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ORDINANCE NS-1159 AMENDING THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE BY AMENDING DIVISION 3, ARTICLE IV, OF CHAPTER 2 THEREOF RELATING TO EMERGENCY ORGANIZATION & FUNCTIONS WHEREAS, in order to bring the Emergency Services provisions of the City of Santa Ana up to existing external law, it is necessary that said provisions be amended; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by amending Division 3, Article IV, of Chapter 2 thereof to read in words and figures, as follows: DIVISION 3. EMERGENCY SERVICES Sec. 2-400. Purposes. The declared purposes of this division are to provide for the preparation and carrying out of plans for the protection of persons and property within this city in the event of an emergency, and to provide for the coordination of the emergency functions of the city with all other public agencies and affected private persons, corporations and organizations. Any expenditures made in connection with such emergency activities, including mutual aid activities, shall be deemed conclusively to be for the direct protection and benefit of the inhabitants and property of the city. Sec. 2-401. Definitions. For the purpose of this division, certain words and phrases shall be construed as follows, unless it is apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended: EMERGENCY SERVICES: The organized preparation for and carrying out of all emergency functions for which the City of Santa Ana would normally be responsible in order to prevent, minimize, or repair the injury and damage resulting from any disaster, actual or threatened, against personnel, land, or buildings, such as extraordinary fire, flood, earthquake, epidemic, riot, major explosion or other similar public calamity. EMERGENCY: Included within the term "emergency" are the three degrees of emergency enumerated in the California Emer- gency Services Act, Sect. 8558 of the Government Code. (a) "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. (b) "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 pollu- tion, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earth- quake or other conditions, other than conditions -1-