§ 19-13-103 — Legislative determination; coordination with federal government and other states

Wyoming § 19-13-103

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 19: Defense Forces and Affairs
• Ch. 13: WYOMING OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY
• Art. 1: IN GENERAL

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(a) Because of the possibility of the occurrence of
disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting
from enemy attack, sabotage, terrorism, civil disorder or other
hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake, other natural
causes and other technological disasters, and to insure that
preparations of Wyoming will be adequate to deal with such
disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and
to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve
the lives and property of the people of Wyoming, it is hereby
found and declared to be necessary:
(i) To create a Wyoming office of homeland security
within the governor's office, and to authorize the creation of
local homeland security programs in the political subdivisions
of the state;
(ii) To confer upon the governor and upon the
executive heads or governing bodies of the political
subdivisions of the state the emergency powers provided herein,
and to provide for state assistance in the organization and
maintenance of the homeland security programs of such political
subdivisions;
(iii) To provide for the assignment of specific
responsibilities to all state agencies to be performed during a
disaster or national emergency and for the coordination and
direction of the emergency actions of such agencies; and
(iv) To provide for the rendering of mutual aid among
the political subdivisions of the state and with other states
with respect to the carrying out of homeland security functions.
(b) It is further declared to be the purpose of this act
and the policy of Wyoming that all homeland security functions
of this state be coordinated to the maximum extent with the
comparable functions of its political subdivisions, of the
federal government including its various departments and
agencies, of other states and localities, and of private
agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective
preparation and use may be made of the manpower, resources and
facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.