For the purpose of this article, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
EMERGENCY FUNCTIONS. Warning and communications services, relocation of persons from stricken areas, radiological defense, temporary restoration of utilities, plant protection, transportation, welfare, public works and engineering, search or rescue, health and medical services, law enforcement, firefighting, mass care, resource support, urban search or rescue, hazardous materials, food and energy information and planning and other activities necessary or incidental thereto.
EMERGENCY SERVICES. The preplanning necessary to carry out emergency functions, other than functions for which military force of federal agencies are primarily responsible, to prevent or minimize the loss of lives or property caused by disasters of every kind.
LOCAL EMERGENCY. The existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons or property within the territorial limits of the City of Apache Junction, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the city as determined by the Council and which require the combined efforts of other political subdivisions.
PRIVATE SECTOR. All industry, commerce, business or banking; all services other than those provided by the government; and all persons other than those in governmental agencies at any level.
STATE OF EMERGENCY. The duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons or property within the state caused by air pollution, fire, flood or floodwater, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake or other causes, except those resulting in a state of war emergency, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of any single county, city or town, and which require the combined efforts of the state and the political subdivision.
STATE OF WAR EMERGENCY. The condition which exists immediately whenever this nation is attacked or upon receipt by this state of warning from the federal government indicating that such an attack is imminent.
(Prior Code, § 2-16-1)