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Public Act 094-1081
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LRB094 18124 HLH 53431 b |
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AN ACT concerning emergency management.
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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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represented in the General Assembly:
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Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is |
amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
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(20 ILCS 3305/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 1054)
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Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the |
context
clearly indicates otherwise, the following words and |
terms have the
meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
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"Coordinator" means the staff assistant to the principal
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executive officer of a political subdivision with the duty of |
coordinating
the emergency management programs of that |
political subdivision.
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"Disaster" means an occurrence or threat of widespread or |
severe
damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting |
from any natural or
technological cause, including but not |
limited to fire, flood, earthquake,
wind, storm, hazardous |
materials spill or other water contamination requiring
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emergency
action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air |
contamination, blight,
extended periods of severe and |
inclement weather,
drought, infestation, critical shortages of |
essential fuels and energy,
explosion, riot, hostile military |
or
paramilitary action, public health emergencies, or acts of |
domestic
terrorism.
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"Emergency Management" means the efforts of the State and |
the
political subdivisions to develop, plan, analyze, conduct, |
provide,
implement and
maintain programs for disaster |
mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
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"Emergency Services and Disaster Agency" means the
agency |
by this name, by the name Emergency Management Agency, or by |
any other
name that is established
by ordinance within a |
political subdivision to coordinate the emergency
management |
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program within that political subdivision and with private
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organizations, other political subdivisions, the State and |
federal governments.
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"Emergency Operations Plan" means the written plan of the |
State and
political subdivisions describing the organization, |
mission, and functions
of the government and supporting |
services for responding to and recovering
from disasters and |
shall include plans that take into account the needs of those |
individuals with household pets and service animals following a |
major disaster or emergency.
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"Emergency Services" means the coordination of functions |
by the
State and its political subdivision, other than |
functions for which military
forces
are primarily responsible, |
as may be necessary or proper to prevent,
minimize, repair, and |
alleviate injury and damage resulting from
any natural or |
technological causes. These functions include, without
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limitation, fire fighting
services, police services, emergency |
aviation services, medical and
health services, HazMat and |
technical rescue teams, rescue,
engineering, warning services, |
communications, radiological,
chemical and other special |
weapons defense, evacuation of persons from
stricken or |
threatened areas, emergency assigned functions of plant |
protection,
temporary restoration of public utility services |
and other functions
related to civilian protection, together |
with all other activities
necessary or incidental to protecting |
life or property.
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"Exercise" means a planned event realistically simulating |
a disaster,
conducted for the purpose of
evaluating the |
political subdivision's coordinated emergency management
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capabilities, including,
but not limited to, testing the |
emergency operations plan.
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"HazMat team" means a career or volunteer mobile support |
team that has been authorized by a unit of local government to |
respond to hazardous materials emergencies and that is |
primarily designed for emergency response to chemical or |
biological terrorism, radiological emergencies, hazardous |
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material spills, releases, or fires, or other contamination |
events.
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"Illinois Emergency Management Agency"
means the agency
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established by this Act within the executive branch of State |
Government
responsible for coordination of the overall |
emergency management program of
the State and with private |
organizations, political subdivisions, and the
federal |
government.
Illinois Emergency Management Agency also means |
the State
Emergency Response Commission responsible for the |
implementation of Title
III of the Superfund Amendments and |
Reauthorization Act of 1986.
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"Mobile Support Team" means
a group of individuals |
designated as a team by the Governor or Director to
train prior |
to and to be
dispatched, if the Governor or the Director so |
determines, to aid and reinforce
the State and political
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subdivision emergency management efforts in response to a |
disaster.
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"Municipality" means any city, village, and incorporated |
town.
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"Political Subdivision" means any county, city, village, |
or
incorporated town or township if the township is in a county |
having a
population of more than 2,000,000.
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"Principal Executive Officer" means chair
of the county |
board, supervisor of a township if the township
is in a county |
having a population of more than 2,000,000, mayor
of a city or |
incorporated town,
president of a village,
or in their absence |
or disability, the interim successor as
established under |
Section 7 of the Emergency Interim
Executive Succession Act.
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"Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent |
threat of an
illness or health condition that:
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(a) is believed to be caused by any of the following:
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(i) bioterrorism;
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(ii) the appearance of a novel or previously |
controlled or eradicated
infectious agent or
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biological toxin;
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(iii) a natural disaster;
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(iv) a chemical attack or accidental release; or
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(v) a nuclear attack or accident; and
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(b) poses a high probability of any of the following |
harms:
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(i) a large number of deaths in the affected |
population;
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(ii) a large number of serious or long-term |
disabilities in the affected
population; or
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(iii) widespread exposure to an infectious or |
toxic agent that poses a
significant risk of |
substantial future harm to a large number of people in |
the
affected population.
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"Technical rescue team" means a career or volunteer mobile |
support team that has been authorized by a unit of local |
government to respond to building collapse, high angle rescue, |
and other specialized rescue emergencies and that is primarily |
designated for emergency response to technical rescue events.
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(Source: P.A. 93-249, eff. 7-22-03; 94-334, eff. 1-1-06.)
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