Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4501:3 - Emergency Management Agency › Chapter 4501:3-6 - Emergency Operation Plans › Section 4501:3-6-01 - Emergency operations plans and exercises

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) Each local emergency management agency
			 shall be responsible for maintaining current its emergency operations plan, by
			 reviewing and updating it annually. Each emergency operations plan shall be
			 authorized by the chief executive officer and shall be consistent with
			 published federal and state guidance and emergency operations plans.
(B) Any political subdivision within a county
			 which forms its own emergency management agency as required by section
			 5502.271
			 of the Revised Code shall submit its emergency operations plan to the county
			 agency as required by section
			 5502.26
			 of the Revised Code or to the regional authority formed under section
			 5502.27
			 of the Revised Code, or the county emergency management agency formed under
			 section
			 5502.271
			 of the Revised Code for the county in which the political subdivision is
			 located, for initial review and annual review every year thereafter. Said
			 county agency, countywide agency, or regional authority may establish
			 procedures for the review of said local plans.
(C) Each political subdivision shall be
			 responsible for maintaining current its emergency operations plan and shall
			 keep its plan consistent with the emergency operations plan of a county under
			 section
			 5502.271
			 of the Revised Code, a countywide agency formed under section
			 5502.26
			 of the Revised Code, or a regional authority formed under section
			 5502.27
			 of the Revised Code, for the county in which the political subdivision is
			 located.
(D) A political
			 subdivision that is not a part of a countywide agency formed under section
			 5502.26
			 of the Revised Code, or a regional authority formed under section
			 5502.27
			 of the Revised Code, or has not entered into a contract with a county agency
			 formed under section
			 5502.271
			 of the Revised Code, cannot be a multijurisdictional agency. The director of
			 the agency of the political subdivision will serve only the political
			 subdivision for which appointed. Said agency and its director shall have no
			 authority to coordinate multijurisdictional planning or actual hazard response
			 beyond the boundary of the political subdivision for which it was formed with
			 the exception of mutual aid agreements established pursuant to section
			 5502.29
			 of the Revised Code.
(E) Each local
			 emergency management agency shall participate in the state's annual
			 multi-year training and exercise planning
			 workshop. As such, each county is required to provide to the state emergency
			 management agency, in accordance with the state's instruction on the matter, a
			 listing of scheduled or desired training and exercise events relevant to the
			 jurisdiction's emergency operations plan and the evaluation of preparedness for
			 identified hazards and risks within the political subdivision covered by the
			 emergency operations plan.
(F) The
			 Ohio emergency management agency will conduct a comprehensive county emergency
			 operations plans review, identifying gaps and planning
			 considerations on  emergency
			 measures that are essential for protecting the public, once every four years.
			 Assistance will be provided upon request of the local
			 jurisdiction to ensure adherence to the requirement for
			  emergency operations plan
			 maintenance.