Minnesota Emergency Management Act
Minnesota · Emergency Management · §§ 12.01 to 12.61 · 37 sections
Overview
The act establishes a statewide framework for preparing for, responding to, and recovering from disasters and other emergencies, placing administration with a state emergency management agency headed by a director responsible for a comprehensive emergency management plan and related statewide programs, advised by an emergency management council, and vesting the governor with general emergency powers. It authorizes political subdivisions to establish local and joint local emergency management organizations, and provides for mutual aid and interlocal agreements, acceptance of outside aid and funding, dedicated disaster response and hazard mitigation accounts, and the use of existing public services, facilities, and personnel during an emergency. It also governs liability arising from emergency work, granting immunity to participating governments, their employees, and covered volunteers, and creates an administrative claims and compensation system, including compensation boards, that generally serves as the exclusive remedy for injury or death suffered in emergency management activities.
Editorial summary generated from the text of this act. It is not part of the statute — read the sections below for the operative language.
In the courts
Sections of this act have been cited in 13 court decisions.
Most-cited authority: 350 F.3d 247 - Thames Shipyard and Repair Company v. United States
Sections covered
- Minn. Stat. § 12.01CITATION.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.02POLICY DECLARATION.2 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 12.03DEFINITIONS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.04DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.09DUTIES OF DIVISION OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.11STATE DIRECTOR; PERSONNEL.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.13NUCLEAR POWER PLANT EMERGENCY RESPONSE PLANNING.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.14ASSESSMENT FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY PREPAREDNESS ACT.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.21GOVERNOR.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 12.22ASSISTANCE, ACCEPTANCE, RULES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.221MINNESOTA NATURAL DISASTER ASSISTANCE.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.23FACILITIES, UTILIZATION.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.24REGIONAL DISASTER OFFICES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.25LOCAL ORGANIZATIONS; DIRECTORS, DUTIES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.26POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS; TAXATION, APPROPRIATIONS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.27MUTUAL AID, ARRANGEMENTS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.28GOVERNOR'S ORDERS, RULES; ENFORCEMENT.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.29DECLARATION OF LOCAL EMERGENCY.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 12.301COMMUNITY DISASTER LOANS; GOVERNOR'S AUTHORITY.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.31NATIONAL SECURITY OR PEACETIME EMERGENCY; DECLARATION.2 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 12.32GOVERNOR'S ORDERS AND RULES, EFFECT.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 12.33ASSISTANCE BETWEEN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.331LOCAL ASSISTANCE BETWEEN POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.34ASSISTANCE REQUIRED; COMPENSATION FOR PROPERTY TAKEN; PENALTY.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.35ACTIVATING EMERGENCY RESPONSE PERSONNEL.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.351SPECIALIZED EMERGENCY RESPONSE TEAM.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.36GOVERNOR'S POWERS TO FAST PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.37POLITICAL SUBDIVISION'S POWERS TO FAST PROVIDE EMERGENCY AID.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.38STATE AGENCIES; TEMPORARY WAIVER OF FEES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.381SAFE DISPOSITION OF DEAD HUMAN BODIES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.39INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT; NOTICE, REFUSAL, CONSEQUENCE.1 cite
- Minn. Stat. § 12.42OUT-OF-STATE LICENSE HOLDERS; POWERS, DUTIES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.43SUBVERSIVES; HIRING, USING; OATH.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.44POLITICAL ACTIVITIES.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.45VIOLATIONS, PENALTIES.3 cites
- Minn. Stat. § 12.46LIMITATION OF POWERS.
- Minn. Stat. § 12.61TEMPORARY MEDICAL CARE FACILITIES; LIABILITY.
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