Full Text of HB4804 94th General Assembly
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| AN ACT concerning emergency management.
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| Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
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| represented in the General Assembly:
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| Section 5. The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act is | 5 |
| amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
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| (20 ILCS 3305/4) (from Ch. 127, par. 1054)
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| Sec. 4. Definitions. As used in this Act, unless the | 8 |
| context
clearly indicates otherwise, the following words and | 9 |
| terms have the
meanings ascribed to them in this Section:
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| "Coordinator" means the staff assistant to the principal
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| executive officer of a political subdivision with the duty of | 12 |
| coordinating
the emergency management programs of that | 13 |
| political subdivision.
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| "Disaster" means an occurrence or threat of widespread or | 15 |
| severe
damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting | 16 |
| from any natural or
technological cause, including but not | 17 |
| limited to fire, flood, earthquake,
wind, storm, hazardous | 18 |
| materials spill or other water contamination requiring
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| emergency
action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air | 20 |
| contamination, blight,
extended periods of severe and | 21 |
| inclement weather,
drought, infestation, critical shortages of | 22 |
| essential fuels and energy,
explosion, riot, hostile military | 23 |
| or
paramilitary action, public health emergencies, or acts of | 24 |
| domestic
terrorism.
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| "Emergency Management" means the efforts of the State and | 26 |
| the
political subdivisions to develop, plan, analyze, conduct, | 27 |
| provide,
implement and
maintain programs for disaster | 28 |
| mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery.
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| "Emergency Services and Disaster Agency" means the
agency | 30 |
| by this name, by the name Emergency Management Agency, or by | 31 |
| any other
name that is established
by ordinance within a | 32 |
| political subdivision to coordinate the emergency
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| program within that political subdivision and with private
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| organizations, other political subdivisions, the State and | 3 |
| federal governments.
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| "Emergency Operations Plan" means the written plan of the | 5 |
| State and
political subdivisions describing the organization, | 6 |
| mission, and functions
of the government and supporting | 7 |
| services for responding to and recovering
from disasters and | 8 |
| shall include plans that take into account the needs of those | 9 |
| individuals with household pets and service animals following a | 10 |
| major disaster or emergency .
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| "Emergency Services" means the coordination of functions | 12 |
| by the
State and its political subdivision, other than | 13 |
| functions for which military
forces
are primarily responsible, | 14 |
| as may be necessary or proper to prevent,
minimize, repair, and | 15 |
| alleviate injury and damage resulting from
any natural or | 16 |
| technological causes. These functions include, without
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| limitation, fire fighting
services, police services, emergency | 18 |
| aviation services, medical and
health services, HazMat and | 19 |
| technical rescue teams, rescue,
engineering, warning services, | 20 |
| communications, radiological,
chemical and other special | 21 |
| weapons defense, evacuation of persons from
stricken or | 22 |
| threatened areas, emergency assigned functions of plant | 23 |
| protection,
temporary restoration of public utility services | 24 |
| and other functions
related to civilian protection, together | 25 |
| with all other activities
necessary or incidental to protecting | 26 |
| life or property.
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| "Exercise" means a planned event realistically simulating | 28 |
| a disaster,
conducted for the purpose of
evaluating the | 29 |
| political subdivision's coordinated emergency management
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| capabilities, including,
but not limited to, testing the | 31 |
| emergency operations plan.
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| "HazMat team" means a career or volunteer mobile support | 33 |
| team that has been authorized by a unit of local government to | 34 |
| respond to hazardous materials emergencies and that is | 35 |
| primarily designed for emergency response to chemical or | 36 |
| biological terrorism, radiological emergencies, hazardous |
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| material spills, releases, or fires, or other contamination | 2 |
| events.
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| "Illinois Emergency Management Agency"
means the agency
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| established by this Act within the executive branch of State | 5 |
| Government
responsible for coordination of the overall | 6 |
| emergency management program of
the State and with private | 7 |
| organizations, political subdivisions, and the
federal | 8 |
| government.
Illinois Emergency Management Agency also means | 9 |
| the State
Emergency Response Commission responsible for the | 10 |
| implementation of Title
III of the Superfund Amendments and | 11 |
| Reauthorization Act of 1986.
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| "Mobile Support Team" means
a group of individuals | 13 |
| designated as a team by the Governor or Director to
train prior | 14 |
| to and to be
dispatched, if the Governor or the Director so | 15 |
| determines, to aid and reinforce
the State and political
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| subdivision emergency management efforts in response to a | 17 |
| disaster.
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| "Municipality" means any city, village, and incorporated | 19 |
| town.
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| "Political Subdivision" means any county, city, village, | 21 |
| or
incorporated town or township if the township is in a county | 22 |
| having a
population of more than 2,000,000.
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| "Principal Executive Officer" means chair
of the county | 24 |
| board, supervisor of a township if the township
is in a county | 25 |
| having a population of more than 2,000,000, mayor
of a city or | 26 |
| incorporated town,
president of a village,
or in their absence | 27 |
| or disability, the interim successor as
established under | 28 |
| Section 7 of the Emergency Interim
Executive Succession Act.
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| "Public health emergency" means an occurrence or imminent | 30 |
| threat of an
illness or health condition that:
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| (a) is believed to be caused by any of the following:
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| (i) bioterrorism;
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| (ii) the appearance of a novel or previously | 34 |
| controlled or eradicated
infectious agent or
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| biological toxin;
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| (iii) a natural disaster;
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| (iv) a chemical attack or accidental release; or
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| (v) a nuclear attack or accident; and
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| (b) poses a high probability of any of the following | 4 |
| harms:
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| (i) a large number of deaths in the affected | 6 |
| population;
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| (ii) a large number of serious or long-term | 8 |
| disabilities in the affected
population; or
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| (iii) widespread exposure to an infectious or | 10 |
| toxic agent that poses a
significant risk of | 11 |
| substantial future harm to a large number of people in | 12 |
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affected population.
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| "Technical rescue team" means a career or volunteer mobile | 14 |
| support team that has been authorized by a unit of local | 15 |
| government to respond to building collapse, high angle rescue, | 16 |
| and other specialized rescue emergencies and that is primarily | 17 |
| designated for emergency response to technical rescue events.
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| (Source: P.A. 93-249, eff. 7-22-03; 94-334, eff. 1-1-06.)
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