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39B.050 Local disaster and emergency services organization -- Membership
-- Responsibility.
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Each local emergency management director shall establish and maintain a
local disaster and emergency services organization in accordance with a city or
county or city/county or joint counties emergency operations plan required
pursuant to KRS Chapters 39A to 39F. The local disaster and emergency
services organization shall be comprised of the following members and
participants:
(a) The county judge/executive, or chief executive officers when counties are
acting jointly under KRS 39B.010, and mayors, or the chief executive of
other local governments;
(b) Elected legislative officials of the county and cities;
(c) The local emergency management director and all local emergency
management agency staff members and workers, or emergency
management agency-supervised operating units or personnel;
(d) All regular or volunteer public safety or emergency services department
heads or agency chiefs in the cities or county;
(e) All regular or volunteer public safety or emergency services department
or agency members in the cities or county;
(f) All districts, corporations, public agencies, groups, or political
subdivisions of the state and special districts within the county or the
cities thereof, which are organized under the laws of the Commonwealth
to provide an emergency response service or related function in the
interest of public safety; and
(g) All private sector personnel, agencies, organizations, companies,
businesses, or individuals and citizens who agree to provide their assets,
resources, talents, services, or supplies in aid to the local disaster and
emergency services organization of the cities or county in accordance
with the approved local emergency operations plan of the city, county, or
counties acting jointly under KRS 39B.010, urban-county government, or
charter county government.
The local disaster and emergency services organization shall have
responsibility for the performance of all disaster and emergency response
functions contemplated in KRS 39A.010, 39A.020, or 39A.030 and as listed or
assigned in the city, county, or counties acting jointly under KRS 39B.010, or
city/county emergency operations plan, except that the Division of Forestry of
the Energy and Environment Cabinet shall have primary responsibility for
directing the implementation of all forest fire emergency responses consistent
with KRS Chapter 149. Disaster and emergency response functions may be
assigned within the local disaster and emergency services organization to
existing agencies and organizations, public and private. It shall not be
necessary for the local disaster and emergency services organization to create,
provide, or maintain an additional or auxiliary capability for any existing function
or service deemed adequate to local needs.
The local disaster and emergency services organization shall be the primary
disaster and emergency response force of city, county, or counties acting
jointly under KRS 39B.010, urban-county government, or charter county
government and an organizational component of the integrated emergency
management system of the Commonwealth. The local emergency
management director shall have primary responsibility for the coordination of all
disaster and emergency response of the local disaster and emergency services
organization for an emergency, declared emergency, disaster, or catastrophe.
Effective:July 15, 2014
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 6, effective July 15, 2014. -Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 24, sec. 30, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created 1998
Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 33, effective July 15, 1998.
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