and private facilities and land use; (9) supplement, without in any way limiting, authority conferred by previous statutes of the state and increase the capability of the state, local, and inter-jurisdictional disaster and emergency services agencies to perform disaster and emergency services; and (10) authorize the payment of extraordinary costs and the temporary hiring, with statutorily appropriated funds, of professional and technical personnel to meet the state's responsibilities in providing assistance in the response to, recovery from, and mitigation of disasters in state, tribal government, or federal emergency or disaster declarations.

Full text
English
Website
leg.mt.gov

References - Legislation

Implemented by

Declaration of a State of Emergency to Exist within State of Montana Related to Communicable Disease Covid-19 Novel Corona Virus (Executive Order No. 2-2020 of Governor of State of Montana)

Legislation | United States of America | 2020

Keyword: Public health, Hazards, Risk assessment/management

Source: FAO, FAOLEX