Sec. 418.102.  COUNTY PROGRAMS.  (a)  Each county shall maintain an emergency management program or participate in a local or interjurisdictional emergency management program that, except as otherwise provided by this chapter, has jurisdiction over and serves the entire county or interjurisdictional area.
(a-1)  An emergency management program required by Subsection (a) and maintained by a county, or in which a county participates, must provide for catastrophic debris management.
(b)  The county program is the first channel through which a municipal corporation or a joint board shall request assistance when its resources are exceeded.  Requests that exceed the county capability shall be forwarded to the state as prescribed in the state emergency management plan.
Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 147, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 1987.  Amended by Acts 1997, 75th Leg., ch. 992, Sec. 10, eff. Sept. 1, 1997;  Acts 2003, 78th Leg., ch. 33, Sec. 2, eff. May 14, 2003.
Amended by: 
Acts 2019, 86th Leg., R.S., Ch. 1018 (H.B. 6), Sec. 3, eff. September 1, 2019.