ARTICLE 1. General Provisions and Definitions

Article 1 added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 290.

§§ 8680–8680.9 · 9 sections

• § 8680 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the California Disaster Assistance Act.
• § 8680.1 Unless the provision or context otherwise requires, the definitions contained in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
• § 8680.2 “Local agency” means any city, city and county, county, county office of education, community college district, school district, or special district.
• § 8680.3 “Disaster” means a fire, flood, storm, tidal wave, earthquake, terrorism, epidemic, or other similar public calamity that the Governor determines presents a…
• § 8680.4 “Project” means the repair or restoration, or both, other than normal maintenance, or the replacement of, real property of a local agency used for essential…
• § 8680.5 “Project application” means the written application made by a local agency to the director for state financial assistance, which shall include all damage to…
• § 8680.7 “Director” means the Director of Emergency Services.
• § 8680.8 “State agency” means the Department of Transportation, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of General Services, the Department of Health, the…
• § 8680.9 “Local emergency” means a condition of extreme peril to persons or property proclaimed as such by the governing body of the local agency affected, in…