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39B.060 Emergency operations plan.
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The city or county, joint county when counties are acting jointly under KRS
39B.010, or city/county emergency operations plan developed pursuant to the
provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F shall include adequate provisions or
procedures to assess, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from all disaster
or emergency incidents contemplated by KRS 39A.010, 39A.020, or 39A.030 and
shall provide for all functions contemplated by these sections.
The local emergency operations plan shall be submitted by the local director to the
county judge/executive, or chief executive officers of each participating county
when counties are acting jointly under KRS 39B.010, mayor, or chief executive of
other local governments immediately following each regular election for these
offices, for approval and adoption by the local chief executives through issuance of
an executive order pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F.
In the event of a conflict between a city emergency operations plan and a county
emergency operations plan and decisions made thereunder:
(a) The decision made pursuant to the county plan shall prevail if the incident, its
consequences, or the threat thereof, extend beyond the boundaries of the city;
(b) The decision made pursuant to the city plan shall prevail if the incident, its
consequences, or the threat of the incident, do not extend beyond the
boundaries of the city; and
(c) The same precedence shall govern plans of urban-counties and charter
counties.
The joint plan established by counties acting jointly pursuant to KRS 39B.010 shall
incorporate a joint decision-making process whereby the chief executive officers, or
their designees, use the integrated emergency management system and the unified
incident command system set out in KRS 39A.230 to deal with any incident.
Effective: July 15, 2014
History: Amended 2014 Ky. Acts ch. 99, sec. 7, effective July 15, 2014. -- Created
1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 34, effective July 15, 1998.
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