Source: http://homelandsecurity.iowa.gov/proclamations/2014/PROC_2014_08_JUN30.html
Timestamp: 2017-07-20 12:52:20
Document Index: 687687212

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 29', '§ 1', '§ 29', '§ 29', '§ 5170', '§ 29', '§ 29']

Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management - Proclamation - June 30, 2014
WHEREAS, on June 26, 2014, and continuing thereafter, severe storm systems affected the state of Iowa; and WHEREAS, these storm systems caused severe weather, including damaging winds, straight-line winds, heavy rains, thunderstorms, flash flooding, flooding and tornadoes resulting in personal injury, significant damage to public and private property, power outages resulting from downed power lines and poles and large debris piles; and WHEREAS, the following five (5) Iowa counties suffered significant damage from this event: Adair, Cedar, Guthrie, Jones and Linn; and
WHEREAS, these conditions threaten the public peace, health, and safety of citizens of the State of Iowa and have damaged and destroyed public and private property. Because of this, they provide legal justification for the issuance of a Proclamation of a State of Disaster Emergency pursuant to Iowa Code § 29C.6 (1). NOW, THEREFORE, I, TERRY E. BRANSTAD, Governor of the State of Iowa, by the power and authority vested in me by the Iowa Constitution Art. IV, §§ 1, 8 and Iowa Code § 29C.6 (1), and all other applicable laws, do hereby proclaim a STATE OF DISASTER EMERGENCY for the following five (5) Iowa counties: Adair, Cedar, Guthrie, Jones and Linn and do hereby ORDER and DIRECT the following: SECTION ONE. As required by Iowa Code § 29C.6 (1), (10) and 42 U.S.C. § 5170 in cases of Presidential Disaster Declarations, this Proclamation of Disaster Emergency activates the disaster response and recovery aspect of the Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department’s Iowa Emergency Response Plan and those additional response plans applicable to the counties affected by this disaster and authorizes the use and deployment of all available state resources, supplies, equipment, and materials as are reasonably necessary to assist those citizens located in the disaster counties.
SECTION TWO. I authorize the Iowa Department of Human Services under the terms and conditions as allowed by Iowa law to render individual disaster assistance to eligible residents of the following two (2) Iowa counties who are affected by this disaster: Adair and Guthrie. Iowa Code § 29C.20A and 441 Iowa Admin. Code 58.2 (1).
SECTION THREE. This state of disaster emergency shall be effective on June 30, 2014, shall continue for thirty (30) days, and shall expire on July 30, 2014, unless sooner terminated or extended in writing by me. Iowa Code § 29C.6 (1).
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused the Great Seal of the State of Iowa to be affixed at Des Moines, Iowa, this thirtieth day of June in the year of our Lord Two Thousand Fourteen.