Sec. 6-104. Emergency power and authority of County Executive over emergency management
Codified through Bill No. CB-018-2026, adopted May 12, 2026, effective July 24, 2026. Source: Municode, Supplement 2026 Update 2. Editorial notes and legislative history omitted.
Prince George's County, Md., Code § 6-104 (2026)
Sec. 6-104. Emergency power and authority of County Executive over emergency managementLinkCopy Citation
(a)
The County Executive may exercise the emergency power and authority as specified in this Subtitle.
(b)
Under the following circumstances, the County Executive may assemble and utilize the emergency management forces and may prescribe the manner and condition of their use:
(1)
Whenever, on the basis of information received from authoritative sources, the County Executive feels that an attack in the County or an emergency is impending or imminent;
(2)
During any period of attack or emergency in the County, and thereafter so long as the County Executive deems it necessary.
(c)
During any period when attack or emergency in the County is imminent or when the County has been subjected to attack or emergency, the County Executive may promulgate such reasonable regulations as he deems necessary to protect life and property and preserve critical resources. Such regulations may include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1)
Regulations prohibiting or restricting the movement of vehicles in order to facilitate the mass movement of persons from critical areas of the County;
(2)
Regulations pertaining to the movement of persons from areas deemed to be hazardous or vulnerable to attack or emergency;
(3)
Regulations designed to lessen the hazards to property and citizens from attack or emergency.
(d)
The County Executive shall order emergency management forces to the aid of other communities in accordance with the Statutes of the State. The County Executive may request the State, or political subdivisions of the State, to send aid to the County in case of natural disaster or in case of disaster resulting from attack or emergency when conditions in the County are beyond the control of the local emergency management forces.
(e)
When obtaining formal approval would result in delay of attack-relief activity, the County Executive may, until the Council convenes, waive procedures and formalities otherwise required pertaining to the performance of public works, entering into contracts, the incurring of obligations, the employment of temporary workers, the rental of equipment, the purchase and distribution of supplies, materials and facilities, and expenditures of existing funds. The Council is also empowered to waive any such procedures and formalities.
(f)
Whenever the County Executive finds that any condition in the County has attained, or threatens to attain, the proportions of a natural disaster, the County Executive may assemble and utilize emergency management forces and may prescribe the manner and conditions of their use. The County Executive, when deemed in the public interest, may send emergency management forces of the County to the aid of other communities stricken by natural disaster when such disaster is affecting the health, welfare or security of the stricken community; provided, that after the County Council convenes, the further continuance of any such natural disaster relief and the period thereof, shall be subject to the action of the County Council.
(g)
The County Executive may make regulations permitting the conduct of practice air raid alerts or tests of the Emergency Management Organization. Such regulations shall be filed with the County Council and shall be binding upon the emergency management forces.