Vermont § 1 - Purpose and policy

§ 1. Purpose and policy

• (a) Because of the increasing possibility of the occurrence of disasters or emergencies
  of unprecedented size and destructiveness resulting from all-hazards and in order
  to ensure that preparation of this State will be adequate to deal with such disasters
  or emergencies; to provide for the common defense; to protect the public peace, health,
  and safety; and to preserve the lives and property of the people of the State, it
  is found and declared to be necessary: (1) to create a State emergency management agency, and to authorize the creation of local
  and regional organizations for emergency management; (2) to confer upon the Governor and upon the executive heads or legislative branches of
  the towns and cities of the State the emergency powers provided pursuant to this chapter; (3) to provide for the rendering of mutual aid among the towns and cities of the State;
  with other states and Canada; and with the federal government with respect to the
  carrying out of emergency management functions; and (4) to authorize the establishment of organizations and to carry out the provisions of
  this chapter as necessary and appropriate. (b) It is further declared to be the purpose of this chapter and the policy of the State
  that all emergency management functions of this State be coordinated to the maximum
  extent with the comparable functions of the federal government including its various
  departments and agencies, of other states and localities, and of private agencies
  of every type, to the end that the most effective preparation and use may be made
  of the nation’s resources and facilities for dealing with any emergencies resulting
  from all-hazards. (Amended 1989, No. 252 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 2005, No. 209 (Adj. Sess.), § 2; 2021, No. 20, § 111; 2023, No. 143 (Adj. Sess.), § 25, eff. July 1, 2024.)