39A.020 Definitions for KRS Chapters 39A to 39F.
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39A.020 Definitions for KRS Chapters 39A to 39F.
As used in KRS Chapters 39A to 39F, unless the context requires otherwise: <br>(1) "Adjutant General" means the executive head of the Department of Military Affairs
vested with general direction and control authority for the department and the <br>division of emergency management;
(2) "Catastrophe" means a disaster or series of concurrent disasters which adversely
affect the entire Commonwealth of Kentucky or a major geographical portion <br>thereof;
(3) "Comprehensive emergency management program" means the public safety
program developed, organized, implemented, administered, maintained, and <br>coordinated by the Division of Emergency Management and local emergency <br>management agencies created pursuant to the provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to <br>39F, to assess, mitigate, prepare for, respond to, or recover from, an emergency, <br>declared emergency, disaster, or catastrophe, or threat of any of those, as <br>contemplated in KRS 39A.010 or as defined in this section;
(4) "Coordination" means having and exercising primary state or local executive branch
oversight for the purpose of organizing, planning, and implementing;
(5) "Declared emergency" means any incident or situation declared to be an emergency
by executive order of the Governor, or a county judge/executive, or a mayor, or the <br>chief executive of other local governments in the Commonwealth pursuant to the <br>provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F;
(6) "Director" means the director of the Division of Emergency Management of the
Department of Military Affairs;
(7) "Disaster" means any incident or situation declared as such by executive order of
the Governor, or the President of the United States, pursuant to federal law;
(8) "Disaster and emergency response" means the performance of all emergency
functions, other than war-related functions for which military forces are primarily <br>responsible, including, but not limited to: direction and control, incident command, <br>or management; communications; fire protection services; police services; medical <br>and health services; ambulance services; rescue; search and rescue or recovery; <br>urban search and rescue; engineering; alerting and warning services; resource <br>management; public works services; nuclear, chemical, biological, or other <br>hazardous material or substance monitoring, containment, decontamination, <br>neutralization, and disposal; emergency worker protection, site safety, site <br>operations and response planning; evacuation of persons; emergency welfare <br>services; emergency transportation; physical plant protection; temporary restoration <br>of public utility services; emergency lighting and power services; emergency public <br>information; incident investigation, hazards analysis, and damage assessment; and <br>other functions related to effective reaction to a disaster or emergency or <br>catastrophe, or the potential, threatened, or impending threat of any disaster or <br>emergency or catastrophe, together with all other activities necessary or incidental <br>to the preparation for and carrying out of the functions set out in this subsection;
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(9) "Division" means the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of
Military Affairs;
(10) "Emergency" means any incident or situation which poses a major threat to public
safety so as to cause, or threaten to cause, loss of life, serious injury, significant <br>damage to property, or major harm to public health or the environment and which a <br>local emergency response agency determines is beyond its capabilities;
(11) "Integrated emergency management system" means the unified and
multidisciplinary disaster and emergency response infrastructure developed in the <br>Commonwealth, under the coordination of the division, using methods which align <br>state or local administrative, organizational, and operational resources, to <br>accomplish the mission, goals, and objectives of the comprehensive emergency <br>management program of the Commonwealth;
(12) "Local disaster and emergency services organization" means that organization of
public and private entities developed to carry out the multiagency disaster and <br>emergency response of a city, county, urban-county or charter county pursuant to <br>KRS Chapters 39A to 39F;
(13) "Local emergency management agency" means the agency created, operated, and
maintained to coordinate the local comprehensive emergency management program <br>and disaster and emergency response of a city, county, and urban-county or charter <br>county government pursuant to KRS Chapters 39A to 39F;
(14) "Local emergency management director" or "Local director" means the executive
head of the local emergency management agency, appointed pursuant to the <br>provisions of KRS Chapters 39A to 39F;
(15) "State emergency management agency" means the Division of Emergency
Management of the Department of Military Affairs; and
(16) "State emergency management director" means the director of the Division of
Emergency Management.
Effective: July 15, 1998 <br>History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 2, effective July 15, 1998.
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