Law on protection of population and civil protection in the Canton of Aargau (Population and Civil Protection Law).

The present Law implements the Federal Act of 4 October 2002 on the same subject. In particular, the Law regulates the organization and competences, as well as tasks and financing of the Canton Aargau in the field of population protection and civil protection. Article 2 contains the definition of terms like “disaster”, “emergency situations”, “severe emergencies“, “armed conflicts”. The text consists of 54 articles divided into 8 Parts as follows: General provisions (1); Population protection (2); Civil protection (3); Protection of cultural property (4); National economic supply (5); Financing (6); Liability and legal protection (7); Transitional and final provisions (8).