(1) "Advisory board" means the emergency management advisory board established pursuant to SCC 2.36.100.

(2) "Coordinating committee" means the emergency management coordinating committee established pursuant to SCC 2.36.085.

(3) "County personnel system" means those statements of policy and procedure contained in Title 3A SCC and amendments thereto.

(4) "Department" means the Snohomish County department of emergency management.

(5) "Director" means the director of the Snohomish County department of emergency management.

(6) "Emergency or disaster" means an event or set of circumstances which (a) demands immediate action to preserve public health, protect life, protect public property, or to provide relief to any stricken community overtaken by such occurrences, or (b) reaches such a dimension or degree of destructiveness as to warrant the executive to proclaim a state of emergency pursuant to this chapter and/or the governor declaring a state of emergency pursuant to RCW 43.06.010.

(7) "Emergency management" means the preparation for and the carrying out of all emergency functions, other than functions for which military forces are primarily responsible, to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from emergencies and disasters, and to aid victims suffering from injury or damage, resulting from disasters caused by all hazards, whether natural, technological, or human caused, and to provide support for search and rescue operations for persons and property in distress pursuant to the provisions of chapter 38.52 RCW.

(8) "Executive head" and "executive heads" means the county executive and in the case of cities and towns, it means the mayor in those cities and towns with a mayor-council or commission form of government where the mayor is directly elected, and it means the city manager in those cities and towns with a council-manager form of government. In the case of tribes, "executive head" means the tribal chairperson.

(9) "Exempt personnel system" means the conditions of employment under the provisions of chapter 3.68 SCC and amendments thereto.

(10) "Immediate aftermath" means the period of time immediately following an emergency or disaster during which emergency responders can reasonably expect to save lives or property. (Added by § 2 of Res. adopted Mar. 31, 1958; Amended by Res. 80-136A § 1, Apr. 28, 1980; Amended by Ord. 02-104, Jan. 8, 2003, Eff date Jan. 20, 2003; Amended by Ord. 05-123, Nov. 9, 2005, Eff date Jan. 1, 2006; Amended by Amended Ord. 19-027, July 10, 2019, Eff date July 28, 2019).