Illinois Emergency Management Agency Act (Illinois Compiled Statutes: 20 ILCS 3305)

This act regulates emergency management. It provides that, because of the possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from the explosion in this or in neighboring states of atomic or other means from without or by means of sabotage or other disloyal actions within, or from fire, flood, earthquake, telecommunications failure, or other natural or technological causes, and in order to insure that this State will be prepared to and will adequately deal with any disasters, preserve the lives and property of the people of this State and protect the public peace, health, and safety in the event of a disaster, it is found and declared to be necessary to create an Illinois Emergency Management Agency and to authorize emergency management programs within the political subdivisions of the State; to confer upon the Governor and upon the principal executive officer of the political subdivisions of the State the powers provided herein; and to provide for the rendering of mutual aid among the political subdivisions and taxing districts of the State and with other states and with respect to the carrying out of an emergency management program.