Arizona Laws 26-304. State emergency council; membership; powers and duties; definition
A. The state emergency council is established consisting of the following persons or their designee:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 26-304
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Council: means the state emergency council. See Arizona Laws 26-301
- Director: means the director of the division. See Arizona Laws 26-301
- Division: means the division of emergency management within the department of emergency and military affairs. See Arizona Laws 26-301
- Emergency management: means the preparedness, response, recovery and mitigation activities necessary to respond to and recover from disasters, emergencies or contingencies. See Arizona Laws 26-301
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Response: means activities that are designed to provide emergency assistance, limit the primary effects, reduce the probability of secondary damage and speed recovery operations. See Arizona Laws 26-301
- State of emergency: means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons or property within the state caused by air pollution, fire, flood or floodwater, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake or other causes, except those resulting in a state of war emergency, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of any single county, city or town, and which require the combined efforts of the state and the political subdivision. See Arizona Laws 26-301
1. Governor.
2. Secretary of state.
3. Attorney general.
4. Adjutant general.
5. Director of the division of emergency management.
6. Director of the department of transportation.
7. Director of the department of health services.
8. Director of environmental quality.
9. Director of the department of public safety.
10. Director of the Arizona department of agriculture.
11. Director of the department of administration.
12. Director of water resources.
13. President of the senate as an advisory member.
14. Speaker of the house of representatives as an advisory member.
B. The powers and duties of the council include:
1. Making recommendations for orders, rules, policies and procedures to the governor.
2. Recommending to the governor the assignment of any responsibility, service or activity to a state agency relative to emergencies or planning for emergencies.
3. Issuing, in the event of inaccessibility of the governor, a state of emergency proclamation under the same conditions by which the governor could issue such a proclamation, if the action is taken at a meeting of the council called by the director and if not less than three council members, one of whom is an elected official, approve the action.
C. The council shall monitor each emergency declared by the governor and the activities and response of the division to the emergency. The council shall recommend to the governor or the legislature based on the reports submitted to it by the auditor that the emergency conditions have stabilized and that the emergency is substantially contained.
D. For the purposes of this section, "advisory member" means a member who gives advice to the other members of the state emergency council at meetings of the council but who is not eligible to vote, is not a member for purposes of determining whether a quorum is present and is not eligible to receive any compensation or reimbursement of expenses by the council.