(1) City, county, urban-county governments, and charter county governments, school districts, special purpose district boards, or other municipal corporations or political subdivisions of the state or local government shall participate in the planning process conducted by local emergency planning committees. This participation shall include, as a minimum, providing information concerning government-owned or controlled emergency response assets, reviewing plans developed by the committee, and concurring that the final plan can be executed with existing resources.
(2) In local governments where local emergency management agencies receive state or federal funds, those agencies shall provide administrative and planning support to the committee as specified by the director of the division.

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Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 39E.140

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • City: includes town. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Release: means , but is not limited to, any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the environment, including the abandonment or discarding of barrels, containers and other closed receptacles, of any hazardous substance. See Kentucky Statutes 39E.020
  • State: when applied to a part of the United States, includes territories, outlying possessions, and the District of Columbia. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

(3) If state or federal funds are appropriated specifically to support emergency response planning or other portions of Pub. L. No. 99-499, these funds may be allocated to local emergency management agencies and may be expended as specified by the director.
(4) Local governments may enact ordinances specifying standards which owners or operators of facilities shall meet to provide warning of releases to workers and to the public which may be affected by a release.
Effective: July 15, 1998
History: Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 226, sec. 71, effective July 15, 1998.