§ 10-14-5-1 — Purpose and authorities

ARTICLE I—Purpose and authorities.
This compact is made and entered into by and between the
participating member states which enact this compact, hereinafter
called party states. For the purposes of this compact, "states" means the
several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of
Columbia, and all U.S. territorial possessions.
The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance
among the states entering into this compact in managing any
emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the
affected state, whether arising from natural disaster, technological
hazard, man made disaster, civil emergency aspects of resources
shortages, community disorders, insurgency, or enemy attack.
This compact shall also provide for mutual cooperation in
emergency related exercises, testing, or other training activities using
equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the
giving and receiving of aid by party states or subdivisions of party
states during emergencies, such actions occurring outside actual
declared emergency periods. Mutual assistance in this compact may
include the use of the states' National Guard forces, either in
accordance with the National Guard Mutual Assistance Compact or by
mutual agreement between states.
[Pre-2003 Recodification Citation: 10-4-2.5-1.]

Legislative History

As added by P.L.2-2003, SEC.5.