La. Admin. Code tit. 55 § XXI-501

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XXI-501 - Evacuation

A. The Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, in preparing and maintaining regional and statewide evacuation plans and in responding to an actual disaster or emergency, shall allocate state evacuation resources in accordance with parish compliance with the requirements of this Part, to include the following factors:

1. the parish's designation as a high-risk area or contiguous risk area;

2. the parish's geographic proximity to the weather event or disaster, in relation to other parishes in the high risk area;

3. the risk assessment prepared by the parish and municipality identifying the at-risk population and essential workers of the parish;

4. the transportation inventory prepared by the parish and municipality identifying all local modes of transportation subject to the parish president's emergency powers, and non-local modes of transportation with which the parish has executed contingency agreements for transporting its at-risk population during a mandatory evacuation;

5. the evacuation plan prepared by the parish making maximum utilization of its own local modes of transportation subject to the parish president's emergency powers for its at-risk population and essential workers;

6. whether the parish president has declared an emergency and evacuation in conjunction with requesting state evacuation assistance.

B. The state will rely on the parish's transportation inventory submitted in accordance with this Part for planning purposes and, when requested by the parish, use its best efforts to supplement the parish's evacuation assets with state evacuation resources. However, for a disaster or emergency in which a parish requests state or federal evacuation assistance to support an evacuation, the parish's request for state evacuation assistance shall serve as acknowledgement of the parish's responsibility for that portion of the nonfederal share of the evacuation costs allocable to the services provided by the state to that parish. All costs associated with the evacuation services provided by the state shall be allocated to the parish unless otherwise determined by the commissioner of the Division of Administration.

La. Admin. Code tit. 55, § XXI-501

Promulgated by the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, LR 38:51 (January 2012).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 29:725.