§ 2.100.050. Emergency management organization.

The Riverside County Emergency Management Organization consists of all officers and employees of the County of Riverside, its agencies, cities, tribal governments and special districts of Riverside County, together with all volunteers and all groups, organizations and persons commandeered under the provisions of the act and this chapter, with all equipment and material publicly owned, volunteered, commandeered or in any way under the control of the aforementioned personnel, for the support of the aforementioned personnel in the conduct of emergency operations.

A.

The Riverside County Emergency Management Organization shall be activated, and function only:

(1)

Upon the existence of a State of War Emergency;

(2)

Upon the Proclamation by the Governor of the State of California, or of persons authorized to act in his/her stead, of a State of Emergency affecting and including Riverside County; or

(3)

Upon the Proclamation of a Local Emergency by the Board of Supervisors of Riverside County, or by persons herein authorized to act in its stead.

(4)

Upon the Proclamation of a Public Health Emergency by the Board of Supervisors of Riverside County, or by persons herein authorized to act in its stead.

(5)

Two or more local government jurisdictions within the operational area have activated their emergency operations center or upon a request from a local government jurisdiction.

(6)

The operational area is requesting resources from outside its boundaries, except those resources used in normal day-to-day operations which are obtained through existing agreements providing for the exchange or furnishing of certain types of facilities and services on a reimbursable, exchange, or other basis as provided for under the master mutual aid agreement;

(7)

The operational area has received resource requests from outside its boundaries, except those resources used in normal day-to-day operations which are obtained through existing agreements for the exchange or furnishing of certain types of facilities and services on a reimbursable, exchange, or other basis as provided for under the master mutual aid agreement.

(8)

It is deemed necessary by the director of emergency services in order to support emergency or extreme peril conditions beyond normal day-to-day operations.

B.

The emergency management organization shall be composed of such elements as are provided for in the County of Riverside EOP. The EOP shall provide for the organization of the emergency management organization, utilizing the concepts of the SEMS and the NIMS. The Officers of the County of Riverside shall have the duty and authority to plan for the mobilization, operation and support of that segment of the emergency management organization for which each is responsible as provided for in the EOP.

(Ord. No. 533.6, § 5, 12-4-2018)