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| The International Emergency Management Assistance Compact, | referred to in this chapter as the "compact," is made and entered | into by and between the participating member jurisdictions that | enact this compact, referred to in this chapter as "party | jurisdictions."__The following states and provinces are eligible to | become members of this compact:__Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, | New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, New Hampshire, Nova | Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Rhode Island and Vermont. |
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| | The purpose of this compact is to provide for mutual | assistance between the party jurisdictions entering into this | compact in managing any emergency or disaster when the governor | or premier of the affected jurisdiction or jurisdictions asks for | assistance, whether arising from natural disaster, technological | hazard, man-made disaster or civil emergency aspects of resource | shortages. |
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| | This compact also provides for mutual cooperation in emergency | related exercises, testing or other training activities using | equipment and personnel simulating performance of any aspect of | the giving and receiving of aid by party jurisdictions or | subdivisions of party jurisdictions during emergencies, with such | actions occurring outside actual declared emergency periods.__ | Mutual assistance in this compact may include the use of | emergency forces by mutual agreement between the party | jurisdictions. |
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| §936.__General implementation - Article II |
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| | Each party jurisdiction entering into this compact recognizes | that many emergencies transcend political jurisdictional | boundaries and that intergovernmental coordination is essential | in managing these and other emergencies under this compact.__Each | party jurisdiction further recognizes that there will be | emergencies that require immediate access and present procedures | to apply outside resources to make a prompt and effective | response to such an emergency because few, if any, individual | party jurisdictions have all the resources they need in all types | of emergencies or the capability of delivering resources to areas | where emergencies exist. |
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| | The prompt, full and effective utilization of resources of the | participating party jurisdictions, including any resources on | hand or available from any other source that are essential to the | safety, care and welfare of the people in the event of any | emergency or disaster declared by a party jurisdiction, must be | the underlying principle on which all articles of this compact | are understood. |
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