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. Three conditions or degrees of emergency are established by
this chapter:
(a) "State of war emergency" means the condition which exists
immediately, with or without a proclamation thereof by the Governor,
whenever this state or nation is attacked by an enemy of the United
States, or upon receipt by the state of a warning from the federal
government indicating that such an enemy attack is probable or
imminent.
(b) "State of emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of
conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons
and property within the state caused by such conditions as air
pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and
severe energy shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the
Governor's warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an
earthquake, or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from
a labor controversy or conditions causing a "state of war emergency,"
which, by reason of their magnitude, are or are likely to be beyond
the control of the services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of
any single county, city and county, or city and require the combined
forces of a mutual aid region or regions to combat, or with respect
to regulated energy utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage
requires extraordinary measures beyond the authority vested in the
California Public Utilities Commission.
(c) "Local emergency" means the duly proclaimed existence of
conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons
and property within the territorial limits of a county, city and
county, or city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire,
flood, storm, epidemic, riot, drought, sudden and severe energy
shortage, plant or animal infestation or disease, the Governor's
warning of an earthquake or volcanic prediction, or an earthquake, or
other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor
controversy, which are or are likely to be beyond the control of the
services, personnel, equipment, and facilities of that political
subdivision and require the combined forces of other political
subdivisions to combat, or with respect to regulated energy
utilities, a sudden and severe energy shortage requires extraordinary
measures beyond the authority vested in the California Public
Utilities Commission.