State of Emergency
Known as the California Emergency Services Act
The act spans §§ 8550–8669 (245 sections).
Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Farmers Ins. Exchange v. State of California (1985)
Most recently applied in 190 Cal. App. 4th 1502 - Jacobs Farm/Del Cabo, Inc. v. Western Farm Service, Inc. (December 2010)
Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1454.
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Governor is hereby empowered to proclaim a state of emergency in an area affected or likely to be affected thereby when:
(a) He finds that circumstances described in subdivision (b) of Section 8558 exist; and either
(b) He is requested to do so (1) in the case of a city by the mayor or chief executive, (2) in the case of a county by the chairman of the board of supervisors or the county administrative officer; or
(c) He finds that local authority is inadequate to cope with the emergency.
Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.