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Article 1 - Emergency Management Law
§ 33-15-1. Short title - This article may be cited as the "Mississippi Emergency Management...
§ 33-15-3. Policy and purpose - Because of the existing and increasing possibility of the occurrence...
§ 33-15-5. Definitions - The following words, whenever used in this article shall, unless...
§ 33-15-7. Mississippi Emergency Management Agency established; director and other personnel - There is hereby created within the executive branch of the...
§ 33-15-11. Emergency management powers of Governor - The Governor shall have general direction and control of the...
§ 33-15-13. Emergency powers of Governor - In the event of actual or impending enemy attack, as...
§ 33-15-14. Preparation and maintenance of state comprehensive emergency management plan - 2. The agency shall prepare an interim postdisaster response and...
§ 33-15-15. Mobile support units - The agency is authorized to provide, within or without the...
§ 33-15-17. Local organization of emergency management - Each county and municipality, or counties and the municipalities therein...
§ 33-15-19. Mutual aid arrangements - The governing body of a municipality or county of the...
§ 33-15-21. Immunity - Neither the state nor any political subdivision thereof, nor other...
§ 33-15-23. Funds - For the purpose of paying any expenses of its local...
§ 33-15-25. Matching funds - The Governor of the State of Mississippi is authorized to...
§ 33-15-27. Authority to accept services, gifts, grants and loans - Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof...
§ 33-15-29. Utilization of existing services and facilities - In carrying out the provisions of this article, the Governor...
§ 33-15-31. Orders, rules and regulations - The governing bodies of the political subdivisions of the state...
§ 33-15-33. Political activity prohibited - No individual employed by or for an organization for emergency...
§ 33-15-37. Enforcement - It shall be the duty of every organization for emergency...
§ 33-15-39. Peace officers - Any county or municipality, through its governing board, and with...
§ 33-15-41. Arrests - Any emergency management auxiliary policeman who has had conferred upon...
§ 33-15-43. Penalties - Any person violating any provision of this article or any...
§ 33-15-45. Local emergency management councils continued - All local emergency management councils heretofore created under the provisions...
§ 33-15-47. Liberality of construction - This article shall be construed liberally in order to effectuate...
§ 33-15-49. Emergency use of state or local personnel and equipment authorized; limitation of liability - In the event an impending enemy attack, an enemy attack,...
§ 33-15-51. Grand Gulf Disaster Assistance Trust Fund - The Grand Gulf Disaster Assistance Trust Fund is hereby created...
§ 33-15-53. State emergency coordination officers - The head of each state department, agency or commission shall...
Article 2 - Individual Assistance and Emergency Temporary Housing Act
§ 33-15-201. Short Title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 33-15-202. Legislative declaration of purpose - It is the intent of the Legislature and declared to...
§ 33-15-203. Definitions - The following words wherever used in this article shall, unless...
§ 33-15-205. Presidential declaration of emergency; power of Governor to accept assistance - Whenever the President of the United States, at the request...
§ 33-15-207. Filing request for federal assistance - In order to make federal Individual Assistance and Other Needs...
§ 33-15-215. Federal temporary housing authorized; powers of Governor - Whenever disaster conditions arise that affect the lives and safety...
§ 33-15-217. State temporary housing authorized; powers of state and political subdivisions - State Temporary Housing Assistance under this article may be made...
§ 33-15-219. Description of temporary housing - Temporary housing shall be limited to minimum accommodations necessary for...
§ 33-15-221. Conditions precedent for obtaining state temporary housing program assistance - When temporary housing assistance is provided based on the guidelines...
Article 5 - Disaster Assistance Act of 1993
§ 33-15-301. Short title - This article shall be known and may be cited as...
§ 33-15-303. Policy and intent - It is the intent and declared to be the policy...
§ 33-15-305. Definitions - The following terms shall have the meanings ascribed in this...
§ 33-15-308. Requisition of additional funds for Disaster Assistance Trust Fund to provide for disaster assistance - It is the intention of the Legislature that whenever the...
§ 33-15-315. Work performed by contract with state or local agency - Work performed by contract with a state or local agency...
Article 7 - Office of Disaster Assistance Coordination
§ 33-15-401. Legislative findings and declarations - The Legislature finds and declares the following: When a major...
§ 33-15-403. Office of Disaster Assistance Coordination established; duties and responsibilities - There is established within the Office of the Governor a...