Local emergencies: port districts.

Existing law authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, or a designated official, to declare a local emergency, as defined, when specified conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property exist within the territorial limits of a city, county, or city and county. Existing law requires the governing body to review the need for continuing the local emergency at least once every 60 days until the governing body terminates the local emergency. Existing law establishes various types of districts charged with specified duties within the Harbors and Navigation Code, including harbor improvement districts, harbor districts, port districts, river port districts, and small craft harbor districts. This bill would revise the definition of a local emergency to include conditions of disaster or extreme peril to the safety of persons and property within the territorial limits of a district established under the Harbors and Navigation Code and would authorize a port district to declare a local emergency on the same basis as a city, county, or city and county. The bill would require review of a local emergency by the governing body, as described above, to occur at least once every 30, rather than 60, days. The bill would also provide legislative findings in support of these provisions.