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<br />Ordinance No. NS-XXX
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<br />Director or director of emergency services means the individual having primary
<br />jurisdiction and authority over the city's response and recovery to emergencies and
<br />disasters and is authorized to act on behalf of the city.
<br />Emergency or local emergency means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions
<br />of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial
<br />limits of the city or county, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm,
<br />epidemic, riot, drought, cyberterrorism, sudden and severe energy shortage,
<br />deenergization event, electromagnetic pulse attack, plant or animal infestation or
<br />disease, the governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an
<br />earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor
<br />controversy, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel,
<br />equipment, and facilities of the political subdivision and require the combined forces of
<br />other political subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a
<br />sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the
<br />authority vested in the California Public Utilities Commission.
<br />Emergency services/emergency operations/emergency management, used
<br />interchangeably, means the preparation for and carrying out of all emergency functions
<br />necessary to mitigate, prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from large
<br />emergencies or disasters caused by all hazards, whether natural, technological or
<br />human caused.
<br />State of emergency means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster
<br />or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the state, caused by
<br />such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought,
<br />cyberterrorism, sudden and severe energy shortage, deenergization event,
<br />electromagnetic pulse attack, plant or animal infestation or disease, the governor's
<br />warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, or other conditions,
<br />other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of
<br />war emergency," which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the
<br />control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single county, city
<br />and county, or city and require the combined forces of a mutual aid region or regions to
<br />combat, or with respect to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy
<br />shortage requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the California
<br />Public Utilities Commission.
<br />State of war emergency means the condition which exists immediately, with or
<br />without a proclamation thereof by the governor, whenever this state or nation is
<br />attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of a warning
<br />from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or
<br />imminent.
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<br /> Section 4. The City Council finds and determines that this ordinance is not
<br />subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections
<br />15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3) of the State CEQA Guidelines because it will not result i n a
<br />direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment, as there is
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