2.48.020 Definitions.

As used in this article:

"City" means the city of American Canyon in the county of Napa, California as defined in Section 1.04.150 of this code.

"Coordinator" means the coordinator of emergency services of the city.

"Director" means the director of emergency services.

"Emergency" means the existence of a state of war emergency, state of emergency, or local emergency as hereinafter defined.

"Emergency council" means the city emergency council organized pursuant to the provision of Section 2.48.060 of this chapter.

"Emergency services organization" means all officers and employees of the city, all persons enrolled to aid such officers and employees during an emergency, and all officers and employees of public agencies, groups, organizations, or persons, who may, by agreement, or by operation of law, be charged with duties incident to the protection of life and property within the city during an emergency, or who may be impressed into service pursuant to law.

"Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence or threatened existence, of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territory of the city or within any portion thereof, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the service, personnel, equipment, and facilities of the city and require the combined forces of other public agencies to combat.

"State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within this state caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, or earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which conditions by reasons of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of any single city and require mutual aid forces or the combined forces of more than one public agency to combat.

"State of war emergency" means a condition with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor whenever this state or the United States is attacked by an enemy of the United States, or upon receipt by the state of California of a warning from the federal government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or imminent