Civil Defense (Missouri Revisor of Statutes: Title V Military Affairs and Police; Chapter 44)

This chapter of the Missouri Revisor of Statutes concerns civil defense and emergency management. Specifically, it creates within the department of public safety, the "State Emergency Management Agency", for the general purpose of assisting in coordination of national, state and local activities related to emergency functions by coordinating response, recovery, planning and mitigation; and authorizes and empowers the governor: (1) to make, amend, and rescind the necessary orders, rules, and regulations; (2) to require and direct the cooperation and assistance of agencies and officials of the state, economic and geographic areas, and local political subdivisions to assist in performance of emergency functions; (3) on behalf of this state, to enter into mutual aid arrangements with other states, and to coordinate mutual aid plans between political subdivisions, and economic and geographic areas of this state, and of this state and other states; (4) to delegate any administrative authority vested in the governor and to provide for the sub-delegation of this authority; (5) to see that, unless prohibited by law, any political subdivision may appropriate funds, or contribute services, personnel and facilities to special committees, subcommittees or task groups organized for the economic or geographic area within which it is situated; (6) to cooperate with the president, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, executive office of the president, other appropriate federal officers and agencies, and the officers and agencies of other states; and (7) to create, establish and appoint such volunteer disaster or state agency committees or both as may be needed to assemble and evaluate information which deals with emergency matters.