Utah Code 53-2a-306. Duties of the Division of Emergency Management and participating political subdivisions
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(1) The division shall:
Terms Used In Utah Code 53-2a-306
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Disaster: means an event that:(5)(a) causes, or threatens to cause, loss of life, human suffering, public or private property damage, or economic or social disruption resulting from attack, internal disturbance, natural phenomena, or technological hazard; and(5)(b) requires resources that are beyond the scope of local agencies in routine responses to emergencies and accidents and may be of a magnitude or involve unusual circumstances that require response by government, not-for-profit, or private entities. See Utah Code 53-2a-102
- Division: means the Division of Emergency Management created in Section 53-2a-103. See Utah Code 53-2a-102
- Participating political subdivision: means each county, municipality, public safety district, and public safety interlocal entity that has not adopted a resolution under Section 53-2a-306 withdrawing itself from the statewide mutual aid system. See Utah Code 53-2a-302
- Political subdivision: means the same as that term is defined in Section 11-61-102. See Utah Code 53-2a-102
- Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
- State: means the state of Utah. See Utah Code 53-2a-302
- system: means the aggregate of all participating political subdivisions and the state. See Utah Code 53-2a-302
(1)(a) receive and maintain an inventory of the state and local services, equipment, supplies, personnel, and other resources related to participation inTitle 53, Chapter 2a, Part 4, Emergency Management Assistance Compact , and this part; and(1)(b) make rules in accordance withTitle 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act , to prepare and coordinate a process and plans so that the division may assist political subdivisions that are acting as agents of the state in mobilizing or demobilizing available assets in response to an intrastate or interstate disaster as provided inTitle 53, Chapter 2a, Part 4, Emergency Management Assistance Compact .
(2) Each participating political subdivision in the Statewide Mutual Aid Act shall:
(2)(a) identify potential hazards that could affect the participating political subdivision;
(2)(b) conduct joint planning, intelligence sharing, and threat assessment development with contiguous participating political subdivisions and conduct joint training with them at least biennially;
(2)(c) identify and inventory the services, equipment, supplies, personnel, and other resources related to participating political subdivision’s planning, prevention, mitigation, response, and recovery activities; and
(2)(d) adopt and implement the standardized incident management system approved by the division.