BILL NUMBER: AB 486	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2009

   An act to amend Section 8630 of the Government Code, relating to
local emergencies.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 486, as introduced, Chesbro. Local government: emergencies.
   Existing law requires a governing body of a city, county, or city
and county that declared a local emergency to review the need for
continuing the local emergency at its regularly scheduled meetings,
but at least every 21 days, or, if the governing body meets weekly,
to review the need for continuing the local emergency at least every
14 days, until the local emergency is terminated.
   This bill would eliminate the distinction between a governing body
that meets weekly and nonweekly, and require any governing body to
review the continuing need for a local emergency at least once every
30 days until the local emergency is terminated.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 8630 of the Government Code is amended to read:

   8630.  (a) A local emergency may be proclaimed only by the
governing body of a city, county, or city and county, or by an
official designated by ordinance adopted by that governing body.
   (b) Whenever a local emergency is proclaimed by an official
designated by ordinance, the local emergency shall not remain in
effect for a period in excess of seven days unless it has been
ratified by the governing body.
   (c)  (1)    The governing body
shall review  , at its regularly scheduled meetings until the
local emergency is terminated,  the need for continuing the
local emergency  . However, in no event shall a review take
place more than 21 days after the previous review.   at
least once every 30 days until the governing body terminates the
local emergency.  
   (2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), if the governing body meets
weekly, it shall review the need for continuing the local emergency
at least every 14 days, until the local emergency is terminated.

   (d) The governing body shall proclaim the termination of the local
emergency at the earliest possible date that conditions warrant.