FIRST REGULAR SESSION
[PERFECTED]
92ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY REPRESENTATIVES MERIDETH AND SHOEMAKER (8) (Co-sponsors).
Read 1st time January 29, 2003, and copies ordered printed.
Read 2nd time January 30, 2003, and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs January 30, 2003.
Reported from the Committee on Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs March 6, 2003, with recommendation that the bill Do Pass by Consent.
Perfected by Consent March 14, 2003.
STEPHEN S. DAVIS, Chief Clerk
AN ACT
To repeal section 44.090, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof one new section relating to mutual-aid agreements.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the state of Missouri, as follows:
Section A. Section 44.090, RSMo, is repealed and one new section enacted in lieu thereof, to be known as section 44.090, to read as follows:
44.090. 1. The executive officer of any political subdivision[, with the approval of the governor,] may enter into mutual-aid arrangements or agreements with other public and private agencies within and without the state for reciprocal emergency aid. Such arrangements or agreements shall be consistent with the state disaster plan and program and the provisions of section 70.837, RSMo, and section 320.090, RSMo. In time of emergency it shall be the duty of each local organization for emergency management to render assistance in accordance with the provisions of such mutual-aid arrangements or agreements.
2. The coordinator of each local organization for emergency management may assist in negotiation of reciprocal mutual-aid agreements between [his] the coordinator's organization and other public and private agencies and between the governor and the adjoining states or political subdivisions thereof, and shall carry out arrangements or agreements relating to the local unit.