2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-687.2. Definitions.
As used in this act:
1. “Emergency” means any occasion or instance for which, in the determination of the President of the United States or the Governor of the State of Oklahoma, federal or state assistance is needed to supplement state and local efforts and capabilities to save lives, protect property, public health and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a catastrophe in any part of the state; and
2. “Man-made disaster” means a disaster caused by acts of man including, but not limited to, an act of war, terrorism, chemical spill or release, or power shortage that requires assistance from outside the local political subdivision.
Added by Laws 1961, p. 587, § 2, emerg. eff. July 11, 1961. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 46, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
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