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2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-102 - Definitions.

19-13-102. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "County or county-city program" means a program created in accordance with the provisions of this act by the state or a political subdivision to perform local homeland security functions;
(ii) "Homeland security" means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions essential to the recovery and restoration of the economy by supply and resupply of resources to meet urgent survival and military needs, other than functions for which armed forces are primarily responsible, necessary to deal with disasters caused by enemy attack, sabotage, terrorism, civil disorder or other hostile action, or by fire, flood, earthquake, other natural causes and other technological, industrial, civil and political events. These functions include without limitation the coordination of fire-fighting services, police services, medical and health services, rescue, engineering, attack warning services, communications, radiological events, evacuation of persons from stricken areas, emergency welfare services (civilian war aid), emergency transportation, existing or properly assigned functions of plant protection, temporary restoration of public utility services, mitigation activities in areas threatened by natural or technological hazards, and other functions related to civilian protection, together with all other activities necessary or incidental to the preparation for any carrying out of the foregoing functions;
(iii) "Emergency support task force" means a homeland security organization created in accordance with the provisions of this act by the state or a political subdivision to supplement homeland security programs in a stricken area;
(iv) "Political subdivision" means an incorporated community or a county in Wyoming;
(v) "Director" means the director, office of homeland security appointed pursuant to W.S. 19-13-104;
(vi) "Public safety agencies" means any federal, state or political subdivision entity that provides emergency and public safety services, including state agencies employing peace officers enumerated in W.S. 6-1-104(a)(vi)(C) through (F) and approved for participation by the commission, fire management services, correctional services, homeland security, emergency and disaster relief services and if desired by county, municipal and federal law enforcement agencies;
(vii) "Ammunition" means a cartridge, shell or other device containing explosive or incendiary material designed and intended for use in a firearm;
(viii) "Firearm" means any weapon which will or is designed to expel any projectile by the action of an explosive.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-103 - Legislative Determination; Coordination With Federal Government and Other States.

19-13-103. Legislative determination; coordination with federal government and other states.
(a) Because of the possibility of the occurrence of disasters of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from enemy attack, sabotage, terrorism, civil disorder or other hostile action, or from fire, flood, earthquake, other natural causes and other technological disasters, and to insure that preparations of Wyoming will be adequate to deal with such disasters, and generally to provide for the common defense and to protect the public peace, health and safety, and to preserve the lives and property of the people of Wyoming, it is hereby found and declared to be necessary:
(i) To create a Wyoming office of homeland security within the governor's office, and to authorize the creation of local homeland security programs in the political subdivisions of the state;
(ii) To confer upon the governor and upon the executive heads or governing bodies of the political subdivisions of the state the emergency powers provided herein, and to provide for state assistance in the organization and maintenance of the homeland security programs of such political subdivisions;
(iii) To provide for the assignment of specific responsibilities to all state agencies to be performed during a disaster or national emergency and for the coordination and direction of the emergency actions of such agencies; and
(iv) To provide for the rendering of mutual aid among the political subdivisions of the state and with other states with respect to the carrying out of homeland security functions.
(b) It is further declared to be the purpose of this act and the policy of Wyoming that all homeland security functions of this state be coordinated to the maximum extent with the comparable functions of its political subdivisions, of the federal government including its various departments and agencies, of other states and localities, and of private agencies of every type, to the end that the most effective preparation and use may be made of the manpower, resources and facilities for dealing with any disaster that may occur.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-107 - Emergency Support Task Forces.

19-13-107. Emergency support task forces.
(a) The governor or his duly authorized representative and the governing bodies of political subdivisions may create and establish such number of emergency support task forces as necessary to reinforce homeland security programs in stricken areas with due consideration of the plans of the federal government and of other states. The governor or governing body of the political subdivision shall appoint for each unit a coordinator who has primary responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the unit. Emergency support task forces shall be activated upon orders of the governor or governing body of the political subdivisions and shall perform their functions in any part of the state, or upon conditions specified in this section, in other states. The governor may remove any emergency support task force member he appoints as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
(b) Personnel of emergency support task forces while on duty, whether within or without the state, under orders of the governor shall be paid as follows:
(i) If they are employees of the state or a political subdivision of the state, they shall continue to be paid by their employers and receive the same pay and have the same powers, duties, rights, privileges and immunities, including their rights under the Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act incident to employment;
(ii) Personnel of emergency support task forces who are not employees of the state or a political subdivision thereof, while on duty, whether within or without the state, shall be paid the current rate established by the United States department of labor in its area wage determination scale for skilled, semiskilled and unskilled workers. The wage determination shall be based upon that normally established and obtained through the office of the district engineer, corps of engineers, Omaha, Nebraska, as determined in the particular area of the state wherein the work is being or to be performed. Acceptance by the proper hiring authority of any volunteer and his services will constitute qualification of his skill and craft as set out in the wage determination scale, and the volunteer is entitled to the same rights and immunities as are provided by law for the employees of the state. In the event of injury, disability or death, such personnel shall be entitled to compensation at the same rates as provided by the Wyoming Worker's Compensation Act for like injuries, disabilities or death.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-108 - Local Programs; Authorized; Local Homeland Security Plan; Coordinators; Appointment and Removal.

19-13-108. Local programs; authorized; local homeland security plan; coordinators; appointment and removal.
Each political subdivision of this state shall establish a local homeland security program in accordance with the state homeland security plan and program. Each political subdivision through the homeland security program will cause to be prepared a local homeland security plan which will include actions essential to the recovery and restoration of the economy by supply and resupply of resources to meet urgent survival and military needs and to provide for the ongoing management of resources available to meet continuing survival and recovery needs. Each local homeland security program shall have a coordinator appointed by the governor upon the recommendation of the local jurisdiction. The coordinator has direct responsibility for the organization, administration and operation of the local homeland security program subject to the direction and control of the local jurisdiction under the general direction of the governor. The governor may remove any coordinator as provided in W.S. 9-1-202.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-109 - Local Programs; Reciprocal and Mutual Aid.

19-13-109. Local programs; reciprocal and mutual aid.
(a) The local coordinators in collaboration with other public and private agencies within this state will develop or cause to be developed mutual aid arrangements for reciprocal homeland security aid and assistance in case of disaster of extreme nature which affects two (2) or more political subdivisions or is too great to be dealt with unassisted. The arrangements shall be consistent with the state homeland security plan and program, and in time of emergency each local homeland security program shall render assistance in accordance with the provisions of the mutual aid arrangements.
(b) The coordinator of each local homeland security program with the approval of the governor, may enter into mutual aid arrangements with homeland security agencies or organizations in other states for reciprocal emergency aid and assistance in case of disaster too great to be dealt with unassisted.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-110 - Funds, Supplies and Equipment; Generally.

19-13-110. Funds, supplies and equipment; generally.
(a) Each political subdivision may make appropriations for the payment of expenses of its local homeland security programs.
(b) Whenever the federal government or any agency or officer thereof or any person, firm or corporation shall offer to the state or to any political subdivision thereof services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds by way of gift, grant or loan for purposes of disaster relief or homeland security, the state acting through the governor, or the political subdivision acting with the consent of the governor and through its executive officer or governing body, may accept the offer. Upon acceptance the governor of the state or executive officer or governing body of the political subdivision may authorize any officer of the state or of the political subdivision to receive the services, equipment, supplies, materials or funds on behalf of the state or the political subdivisions. This authority will include participation in the federal surplus property program. All funds received from the federal government or any agency thereof shall be deposited in an appropriate separate account together with funds appropriated by a political subdivision, and expenditures from the account shall be made only upon authority of the local governing body and only for the purposes specified in this act.
(c) The board of county commissioners in any county may levy a tax for the support and maintenance of county, city, town, county-city or county-town homeland security programs.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-111 - Funds, Supplies and Equipment; Authority to Make Use of Existing Facilities.

19-13-111. Funds, supplies and equipment; authority to make use of existing facilities.
In carrying out the provisions of this act, the governor and the executive officers or governing bodies of the political subdivisions of the state are directed to utilize the services, equipment, supplies and facilities of existing departments, offices and agencies of the state and of the political subdivisions thereof to the maximum extent practicable, and the officers and personnel of all departments, offices and agencies are directed to cooperate with and extend such services and facilities to the governor, the director and the homeland security programs throughout the state upon request.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-112 - Programs Barred From Political Activity.

19-13-112. Programs barred from political activity.
No homeland security program established under the authority of this act shall participate in any form of political activity or be employed directly or indirectly for political purposes.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-114 - Persons Advocating Change by Force or Violence in Form of Government Prohibited From Employment or Association; Oath.

19-13-114. Persons advocating change by force or violence in form of government prohibited from employment or association; oath.
(a) No person shall be employed or associated in any capacity in any homeland security program established under this act:
(i) Who advocates or has advocated a change by force or violence in the constitutional form of the government of the United States or of this state, or the overthrow of any government in the United States by force or violence; or
(ii) Who has been convicted of or is under indictment or information charging any subversive act against the United States.
(b) Each person appointed to serve in a homeland security program, before entering upon his duties, shall take an oath in writing before a person authorized to administer oaths in this state, substantially as follows:
"I .... do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the constitution of the United States and the constitution of the state of Wyoming against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties on which I am about to enter."
"And I do further swear (or affirm) that I do not advocate, nor am I a member or an affiliate of any organization, group or combination of persons that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence; and that during such time as I am a member of the (name of homeland security program) I will not advocate nor become a member of any political party or organization that advocates the overthrow of the government of the United States or of this state by force or violence."
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-115 - Admission of Professional Personnel of Other States in Emergency.

19-13-115. Admission of professional personnel of other states in emergency.
In the event disaster conditions in Wyoming require visitation to this state by homeland security personnel from other states, including physicians, dentists, veterinarians, nurses or other professional personnel, reciprocity by way of allowing those professional persons to practice their professional talents without the normal admissions to practice in this state during the period of the emergency, is allowed.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-116 - Enforcement of Orders, Rules and Regulations.

19-13-116. Enforcement of orders, rules and regulations.
Every homeland security program established pursuant to this act and the officers thereof shall execute and enforce orders, rules and regulations made by the governor under authority of this act. Each organization shall have available for inspection at its office all orders, rules and regulations made by the governor or under his authority.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 1 - In General › Section 19-13-117 - Lifesaver Programs; Process for Grants; Administration; Account Established; Rules; Grant Criteria.

19-13-117. Lifesaver programs; process for grants; administration; account established; rules; grant criteria.
(a) The office of homeland security shall administer a lifesaver program to provide grants to counties for search and rescue designed to quickly find a person suffering from Down syndrome, brain injuries, autism, Alzheimer's or other dementia related disorders who wanders and becomes lost and missing. The program shall operate on a county basis, under which participants wear transmitters to allow the county sheriff's departments to electronically locate participants if necessary.
(b) The office of homeland security shall establish by rule and regulation an application procedure and calendar for grants under this section and adopt other rules as necessary to implement this section.
(c) In administering this program, the office of homeland security and counties shall establish a policy of including private sector participants to the fullest extent possible unless a viable private sector solution does not exist.
(d) Grant applications shall include, but not be limited to:
(i) An estimate of the number of people who might qualify for assistance in the county;
(ii) An estimate of the startup cost;
(iii) A statement of the number of personnel available for tracking lost persons; and
(iv) A statement of the local resources available to support ongoing operation of a lifesaver program.
(e) The office of homeland security shall provide grants, subject to the following:
(i) Grants to any one (1) county shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000.00) of state funds in any calendar year;
(ii) The director of the office of homeland security shall prioritize the grant awards in accordance with the respective needs of each county for tracking services and the availability of local funding sources, as documented in the applications submitted.
(f) A grant recipient under this section shall use the grant monies only for startup costs associated with the contracting or purchasing of emergency response kits or services which shall include equipment and services necessary to track and triangulate searches, as well as transmitters or any other related equipment.
(g) The lifesaver program account is created. The account shall consist of those funds appropriated to the account by the legislature and all monies received from federal grants and other contributions, grants, gifts, transfers, bequests and donations to the account. The office of homeland security is specifically empowered to accept grants, gifts, transfers, bequests and donations to the account. Funds in the account shall only be expended by the office of homeland security for the purpose of providing grants under this section.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-202 - Definitions.

19-13-202. Definitions.
(a) As used in this act:
(i) "Emergency medical care provider" means a local government subdivision or other entity, whether public or private, which provides emergency medical services;
(ii) "Fire protection service" means a paid or volunteer fire department, fire company or other fire suppression entity organized under the laws of this state, any party state or an agency of the government of the United States;
(iii) "Local government subdivision" means the local governmental entity, other than state government, including but not limited to incorporated towns, cities and counties;
(iv) "Mutual aid agreement" or "agreement" means an agreement, consistent with the purposes of this act, by one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers or local government subdivisions of this state with one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of any other state or the United States;
(v) "Party emergency service" means a fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program, local government subdivision or agency of the United States that is a party to a mutual aid agreement as set forth in this act;
(vi) "This act" means W.S. 19-13-201 through 19-13-210.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-203 - Authorization to Enter Agreement; General Content; Authority.

19-13-203. Authorization to enter agreement; general content; authority.
(a) Any one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivision of this state may enter into a mutual aid agreement with any one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of any other state or the United States to provide emergency services to the area covered by the agreement. The agreement shall be authorized and approved by the governing body of each party to the agreement that is not an agency of the United States government.
(b) The agreement shall fully set forth the powers, rights and obligations of the parties to the agreement.
(c) A mutual aid agreement shall grant a fire protection service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider of this state authority to operate outside of the state and shall grant authority for a fire protection service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider of another state or the United States to operate within this state as if the fire service, homeland security program or emergency medical care provider were organized and operated under the laws of this state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-204 - Detailed Content of Agreement.

19-13-204. Detailed content of agreement.
(a) The agreement authorized by W.S. 19-13-203 shall specify the following:
(i) The purpose of the agreement;
(ii) The precise organization, composition and nature of any separate legal entity created by the agreement;
(iii) The duration of the agreement;
(iv) The manner of financing the agreement and establishing and maintaining a budget therefor;
(v) Provision for administering the agreement;
(vi) The exact chain of command or delegation of authority to be followed by party emergency services acting under the provisions of the agreement;
(vii) The manner of acquiring, holding and disposing of real and personal property used in the agreement;
(viii) The method to be employed in accomplishing the partial or complete termination of the agreement and for disposing of property upon partial or complete termination; and
(ix) The nature, extent and amount of insurance coverage for acts or omissions and delineation of each party's responsibility for that coverage.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-205 - Submission of Agreement to Attorney General.

19-13-205. Submission of agreement to attorney general.
(a) Before becoming effective, the agreement shall be submitted to and receive the approval of the state attorney general.
(b) The attorney general shall approve an agreement submitted to him under this act unless he finds that it is not in proper form, does not meet the requirements set forth in this act, or otherwise does not conform to the laws of this state. If he disapproves an agreement, he shall provide a detailed written statement to the appropriate governing bodies of the fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs and local government subdivisions.
(c) If the attorney general does not disapprove an agreement within sixty (60) days after its submission to him, it is considered approved.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-206 - Filing of Agreement.

19-13-206. Filing of agreement.
(a) Within twenty (20) days after approval by the attorney general, an agreement made pursuant to this act shall be filed in the office of:
(i) Each clerk and recorder of each county of this state where the principal office of one (1) of the parties to the agreement is located; and
(ii) The secretary of state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-207 - Agreement Not to Relieve Agency of Duties.

19-13-207. Agreement not to relieve agency of duties.
No agreement made under this act may relieve any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state of a duty imposed upon it by law. Timely performance of a duty created by a mutual aid agreement may be offered in satisfaction of the duty.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-208 - Limitation of Powers.

19-13-208. Limitation of powers.
Except for the right granted by this act to jointly exercise powers, this act does not authorize any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state to exercise a power that it is not otherwise authorized to exercise.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-209 - Right of State in Actions Involving Agreements.

19-13-209. Right of state in actions involving agreements.
In any case or controversy involving performance or interpretation of or liability under a mutual aid agreement entered into between one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of this state and one (1) or more fire protection services, emergency medical care providers, homeland security programs or local government subdivisions of another state or of the United States, the parties to the agreement are the real parties in interest. This state may maintain an action against any fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision whose default, failure, performance or other conduct caused or contributed to a loss or liability incurred by the state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 2 - Emergency Services Mutual Aid › Section 19-13-210 - Authorization to Appropriate Funds for Purpose of Agreement.

19-13-210. Authorization to appropriate funds for purpose of agreement.
A fire protection service, emergency medical care provider, homeland security program or local government subdivision of this state may appropriate funds for and may sell, lease or otherwise supply material to any entity created for the purpose of performance of an agreement and may provide such personnel or services therefor as are within its authority to furnish.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 3 - Search and Rescue Operations › Section 19-13-301 - Search and Rescue Account; Created; Expenditures.

19-13-301. Search and rescue account; created; expenditures.
(a) The search and rescue account is created. Fees identified in W.S. 23-2-101, 23-2-201, 31-2-404, 31-2-409, 31-2-703, 41-13-109 and 41-13-110 shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of this account.
(b) Revenues deposited within the search and rescue account shall be expended by the Wyoming office of homeland security to reimburse counties for costs directly incurred in a specific search and rescue operation, subject to W.S. 19-13-302 and rules and regulations adopted by the Wyoming search and rescue council. Expenditures for reimbursement pursuant to this subsection shall receive priority over all other authorized account expenditures. No revenues deposited within the account shall be used to reimburse counties for any salary or benefits normally paid to its employees.
(c) Subject to subsection (b) of this section, the Wyoming office of homeland security may expend revenues available within the search and rescue account for other search and rescue program purposes including:
(i) Administration of the Wyoming search and rescue program;
(ii) Search and rescue training programs for Wyoming search and rescue personnel;
(iii) Acquisition and maintenance of search and rescue equipment used in Wyoming;
(iv) Development and maintenance of statewide search and rescue overhead teams.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 3 - Search and Rescue Operations › Section 19-13-302 - Search and Rescue Account Administration.

19-13-302. Search and rescue account administration.
(a) Any county sheriff's office in this state may make a claim on the search and rescue account for reimbursement of costs directly incurred in the performance of search and rescue activities. Any claim made pursuant to this subsection shall be submitted to the Wyoming office of homeland security. Upon receipt, the Wyoming office of homeland security shall transmit the claim to the Wyoming search and rescue council for review and action in accordance with subsection (b) of this section.
(b) The Wyoming search and rescue council shall review and act upon all claims submitted under subsection (a) of this section no later than June 30 following the year in which expenses were incurred for the claim submitted. If there are insufficient funds to pay all approved claims, the Wyoming office of homeland security shall prorate reimbursement among all approved claims. Payments authorized through the Wyoming office of homeland security pursuant to this section shall be paid by the state treasurer by warrant issued by the state auditor upon vouchers signed by the director, Wyoming office of homeland security or his designee.
(c) Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 146, 3.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 3 - Search and Rescue Operations › Section 19-13-303 - Search and Rescue Council; Appointment; Vacancies; Compensation; Duties.

19-13-303. Search and rescue council; appointment; vacancies; compensation; duties.
(a) The Wyoming search and rescue council is established and shall consist of eleven (11) voting members. The director of the Wyoming office of homeland security or his designee shall serve as a voting member and the permanent executive secretary to the council. The governor shall appoint the remaining ten (10) members to serve four (4) year terms as follows:
(i) Three (3) county sheriffs;
(ii) One (1) county commissioner;
(iii) One (1) peace officer at large; and
(iv) Five (5) other citizens.
(b) Council members appointed by virtue of their elected positions shall resign from the council immediately upon vacating their elected office. Individuals appointed to fill council vacancies shall be appointed for the full term and shall not be appointed to serve the remainder of the unexpired portion of the term. The governor may remove any appointed council member as provided under W.S. 9-1-202.
(c) Members shall serve without compensation but shall receive mileage and per diem as provided for state employees under W.S. 9-3-102 and 9-3-103.
(d) The council shall adopt rules and regulations as necessary to administer this article.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-401 - Compact Provisions.

19-13-401. Compact provisions.
The Emergency Management Assistance Compact is enacted into law and entered into with all other jurisdictions legally joining therein in form substantially the same. W.S. 19-13-401 through 19-13-414 shall be known and may be cited as the "Emergency Management Assistance Compact."
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-402 - Purposes and Authorities.

19-13-402. Purposes and authorities.
(a) This compact is made and entered into by and between the participating member states that enact this compact, hereinafter called party states. For the purposes of this agreement, the term "states" is taken to mean the several states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia and all United States territorial possessions.
(b) The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual assistance between the states entering into this compact in managing any emergency or disaster that is duly declared by the governor of the affected state, whether arising from natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster or emergency aspects of resource shortages.
(c) This compact shall also provide for mutual cooperation in emergency-related exercises, testing or other training activities using equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of the giving and receiving of aid by party states or subdivisions of party states during emergencies for actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods. Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of the states' national guard forces, either in accordance with the National Guard Mutual Assistance Compact or by mutual agreement between states.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-403 - General Implementation.

19-13-403. General implementation.
(a) Each party state entering into this compact recognizes many emergencies transcend political jurisdictional boundaries and that intergovernmental coordination is essential in managing these and other emergencies under this compact. Each state further recognizes that there will be emergencies, which require immediate access and present procedures to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective response to an emergency. This is because few, if any, individual states have all the resources they may need in all types of emergencies or the capability of delivering resources to areas where emergencies exist.
(b) The prompt, full, and effective utilization of resources of the participating states, including any resources on hand or available from the federal government or any other source, that are essential to the safety, care and welfare of the people in the event of any emergency or disaster declared by a party state, shall be the underlying principle on which all provisions of this compact shall be understood.
(c) On behalf of the governor of each state participating in the compact, the legally designated state official who is assigned responsibility for homeland security will be responsible for formulation of the appropriate interstate mutual aid plans and procedures necessary to implement this compact.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-404 - Party State Responsibilities.

19-13-404. Party state responsibilities.
(a) It shall be the responsibility of each party state to formulate procedural plans and programs for interstate cooperation in the performance of the responsibilities listed in this section. In formulating the plans, and in carrying them out, the party states, insofar as practical, shall:
(i) Review individual state hazards analyses and, to the extent reasonably possible, determine all those potential emergencies the party states might jointly suffer, whether due to natural disaster, technological hazard, man-made disaster, emergency aspects of resource shortages, or enemy attack;
(ii) Review party states' individual homeland security plans and develop a plan, which will determine the mechanism for the interstate management and provision of assistance concerning any potential emergency;
(iii) Develop interstate procedures to fill any identified gaps and to resolve any identified inconsistencies or overlaps in existing or developed plans;
(iv) Assist in warning communities adjacent to or crossing the state boundaries;
(v) Protect and assure uninterrupted delivery of services, medicines, water, food, energy and fuel, search and rescue, and critical lifeline equipment, services and resources, both human and material;
(vi) Inventory and set procedures for the interstate loan and delivery of human and material resources, together with procedures for reimbursement or forgiveness.
(b) The authorized representative of a party state may request assistance of another party state by contacting the authorized representative of that state. The provisions of this agreement shall only apply to requests for assistance made by and to authorized representatives. Requests may be verbal or in writing. If verbal, the request shall be confirmed in writing within thirty (30) days of the verbal request. Requests shall provide the following information:
(i) A description of the emergency service function for which assistance is needed, including but not limited to fire services, law enforcement, emergency medical, transportation, communications, public works and engineering, building inspection, planning and information assistance, mass care, resource support, health and medical services and search and rescue;
(ii) The amount and type of personnel, equipment, materials and supplies needed and a reasonable estimate of the length of time they will be needed;
(iii) The specific place and time for staging of the assisting party's response and a point of contact at that location.
(c) There shall be frequent consultation between state officials who have assigned homeland security responsibilities and other appropriate representatives of the party states with affected jurisdictions and the United States government, with free exchange of information, plans and resource records relating to emergency capabilities.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-405 - Limitations.

19-13-405. Limitations.
Any party state requested to render mutual aid or conduct exercises and training for mutual aid shall take the action necessary to provide and make available the resources covered by this compact in accordance with the terms hereof; provided that it is understood that the state rendering aid may withhold resources to the extent necessary to provide reasonable protection for that state. Each party state shall afford to the emergency forces of any party state, while operating within its state limits under the terms and conditions of this compact, the same powers (except that of arrest unless specifically authorized by the receiving state), duties, rights and privileges afforded forces of the state in which they are performing emergency services. Emergency forces will continue under the command and control of their regular leaders, but the organizational units will come under the operational control of the emergency services authorities of the state receiving assistance. These conditions may be activated, as needed, only subsequent to a declaration of a state of emergency or disaster by the governor of the party state that is to receive assistance or commencement of exercises or training for mutual aid and shall continue so long as the exercises or training for mutual aid are in progress, the state of emergency or disaster remains in effect or loaned resources remain in an official capacity in the receiving state, whichever is longer.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-406 - Licenses and Permits.

19-13-406. Licenses and permits.
Whenever any person holds a license, certificate or other permit issued by any state party to the compact evidencing the meeting of qualifications for professional, mechanical or other skills, and when assistance is requested by the receiving party state, the person shall be deemed licensed, certified or permitted by the state requesting assistance to render aid involving the skill to meet a declared emergency or disaster, subject to limitations and conditions the governor of the requesting state may prescribe by executive order or otherwise.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-407 - Liability.

19-13-407. Liability.
Officers or employees of a party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be considered agents of the requesting state for tort liability and immunity purposes. Any party state or its officers or employees rendering aid in this state pursuant to this compact shall be liable for any act or omission on the part of the forces while so engaged or for the maintenance or use of any equipment or supplies in connection therewith in accordance with the provisions of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-408 - Supplementary Agreements.

19-13-408. Supplementary agreements.
If it is probable that the pattern and detail of the machinery for mutual aid among two (2) or more states may differ from that among the states that are party hereto, this instrument contains elements of a broad base common to all states, and nothing herein contained shall preclude any state from entering into supplementary agreements with another state or affect any other agreements already in force between states. Supplementary agreements may comprehend, but shall not be limited to, provisions for evacuation and reception of injured and other persons and the exchange of medical, fire, police, public utility, reconnaissance, welfare, transportation and communications personnel and equipment and supplies.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-409 - Compensation.

19-13-409. Compensation.
Each party state shall provide for the payment of compensation and death benefits to injured members of the emergency forces of that state and representatives of deceased members of the forces in case the members sustain injuries or are killed while rendering aid pursuant to this compact, in the same manner and on the same terms as if the injury or death were sustained within their own state.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-410 - Reimbursement.

19-13-410. Reimbursement.
Any party state rendering aid in another state pursuant to this compact shall be reimbursed by the party state receiving aid for any loss or damage to or expense incurred in the operation of any equipment and the provision of any service in answering a request for aid and for the costs incurred in connection with the requests; provided, that any aiding party state may assume in whole or in part the loss, damage, expense or other cost, or may loan the equipment or donate the services to the receiving party state without charge or cost; and provided further, that any two (2) or more party states may enter into supplementary agreements establishing a different allocation of costs among those states. Expenses under W.S. 19-13-409 shall not be reimbursable under this provision.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-411 - Evacuation.

19-13-411. Evacuation.
Plans for the orderly evacuation and interstate reception of portions of the civilian population as the result of any emergency or disaster of sufficient proportions to so warrant, shall be worked out and maintained between the party states and the emergency management services directors of the various jurisdictions where any type of incident requiring evacuations might occur. The plans shall be put into effect by request of the state from which evacuees come and shall include the manner of transporting the evacuees, the number of evacuees to be received in different areas, the manner in which food, clothing, housing and medical care will be provided, the registration of the evacuees, the providing of facilities for the notification of relatives or friends, and the forwarding of the evacuees to other areas or the importing of additional materials, supplies and all other relevant factors. The plans shall provide that the party state receiving evacuees and the party state from which the evacuees come shall mutually agree as to reimbursement of out-of-pocket expenses incurred in receiving and caring for the evacuees, for expenditures for transportation, food, clothing, medicines and medical care and like items. The expenditures shall be reimbursed as agreed by the party state from which the evacuees come. After the termination of the emergency or disaster, the party state from which the evacuees come shall assume the responsibility for the ultimate support of repatriation of the evacuees.
2023 Wyoming Statutes › Title 19 - Defense Forces and Affairs › Chapter 13 - Wyoming Office of Homeland Security › Article 4 - Emergency Management Assistance Compact › Section 19-13-412 - Implementation.

19-13-412. Implementation.
(a) This compact shall become operative immediately upon its enactment into law by any two (2) states; thereafter, this compact shall become effective for any other state upon its enactment by that state.
(b) Any party state may withdraw from this compact by enacting a statute repealing the same, but no withdrawal shall take effect until thirty (30) days after the governor of the withdrawing state has given notice in writing of the withdrawal to the governors of all other party states. The action shall not relieve the withdrawing state from obligations assumed hereunder prior to the effective date of withdrawal.
(c) Duly authenticated copies of this compact and of supplementary agreements entered into shall, at the time of their approval, be deposited with each of the party states and with the federal department of homeland security and other appropriate agencies of the United States government.