2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-684.2. Purpose and authorities.
ARTICLE I
Purpose and Authorities
This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states, hereinafter called party states, which enact this compact. For the purposes of this compact, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions.
The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state, whether arising from natural or man-made disasters or emergencies.
This compact shall also provide for mutual cooperation in emergency-related exercises, testing, or other training activities using equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the giving and receiving of aid by party states or subdivisions of party states during emergencies, such actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods. Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of the states' National Guard forces, either in accordance with the National Guard Mutual Assistance Compact or by mutual agreement between states.
Added by Laws 1996, c. 325, § 2, emerg. eff. June 12, 1996. Amended by Laws 2003, c. 329, § 26, emerg. eff. May 29, 2003.
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