§ 500-020. DEFINITIONS

Emergency Organization means all officers and employees of Sutter County, together with those volunteer forces enrolled to aid them during an emergency; all groups, organizations, and/or persons who may, by agreement or operation of law, including persons impressed into service under the provisions of Section 500-035(B)(6)(d) hereof, who may be charged with the duties incident to the protection of life and property in this County during such emergency.

Disaster Council means the body of individuals who are identified by the Board of Supervisors to assist the Emergency Operations Manager in developing appropriate emergency and disaster plans.

Incident Command System (ICS) means a nationally used standardized on-scene emergency management concept specifically designed to allow its user(s) to adopt an integrated organizational structure equal to the complexity and demands of single or multiple incidents without being hindered by jurisdictional boundaries. ICS is the combination of facilities, equipment, personnel, procedures, and communications operating within a common organizational structure with responsibility for the management of resources to accomplish stated objectives pertinent to an incident.

Local Emergency means the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of Sutter County caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, acts of terrorism, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, or earthquake or other conditions, which conditions are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of this county and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.

National Incident Management System (NIMS) means a consistent nationwide approach for responding to all kinds of incidents no matter what the size, scope, cause or complexity.

Operational Area (OA) means the designation of a county, in accordance with Government Code Section 8605, for the coordination of emergency activities and to serve as a link in the communications system during a state of emergency or a local emergency. The Sutter County OA is an intermediate level of the state emergency management organization, consisting of the County of Sutter and all political subdivisions within the county area.

Standardized Emergency Management System (SEMS) means a standardized response to emergencies involving multiple jurisdictions or multiple agencies. SEMS requires emergency response agencies to use basic principles and components of emergency management including the Incident Command System, multi-agency or inter-agency coordination, the operational area concept, and established mutual aid systems.

State of Emergency means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.

State of War Emergency means the condition which exists immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor, whenever this state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent.

Unavailable means that the officer is dead, missing, or so seriously injured as to be unable to attend meetings and otherwise performs his/her duties.