activity severe enough to constitute a disaster. If the agency determines that precipitation
that may result from weather modification operations, either by itself or in conjunction
with other precipitation or climatic conditions or activity, would create or contribute to
the severity of a disaster, it shall direct the officer or agency empowered to issue permits
for weather modification operation to suspend the issuance of the permits, and thereupon
no permits may be issued until the agency informs the officer or agency that the danger
has passed.
Source: Laws 1973, LB 494, sec. 10.
81-829.46. Civil Defense Agency; political subdivisions; suspension; Governor; di-
rector; salary; powers; duties; performance of functions.
(1) Each political subdivision within this state shall be within the jurisdiction of and
served by the state Civil Defense Agency and by a local or interjurisdictional civil defense
organization which is headed by a director or coordinator who shall devote full time his
duties, or shall be served by a part-time director or coordinator who has a full-time
assistant or deputy who shall be qualified as set forth in subsection (5) of this section.
(2) Each county shall maintain a civil defense agency or participate in a local or
interjurisdictional civil defense agency which, except as otherwise provided under the
provisions of sections 81-829.36 to 81-829.68, has jurisdiction over and serves the entire
county. Each city and village which is desirous of establishing a civil defense organization
may do so in accordance with the state civil defense plan and program. Each such local or
interjurisdictional civil defense organization shall have a director who shall be appointed
by the governing body or bodies of such government or governments, and who shall have
direct responsibility for the organization, administration, and operation of such local
organization for civil defense, subject to the direction and control of the governing body
or bodies of the political subdivision or subdivisions concerned. The director of any
country civil defense organization may also be appointed director for any city or village
within such county, and the director of any city or village civil defense organization may
also be appointed county director. Each local or interjurisdictional organization for civil
defense shall perform civil defense functions within the territorial limits of the political
subdivision or subdivisions within which it is organized, except that the interjurisdiction-
al and county organizations for civil defense shall perform no civil defense functions
within the limits of a county or city which are already being performed by such county or
city civil defense organizations, unless the approval of the respective county or city civil
defense director be first obtained.
(3) The Governor may determine that some cities need civil defense organizations or
agencies of their own. He/she shall, after making such determination, require that such
civil defense organizations be established and maintained by issuing a directive in the
form of a rule or regulation. He shall make his determination on the basis of a city's
disaster vulnerability and capability of response related to population size and concentra-
tion. The civil defense agency of a county shall cooperate with the civil defense agencies
of cities within the county but shall not have jurisdiction within a city having its own civil
defense agency. The state Civil Defense Agency shall publish and keep current a list of
cities required to have civil Defense agencies.
(4) Any provision of sections 81-829.36 to 81-829.68 or other law to the contrary not-
withstanding, the Governor may require a local government to establish and maintain a
civil defense agency and organization jointly with one or more contiguous local govern-
ments, if he/she finds that the establishment and maintenance of an agency or participa-
tion therein is made necessary by circumstances or conditions that make it unusually
difficult to provide disaster prevention, preparedness, response, or recovery services
under the other provisions of sections 81-829.36 to 81-829.68. Such interjurisdictional
agencies shall be organized generally in accord with the Interlocal Cooperation Act and
pursuant to the provisions of section 84-143.
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