2015 Kentucky Revised Statutes
CHAPTER 39B - LOCAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS
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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