California Code
CHAPTER 1 - General Provisions
Section 3211.9.

3211.9. “Disaster council” means a public agency established by ordinance which is empowered to register and direct the activities of disaster service workers within the area of the county, city, city and county, or any part thereof, and is thus, because of such registration and direction, acting as an instrumentality of the state in aid of the carrying out of the general governmental functions and policy of the state.

(Amended by Stats. 1971, Ch. 38.)