The Military Department (Department), under the direction of the state's Adjutant General, is responsible for administering a comprehensive emergency management program for the state. ?Each political subdivision of the state must establish or jointly create a local organization for carrying out emergency management functions in accordance with the state's Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan.

?

The Adjutant General is required to administer a state program for emergency assistance to individuals who are victims of a natural, technological, or human-caused disaster. ?The emergency assistance program may include grants, loans, gifts of services, equipment, supplies, or funds to individuals who need assistance and who meet certain eligibility standards.

The Adjutant General is authorized to administer a program for emergency assistance to county governments and federally recognized tribal governments?that experience or respond to public infrastructure damage due to a natural, technological, or human-caused disaster.

?

The Department may initiate rule making to address the distribution of funds from county governments to recipients within the county.

?

"Public infrastructure assistance" is generally defined to mean supplementary state assistance provided to county governments and federally recognized tribal governments when authorized under an emergency proclamation of the Governor for the cost of disaster-related public property debris removal, emergency protective measures to protect life and property, and permanent repair work to damaged or destroyed public infrastructure.