§ 10-19. Policy and purpose of joint emergency management system.

(a)

Purpose. To ensure that the village will be prepared to cope with emergencies resulting from enemy action and with emergencies resulting from natural and manmade disasters, an emergency government organization is created to carry out the purpose set out in the state statutes.

(b)

Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this subsection, except where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:

Emergency management includes civil defense and means all those activities and measures designed or undertaken to:

(1)

Minimize the effects upon the civilian population caused or which would be caused by enemy action;

(2)

Deal with the immediate emergency conditions which could be created by such enemy action; and

(3)

Effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency restoration of, vital public utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by such enemy action.

Enemy action means any hostile action taken by a foreign power which threatens the security of the state.

Natural or manmade disaster includes all other extraordinary misfortunes affecting the county, natural or manmade, not included in the term "enemy action."

(Code 1984, § 3-3-1)

State law reference

Definitions, Wis. Stats. § 166.02.