As used in this chapter, “emergency” shall mean the actual or threatened existence of conditions of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within this city caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot or earthquake, or other conditions, including conditions resulting from war or imminent threat of war, but other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are or are likely to be beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of this city, requiring the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.

(a) “City operational area” means all areas within the city limits of the city.

(b) “Local emergency” means the duly proclaimed existence of disaster or of extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of the city, caused by such conditions as air pollution, fire, flood, storm, epidemic, riot, earthquake or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy, which conditions are, or are likely to be, beyond the control of the services, personnel, equipment and facilities of the city, and require the combined forces of other political subdivisions to combat.

(c) “State of emergency” means, when duly proclaimed by the governor or the director of the office of emergency services, the 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, earthquake or other conditions, other than conditions resulting from a labor controversy or conditions causing a “state of war emergency,” which conditions, 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.

(d) “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.

(e) “Emergency plan” means the emergency service plan for the city shall be known as Oroville’s multihazard functional emergency plan. (Ord. No. 1510, § 2 (part).)