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SANTA CLARA COUNTY CODE OF ORDINANCES: Sec. A8-17. State of emergency; who may request conditions.

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Sec. A8-17. State of emergency; who may request conditions.

The Board of Supervisors, or if the Board is not in session, in the following priority order, the Board chair, County Executive, Assistant County Executive, or their designee operating as Director of Emergency Services in the County emergency operations center, may request the Governor to proclaim a state of emergency where the conditions of disaster, or of extreme peril to the safety of life and property within the County caused by such conditions as environmental disasters, air pollution, oil or chemical spill, fire, flood, storm, riot, earthquake or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of war emergency," which conditions, by reason of their magnitude, are likely to be beyond the control of the County, and require the forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat.

(Ord. No. NS-300.600, § 2, 5-13-97)

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