The Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security must plan, manage, and integrate the County’s emergency management and homeland security programs. The Office must:
(a) undertake emergency management and disaster preparedness planning, and coordinate response and recovery operations to a disaster;
(b) coordinate homeland security intelligence programs in conjunction with the Police, Sheriff, and other local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies and disease surveillance systems of public health;
(c) manage the interdepartmental governance of the Public Safety Communications Center (PSCC) and the Alternate Public Safety Communications Center (APSCC);
(d) facilitate the integration of policies and procedures on homeland security, emergency management, and preparedness with the Fire and Rescue Service; Police; Health and Human Services; Transportation; Environmental Protection; the Sheriff; and other County government departments and public agencies as necessary;
(e) coordinate community outreach and volunteer support of emergency preparedness and homeland security;
(f) coordinate the County’s homeland security and emergency preparedness programs with federal, state, regional, local, County, and municipal agencies, including the Housing Opportunities Commission, Montgomery College, Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission, Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority, and utilities and telecommunications companies doing business in the County;
(g) develop, coordinate, and manage state and federal grants relating to homeland security and emergency preparedness, response, and recovery; and
(h) undertake related functions designated by the County Executive. (, § 1; , § 1.)
Editor’s note—, §§ 3 and 5, state:
Sec. 3. Any regulation in effect when this Act takes effect that implements a function transferred to another Department or Office under Section 1 of this Act continues in effect, but any reference in any regulation to the Department from which the function was transferred must be treated as referring to the Department to which the function is transferred. The transfer of a function under this Act does not affect any right of a party to any legal proceeding begun before this Act took effect.
Sec. 5. Any responsibility or right granted by law, ordinance, regulation, delegation of authority, contract, or other document to the Department of Homeland Security is transferred to the Office of Emergency Management and Homeland Security.
