<div class="chunk-title">Sec. 4-27. - Definitions.</div>
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               The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the
               meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates
               a different meaning:
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               <span class="ital">Attack</span> means direct or indirect assault against the county, its government or its environs,
               or of the nation, by the forces of a hostile nation or the agents thereof, including
               assault by bombing, conventional or nuclear, chemical or biological warfare, or sabotage.
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               <span class="ital">Director</span> means the director of the county emergency management agency, appointed as prescribed
               in this article.
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               <span class="ital">Disaster</span> includes but is not limited to actual or threatened enemy attack, sabotage, extraordinary
               fire, flood, storm, epidemic, or other impending or actual calamity endangering or
               threatening to endanger health, life or property or the constituted government.
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               <span class="ital">Emergency management</span> means those plans, actions and procedures necessary to provide protection to the
               people against loss of life, injury, and loss or damage to property caused by natural
               phenomena or manmade causes such as war, insurrection, riot or accidents; and those
               measures necessary to mitigate the effects of the destructive forces of man and nature,
               to provide for response to disaster conditions and for the relief of suffering and
               hardship resulting from such conditions, and to initiate rehabilitation of persons
               and restoration of essential services and acceptable standards of living.
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               <span class="ital">Emergency management forces</span> means the employees, equipment and facilities of all city and county departments,
               boards, councils, institutions and commissions; and, in addition, it shall include
               all volunteer personnel, equipment and facilities contributed by or obtained from
               volunteer persons or agencies.
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               <span class="ital">Emergency management volunteer</span> means any person duly registered, identified and appointed by the director of the
               county emergency management agency and assigned to participate in the emergency management
               activity.
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               <span class="ital">Regulations</span> includes plans, programs and other emergency procedures deemed essential to emergency
               management.
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               <span class="ital">Volunteer</span> means contributing a service, equipment, or facilities to the emergency management
               agency without renumeration.
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               (Ord. No. 76-02, Â§ 3, 11-15-76)
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            <p class="refcross0" block_type="hang"><b>Cross referenceâ€” </b>
               Definitions and rules of construction generally, <a href="" data-chunk-id="COOR_CH1GEPR_S1-2DERUCO" class="section-link" data-product-id="12207">Â§ 1-2</a>.
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