Code of Alabama - Title 31: Military Affairs and Civil Defense - Chapter 9 - Emergency Management

• Article 1 Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955.
• Section 31-9-1 Short title
  This chapter may be cited as the "Alabama Emergency Management Act of 1955."
• Section 31-9-2 Findings and declarations of necessity; purpose of article and public policy
  (a) Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters or emergencies of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage,...
• Section 31-9-3 Definitions
  As used in this article, these terms shall have the following meanings: (1) EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. The preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency...
• Section 31-9-4 State Emergency Management Agency; Director of Emergency Management
  (a) There is hereby created within the executive branch of the state government a department of emergency management, hereinafter called the "Emergency Management Agency," with...
• Section 31-9-6 Powers and duties of Governor with respect to emergency management
  In performing his or her duties under this article, the Governor is authorized and empowered: (1) To make, amend, and rescind the necessary orders, rules...
• Section 31-9-7 Mutual interstate aid agreements and compacts
  Repealed by Act 2015-70 effective April 21, 2015.
• Section 31-9-8 Emergency powers of Governor
  (a) The provisions of this section shall be operative only during the existence of a state of emergency, referred to hereinafter as one of the...
• Section 31-9-9 Powers and duties of directors of local emergency management organizations as to mutual aid agreements
  (a) The director of each local organization for emergency management may develop or cause to be developed mutual aid agreements with other public and private...
• Section 31-9-10 Local emergency management organizations; emergency powers of political subdivisions
  (a) Each political subdivision of this state is hereby authorized and directed to establish a local organization for emergency management in accordance with the state...
• Section 31-9-11 Powers, duties, etc., of employees of political subdivisions rendering outside aid
  Whenever the employees of any political subdivision are rendering outside aid pursuant to the authority contained in Section 31-9-10, such employees shall have the same...
• Section 31-9-12 Reimbursement of expenses of operation of mobile support units of other states; operation of Alabama mobile support units in other states
  (a) Whenever a mobile support unit of another state shall render aid in this state pursuant to the orders of the governor of its home...
• Section 31-9-13 Orders, rules and regulations of Governor - Effect; distribution
  All orders, rules, and regulations promulgated by the Governor as authorized by this article shall have the full force and effect of law when a...
• Section 31-9-14 Orders, rules, and regulations of Governor - Enforcement
  The law-enforcing authorities of the state and of the political subdivisions thereof shall enforce the orders, rules, and regulations issued pursuant to this article.
• Section 31-9-15 Orders, rules, and regulations of Governor - Enforcement - Arrests without warrant
  A peace officer, when in full and distinctive uniform or displaying a badge or other insignia of authority, may arrest without a warrant any person...
• Section 31-9-16 Immunity of state, etc., from liability for torts resulting from emergency management activities; exemptions of emergency management workers from license requirements; powers, duties, etc., of emergency management workers
  (a) All functions under this article and all other activities relating to emergency management are hereby declared to be governmental functions. (b) Neither the state...
• Section 31-9-17 Exemption from tort liability of persons granting license or privilege for use of real estate, etc., for shelters
  Any person owning or controlling real estate or other premises who voluntarily and without compensation grants a license or privilege, or otherwise permits the designation...
• Section 31-9-18 Governor, etc., may accept services, etc., from federal government, private persons, etc
  (a) Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof shall offer to the state, or through the state to any political subdivision thereof,...
• Section 31-9-19 Political activities by emergency management organizations
  No organization for emergency management established under the authority of this article shall participate in any form of political activity, nor shall it be employed...
• Section 31-9-20 Employment of subversives by emergency management organizations; loyalty oath
  No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any emergency management organization established under this article who advocates a change by force...
• Section 31-9-21 Compensation insurance for emergency management workers and trainees
  The Director of Emergency Management, upon recommendation of the Emergency Management Advisory Council, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized and empowered and may...
• Section 31-9-22 Penalties
  Any person violating any provision of this article or any rule, order, or regulation made pursuant to this article shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined...
• Section 31-9-23 Article to be liberally construed
  This article shall be construed liberally in order to effectuate its purpose.
• Section 31-9-24 Regular and emergency appropriations; state grants to political subdivisions
  (a) The funds appropriated by the Legislature in the general appropriation act for the support and maintenance of this article shall be expended solely for...
• Article 2 Emergency Management Assistance Compact.
• Section 31-9-40 Compact adopted and enacted
  The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is enacted into law and entered with all jurisdictions mutually adopting the compact in the form substantially as follows: THE...
• Article 3 Local Emergency Management Agency Assistance Fund.
• Section 31-9-60 Fund established; disbursements
  (a) There is established a Local Emergency Management Agency Assistance Fund to provide supplemental funding for local emergency management agencies created and operating under Section...
• Section 31-9-61 Certified local emergency management director
  (a) The following requirements are hereby established for the position of certified local emergency management director created herein: (1) Satisfactory completion of two years of...
• Section 31-9-62 Salary supplement; allocation of federal funds
  (a) Each state-recognized local emergency management agency that employs and retains a local emergency management director who completes the requirements to be a certified local...
• Article 4 Alabama Disaster Recovery Program.
• Section 31-9-80 Definitions
  As used in this article, the following terms shall have the following meanings: (1) COMMITTEE. The Alabama Disaster Recovery Program Committee. (2) RECOVERY FUND. The...
• Section 31-9-81 Program created; Statewide Emergency Notification System; Alabama Disaster Recovery Fund
  (a) There is created the Alabama Disaster Recovery Program for the purposes of providing financial assistance to eligible counties and municipalities for meeting local needs...
• Section 31-9-82 Committee
  (a) There is hereby established the Alabama Disaster Recovery Program Committee, which shall be convened solely for purposes provided under this article. The committee shall...
• Section 31-9-83 Distributions from fund; eligibility; purposes
  THIS SECTION WAS AMENDED BY ACT 2018-94 IN THE 2018 REGULAR SESSION, EFFECTIVE FEBRUARY 15, 2018. THIS IS NOT IN THE CURRENT CODE SUPPLEMENT. (a)...
• Section 31-9-84 Rules and regulations
  Unless extended by the committee, no later than 90 days following the appointment of the committee members, the Director of the Emergency Management Agency or...
• Section 31-9-85 Applications for assistance
  Unless an extension is granted by the committee, applications for assistance shall be submitted to the Emergency Management Agency by the county commission or municipality...
• Section 31-9-86 Program purposes; rules and procedures
  (a) In addition to the program purposes set out in Section 31-9-81, the Alabama Disaster Recovery Program shall also be available for the following purposes:...
• Section 31-9-87 Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund
  (a) Funds shall be appropriated by the Legislature to the Alabama Statewide Emergency Notification System Fund within the recovery fund for the purposes of establishing,...
• Article 5 Prefabricated Storm Shelters.
• Section 31-9-100 Applicability of Title 24 to certain prefabricated storm shelters; surety bond
  (a) Title 24 shall not apply to prefabricated storm shelters not equipped with electrical, plumbing, heating, or utility service lines, and which meet all of...
• Section 31-9-101 Oversight authority of Alabama Emergency Management Agency; random inspections
  The Alabama Emergency Management Agency shall have oversight authority on all storm shelters, both community and residential. The Alabama Emergency Management Agency may adopt administrative...
• Article 6 Surplus Property.
• Section 31-9-120 Receipt and disposition of surplus property offered to local emergency management agencies
  (a) The Alabama Emergency Management Agency may offer directly to any local emergency management agency of this state any used or obsolete equipment, supplies, or...

Last modified: May 3, 2021