ACT: | The Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act, or IEMA. |
ADMINISTRATIVE CODE 301: | Title 29, Chapter I, Subchapter C, Part 301, which establishes requirements for emergency operations plans; exercises of emergency operations plans; accreditation and certification of ESDAs; workers' compensation coverage and workers' occupational diseases coverage for volunteers; and the emergency management assistance grant program. The provisions of this Part apply to all emergency services and disaster agencies established pursuant to the Act. |
COORDINATOR: | The staff assistant to the Village Manager with the duty of coordinating the emergency management programs of the Village. |
DISASTER: | An occurrence or threat of widespread or severe damage, injury or loss of life or property resulting from any natural or technological cause, including but not limited to fire, flood, earthquake, wind, storm, hazardous materials spill or other water contamination requiring emergency action to avert danger or damage, epidemic, air contamination, blight, extended periods of severe and inclement weather, drought, infestation, critical shortages of essential fuels and energy, explosion, riot, or hostile military or paramilitary action. |
EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT: | The efforts of the federal, state, and local governments to develop, plan, analyze, conduct, implement and maintain programs for disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery. |
EMERGENCY OPERATIONS PLAN: | The written plan of the Village and its departments and other stakeholders describing the organization, mission, and functions of the village government and supporting services for responding to and recovering from disasters. |
EMERGENCY SERVICES: | The coordination of such functions by the Village and other political subdivision, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, as may be necessary or proper to prevent, minimize, repair, and alleviate injury and damage resulting from any natural or technological causes. These functions include, without limitation, direction and control, communications, warning/emergency information, public information, disaster intelligence/damage assessment, evacuation, mass care, health and medical, mortuary services, resource management and other functions related to civilian protection, together with all other activities necessary or incidental to protecting life or property. |
EMERGENCY SERVICES AND DISASTER AGENCY: | The agency established by the Village Code within the Village of Oak Brook to coordinate the Emergency Management Program within its jurisdiction and with private organizations, other political subdivisions, the state and federal governments. |
ILLINOIS EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY or IEMA: | The agency established by the Act within the executive branch of State Government responsible for coordination of the overall emergency management program of the State and with private organizations, political subdivisions, and the federal government. |
MOBILE SUPPORT TEAM: | The utilization of personnel to be dispatched by the Governor, or, if he/she so authorizes the IEMA Director, to supplement local political subdivisions for emergency management programs in response to a disaster. |
MUNICIPALITY: | Any city, village, or incorporated town. |
NATIONAL INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (NIMS): | Emergency management in the United States is done at the local and state level. The Department of Homeland Security has standardized equipment, organizational structures, and terminology to create better response and preparedness to large- and small-scale disasters across the country. The NIMs is a collection of principles and methods that is utilized by local, state, federal emergency managers as well as the private sector and NGOs. NIMS aims to improve the nation’s response to emergencies. Its goal is a better system that can more efficiently allocate resources in the event of a disaster and facilitate cooperation among diverse entities and agencies. |
POLITICAL SUBDIVISION: | Any county, city, village, incorporated town, or township if the township is in a county having a population of more than two million (2,000,000). |
PRINCIPAL EXECUTIVE OFFICER: | Chairman of the county board, supervisor of a township if the township is in a county having a population of more than two million (2,000,000), mayor of a city or incorporated town, president of a village, or in their absence or disability, the interim successor as established pursuant to Section 7 of the Emergency Interim Executive Succession Act. (Ord. G-1252, 2-27-2024) |