SB 187 - AS INTRODUCED
2003 SESSION
08/09
SENATE BILL 187
This bill directs local governments to designate a local emergency management director, and provides for the police chief of each municipality to serve as the default director in the absence of such formal designation.
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03-1156
08/09
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Three
AN ACT relative to designating local emergency management directors.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
1 New Section; Local Emergency Management Directors. Amend RSA 21-P by inserting after section 51 the following new section:
21-P:52 Local Emergency Management Directors. Every municipality within the state shall annually designate a local emergency management director as a liaison who shall be responsible for coordinating emergency management efforts with the state office of emergency management. Absent formal designation by the municipalities, the police chief of each municipality shall be the default designee. The county sheriff shall be the emergency management director in unincorporated areas.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect 60 days after its passage.