§ 10-14-3-9 — State emergency operations plan; local and interjurisdictional disaster plans

(a) The agency shall prepare and maintain a
current state emergency operations plan. The plan may provide for the
following:
(1) Prevention and minimization of injury and damage caused by
disaster.
(2) Prompt and effective response to disaster.
(3) Emergency relief.
(4) Identification of areas particularly vulnerable to disaster.
(5) Recommendations for:
(A) zoning;
(B) building;
(C) other land use controls;
(D) safety measures for securing mobile homes or other
nonpermanent or semipermanent structures; and
(E) other preventive and preparedness measures designed to
eliminate or reduce disaster or its impact;
that must be disseminated to both the fire prevention and building
safety commission and local authorities.
(6) Assistance to local officials in designing local emergency
action plans.
(7) Authorization and procedures for the erection or other
construction of temporary works designed to protect against or
mitigate danger, damage, or loss from flood, conflagration, or
other disaster.
(8) Preparation and distribution to the appropriate state and local
officials of state catalogs of federal, state, and private assistance
programs.
(9) Organization of manpower and chains of command.
(10) Coordination of federal, state, and local disaster activities.
(11) Coordination of the state disaster plan with the disaster plans
of the federal government.
(12) Other necessary matters.
(b) The agency shall take an integral part in the development and
revision of local and interjurisdictional disaster plans prepared under
section 17 of this chapter. The agency shall employ or otherwise secure
the services of professional and technical personnel capable of
providing expert assistance to political subdivisions, a political
subdivision's disaster agencies, and interjurisdictional planning and
disaster agencies. These personnel:
(1) shall consult with subdivisions and government agencies on
a regularly scheduled basis;
(2) shall make field examinations of the areas, circumstances, and
conditions to which particular local and interjurisdictional
disaster plans are intended to apply; and
(3) may suggest revisions.
(c) In preparing and revising the state disaster plan, the agency shall
seek the advice and assistance of local government, business, labor,
industry, agriculture, civic and volunteer organizations, and community
leaders. In advising local and interjurisdictional agencies, the agency
shall encourage local and interjurisdictional agencies to seek advice
from the sources specified in this subsection.
(d) The state disaster plan or any part of the plan may be
incorporated in rules of the agency or by executive orders.
(e) The agency shall do the following:
(1) Determine requirements of the state and political subdivisions
for food, clothing, and other necessities in the event of an
emergency.
(2) Procure and pre-position supplies, medicines, materials, and
equipment.
(3) Adopt standards and requirements for local and
interjurisdictional disaster plans.
(4) Provide for mobile support units.
(5) Assist political subdivisions, political subdivisions' disaster
agencies, and interjurisdictional disaster agencies to establish and
operate training programs and public information programs.
(6) Make surveys of industries, resources, and facilities in
Indiana, both public and private, necessary to carry out this
chapter.
(7) Plan and make arrangements for the availability and use of
any private facilities, services, and property, and if necessary and
if the private facilities, services, or property is used, provide for
payment for the use under agreed upon terms and conditions.
(8) Establish a register of persons with types of training and skills
important in emergency prevention, preparedness, response, and
recovery.
(9) Establish a register of mobile and construction equipment and
temporary housing available for use in a disaster emergency.
(10) Prepare, for issuance by the governor, executive orders,
proclamations, and regulations necessary or appropriate in coping
with disaster.
(11) Cooperate with the federal government and any public or
private agency or entity in achieving any purpose of this chapter
and in implementing programs for disaster prevention,
preparation, response, and recovery.
(12) Do other things necessary, incidental, or appropriate to
implement this chapter.
(f) The agency shall ascertain the rapid and efficient
communications that exist in times of disaster emergencies. The agency
shall consider the desirability of supplementing these communications
resources or of integrating these resources into a comprehensive
intrastate or state-federal telecommunications or other communications
system or network. In studying the character and feasibility of any
system, the agency shall evaluate the possibility of multipurpose use of
the system for general state and local governmental purposes. The
agency shall make appropriate recommendations to the governor.
(g) The agency shall assist political subdivisions in implementing
the intrastate mutual aid compact created by section 10.8 of this
chapter.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-4-1-5.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.5. Amended by P.L.205-2003, SEC.5; P.L.85-2015, SEC.2.