Vermont Statutes Title 20 Sec. 3a
Terms Used In Vermont Statutes Title 20 Sec. 3a
- All-hazards: means any natural disaster, health or disease-related emergency, accident, civil insurrection, use of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist or criminal incident, radiological incident, significant event, and designated special event, any of which may occur individually, simultaneously, or in combination and that poses a threat or may pose a threat, as determined by the Commissioner or designee, to property or public safety in Vermont. See
- Domestic: when applied to a corporation, company, association, or copartnership shall mean organized under the laws of this State; "foreign" when so applied, shall mean organized under the laws of another state, government, or country. See
- Emergency functions: include services provided by the Department of Public Safety, firefighting services, police services, sheriff's department services, medical and health services, rescue, engineering, emergency warning services, communications, evacuation of persons, emergency welfare services, protection of critical infrastructure, emergency transportation, temporary restoration of public utility services, other functions related to civilian protection, and all other activities necessary or incidental to the preparation for and carrying out of these functions. See
- Emergency management: means the preparation for and implementation of all emergency functions, other than the functions for which the U. See
- Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
- Municipality: shall include a city, town, town school district, incorporated school or fire district or incorporated village, and all other governmental incorporated units. See
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States may apply to the District of Columbia and any territory and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See
- Town: shall include city and wards or precincts therein; "selectboard members" and "board of civil authority" shall extend to and include the mayor and aldermen of cities; "trustees" shall extend to and include bailiffs of incorporated villages; and the laws applicable to the inhabitants and officers of towns shall be applicable to the inhabitants and similar officers of all municipal corporations. See
§ 3a. Emergency Management Division; duties; budget
(a) In addition to other duties required by law, the Division of Emergency Management shall:
(1) Establish and maintain a comprehensive State emergency management strategy that includes an emergency management plan; establish and define regional emergency management committees; and prepare an all-hazards mitigation plan in cooperation with other State, regional, and local agencies in compliance with adopted federal standards for emergency management. The strategy shall be designed to protect the lives and property, including domestic animals, of persons within this State who might be threatened as the result of all-hazards, and shall align State coordination structures, capabilities, and resources into a unified and multidisciplined all-hazards approach to incident management.
(2) Assist the State Emergency Response Commission, the local emergency planning committees, the regional emergency management committees, and the municipally established local organizations referred to in section 6 of this title in carrying out their designated emergency functions, including developing, implementing, and coordinating emergency plans.
(b) Each fiscal year, the Division of Emergency Management, in collaboration with State and local agencies, the management of the nuclear reactor, the legislative bodies of the municipalities in the emergency planning zone where the nuclear reactor is located, the Windham Regional Planning Commission, and any other municipality or emergency planning zone entity required by the State to support the Radiological Emergency Response Plan, shall develop the budget for expenditures from the Radiological Emergency Response Plan Fund. The expenditure budget shall include all costs for evacuation notification systems.
(c) From the Fund, each town within the emergency planning zone shall receive an annual base payment of no less than $5,000.00 for radiological emergency response-related expenditures from the Radiological Emergency Response Plan Fund. Additional expenditures by municipalities in the emergency planning zone, the Windham Regional Planning Commission, and any other municipality or emergency planning entity defined by the State as required to support the Plan shall be determined during the budget development process established by subsection (b) of this section. (Added 1989, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; amended 1993, No. 194 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. June 14, 1994; 2005, No. 209 (Adj. Sess.), § 5; 2005, No. 215 (Adj. Sess.), § 68a; 2021, No. 52, § 17.)