§ 3 — Definitions

§ 3. Definitions. As used in this act the following terms shall mean\nand include:\n 1. "Agency." An office, department, division, bureau, board or\ncommission of the state or of a political subdivision thereof, including\nvolunteer agencies.\n 2. "Attack." Any attack, actual or imminent, or series of attacks by\nan enemy or a foreign nation upon the United States causing, or which\nmay cause, substantial damage or injury to civilian property or persons\nin the United States in any manner by sabotage or by the use of bombs,\nshellfire, or nuclear, radiological, chemical, bacteriological, or\nbiological means or other weapons or processes.\n 3. "City director." The director of civil defense heading a city\noffice.\n 4. "City office." A city office of civil defense or a consolidated\ncity office of civil defense.\n 5. "Civil defense." All those activities and measures designed or\nundertaken (l) to minimize the effects upon the civilian population\ncaused or which would be caused by an attack, (2) to deal with the\nimmediate emergency conditions which would be created by any such\nattack, and (3) to effectuate emergency repairs to, or the emergency\nrestoration of, vital utilities and facilities destroyed or damaged by\nany such attack. Such term shall include, but shall not be limited to,\n(A) measures to be taken in preparation for anticipated attack\n(including the establishment of appropriate organizations, operational\nplans, and the supporting agreements; the recruitment and training of\npersonnel; the conduct of research; the procurement and stockpiling of\nmaterials necessary to the survival, recovery and rehabilitation of the\nstate and of its inhabitants; the provision of suitable warning systems;\nthe construction or preparation of shelters and control centers;\nprovisions for the continuity of state and local governments; and, when\nappropriate, the non-military evacuation of civil population); (B)\nmeasures to be taken during attack (including the enforcement of passive\ndefense regulations prescribed by duly established military or civil\nauthorities; the movement of personnel to shelters; the control of\ntraffic and panic; and the control and use of lighting and civil\ncommunications); and (C) measures to be taken following attack\n(including but not limited to activities for fire fighting; rescue,\nemergency medical, health and sanitation services; monitoring for\nradiation and other specific hazards of special weapons; decontamination\nprocedures; unexploded bomb reconnaissance; essential debris clearance;\nemergency welfare measures; immediately essential emergency repair or\nrestoration of damaged vital facilities; the implementation of the means\nand methods for the recovery and rehabilitation of the state; effective\nutilization of all persons and materials; care and shelter for those\nmade homeless; distribution of stockpiled food, water, medical supplies,\nmachinery and other equipment; the preservation of raw materials; the\nrestoration of essential community services, industrial and\nmanufacturing capacity, and commercial and financial activities in the\nstate; and the resumption of educational programs).\n 6. "Civil defense forces." Agencies, public officers, employees, and\nenrolled civil defense volunteers, all having duties and\nresponsibilities under or pursuant to this act in connection with civil\ndefense.\n 7. "Commission." The state civil defense commission created by article\nthree of this act.\n 8. "Communication facility" or "communication device" shall not mean\nor include a newspaper.\n 9. "Council." The New York state defense council created by article\ntwo of this act.\n 10. "County director." The director of civil defense heading a county\noffice.\n 11. "County office." A county office of civil defense or a\nconsolidated county office of civil defense.\n l2. "Defense effort." The preparation of the United States and other\nnations cooperating with it for defense against attack and for the\nconduct of war.\n l3. "Defense emergency." The period beginning with the effective date\nof this act and ending upon the termination of the national emergency as\nproclaimed by the president of the United States on December sixteenth,\nnineteen hundred fifty.\n 14. "Drill." Any duly authorized activity of the state civil defense\ncommission or a local office of civil defense, or subdivision, service\nor unit thereof, with or without the participation of the general\npublic, held in training or preparation for enemy attack or for\nrehabilitation and recovery procedures following an attack. Drill is\nsynonymous with authorized test, training, or training or practice\nexercise. Drill includes assistance by civil defense forces in combating\nnatural or peacetime disasters upon the direction of a public officer\nauthorized by law to call upon a civil defense director for assistance\nin protecting human life or property.\n 15. "Facilities." Buildings, shelters, utilities, and land.\n 16. "Fallout shelter." A building, structure or other real property,\nor an area or portion thereof, so constructed, altered or improved as to\nprovide protection against harmful radiation resulting from radioactive\nfallout in accordance with the plan, regulations or orders of the\ncommission pertaining thereto, including such plumbing, heating,\nelectrical, ventilating, conditioning, filtrating and refrigerating\nequipment and other mechanical additions or installations, if any, as\nmay be an integral part thereof.\n 17. "Law." A general or special statute, law, city or village charter,\nlocal law, ordinance, resolution, rule, regulation, order or rule of\ncommon law.\n 18. "Local director." A county director or a city director.\n 19. "Local office." A county office or a city office.\n 20. "Materials." Raw materials, food, water, supplies, medicines,\nmachinery, equipment, component parts and technical information and\nprocesses necessary for civil defense.\n 21. "Municipal agency." An agency of a political subdivision\nresponsible for police, fire, sanitation, public works, street, sewer,\nwater, health, emergency or other services involving duties and\nresponsibilities in connection with civil defense.\n 22. "Political subdivision." A county, town, city, village, school\ndistrict or other district, district corporation or public benefit\ncorporation.\n 23. "Shelter." A building, structure or other real property, or an\narea or portion thereof, which is to be used for the protection of\npersons during or after an attack, including such services, utilities\nand equipment, if any, as may be an integral part thereof.\n 24. "State director." The New York state director of civil defense.\n 25. "Volunteer agencies." Agencies sponsored or authorized by the\ncommission or local offices of civil defense the personnel of which are\nin major part selected from among volunteer persons serving without\ncompensation and may include wardens, shelter captains, warning\nservices, auxiliary police, auxiliary firemen, bomb squads, radiological\nunits and personnel, rescue squads, emergency medical units and other\nmedical forces, nurses' aides, repair crews, monitoring and\ndecontamination squads, demolition crews and all other similar forces\nand services having duties and responsibilities in connection with civil\ndefense.\n