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A government or division of government (i.e. on a municipal, provincial/state level) may declare that their area is in a state of emergency. This means that the government can suspend and/or change some functions of the executive, the legislative and/or the judiciary during this period of time.
Definition of state of emergency from the Collins English Dictionary Aspect When we use a verb, we often need to be able to refer to more than the time at which an event took place.